Between 27th May and 30th May 2010 an international field exercise took place in the southern part of Styria/Austria. Two multinational Technical Assitance and Support Teams - TAST(German Johanniter and Cyprus Civil Defense) were tested according to their project tasks - support of an European Civil Protection Team in the field. This included set up of an On Site Operations Coordination Centre, IT support, Subsitence support, Transport support etc. Also assessments were conducted along the Austrian-Slovenian border - on both sides- with a meeting of the Slovenian Civil Protection. The exercise was also observed by international experts in disaster management - all together people from 10 differnet countries were present. After this Field Exercise they are now able to be deployed worldwide. More see also: Government of Styria: land-st-homepage.pdf  ; Die Woche: die-woche.pdf ; All documents of the project: http://www.eutac-project.eu/downloads.html  

Between 27th May 2010 and 30th May 2010 there will be held a Field Exercise for the European Technical Assistance Cooperation (consisting of german and cypriot members) in the southern part of Styria and northern part of Slovenia. The aim of the exercise is to train and test a European Technical Assitance and Support Team (TAST) to support of European Civil Protection Teams during their field missions on site of a disaster. 8-eutac-pressemeldung.pdf