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Portugal. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Director of European Center on Urban Risks (CERU), presented the Baywatch project, “Involving sales and tourism agents in earthquake and tsunami mitigation measures”. The upcoming projects will deal with risks at beaches and coastal resorts. ▇▇▇▇-Sever ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Director of the European Centre for Rehabilitation of Buildings (ECRB), explained that in 2017 no funds were used from EUR-OPA. Nevertheless they continued their work in the field of earthquakes. The upcoming projects will look into earthquake preparedness. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, European centre for New Technologies of Risk Management (ECNTRM), stated that all the projects carried out by them are discussed and accepted beforehand by the government. This guarantees the implementation of its results and bringing about changes in the legislation. The centre calculates rates and scales of emergencies, looking at warning systems and calculating risks through automated monitoring algorithms. Another project is on raising awareness of risk reduction. The upcoming projects aim to engage the population through internet portals: specific templates would be used for certain threats, only when filled in correctly will these templates be followed up. The Secretariat recalled the importance of creating tools and applications (e.g. for smartphones) in addition to brochures and leaflets for local people. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ introduced the work of the European Natural Disasters Training Centre (AFEM), providing support to 3.2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey. She explained the different training models carried out in the respective protection centres. The upcoming projects aim to strengthen the role of authorities in building disaster resilient communities and to produce a film on disaster and disabilities. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Director, European Centre of Technological Safety (TESEC), introduced the Ukrainian national public emergency plan for the general public. He then presented the upcoming project, which aims to identify good governance practices in the management of nuclear disasters and cross-border technology. ▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ introduced the work the European Centre for Seismic and Geomorphological Hazards (CERG) is carrying out in mapping, in order to contribute to the prevention in the European Landslide Susceptibility Map ELSUS. Furthermore, they contribute to the nucleus of a European Landslide Inventory. The upcoming project intends to initiate the creation of a continental Europe and Southern Mediterranean landslide susceptibility map also including South East Europe. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ introduced the project run by the State Hospital to help migrants use technological tools, such as a smartphone app android. The work in the upcoming years will aim to further develop these tools, preventing biological, chemical and nuclear disasters through an integrated territorial training project for disaster situations. After informing participants about the 2017 Programme of activities progress and accomplishments, and the project proposals prepared by the directors of the specialised centres for 2018-2019, the participants took note of the presentations of the new project proposals and discussed these. This enabled the Permanent Correspondents to gain more insight into the projects run by the specialised centres.