Hostile Environment Awareness Training
Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is an intensive five-day course aimed at training professionals to deal effectively with high-risk and emergency situations while deployed in hostile environments abroad.
The training is expected to improve participants' understanding of the minimum behavioral field requirements when working as a team member of an international field operation regardless of their national or professional background.
The course is designed to:
- Improve participants knowledge of various threats in hostile field environments and to learn how to deal with them in an effective manner;
- Rehearse and practice safety and security procedures according to specific threats;
- Develop individual skills to deal with different stressful situations;
- Develop group dynamics to deal with multiple stressful situations.
Target group and minimum requisites: personnel already working or contracted/seconded to work in an international field operation. Participants are strongly advised to have a valid driving licence which must be brought to the training in order to drive 4x4 vehicles for training purposes.
Implementing Partners
Lead implementing body: Crisis Management Centre (CMC), Finland.
Other partner implementing bodies: Centre for European Perspective (CEP), Slovenia;
Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Sweden.
Date and Location
18-23 August 2013, Finland.
Registration Fee
There is no registration fee for the course.
Please note that accommodations and board will be covered by ENTRi for all participants. Please note that travel costs are generally not covered for HEAT courses. Applicants who are unable to cover their own travel costs for HEAT courses may apply for additional funding with adequate justification. The reimbursement of travel costs is subject to individual review and participants are not entitled to the reimbursement of travel costs.
Application
Please apply using the ENTRi database.
Please apply by 07 July 2013.
