Hostile Environment Awareness Training

"Hostile Environment Awareness Training" (HEAT) is an intensive five days course aiming to train professionals to deal effectively with risks-associated and emergency / critical situations while deployed in hostile environments abroad.

The training is expected to align participants understanding of the minimum required behavioral field requirements when confronted as an individual or a team member staff of an international field  operation whatever his/her national or professional background could be.

The Course is designed to:

  • improve participants knowledge about multiple threats present in hostile field environments and to learn how to deal with them in an effective manner;
  • rehearse and practice safety and security procedures accordingly with the specific threat;
  • trigger individual skill dealing with different stressful situations;
  • trigger group dynamics dealing 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 a 4x4 vehicles for training purposes.

 

Implementing Partners

Centre for European Perspective (CEP), Slovenia

 

E-Learning Components

All participants admitted to attend the Course must register and finalise the online Course e-HEST available, free of charge, at: https://ehest.consilium.europa.eu/login/index.php.

Please bring to the course the Certificate confirming that you did pass the online course. Please be aware that this is a prerequisite to allow you to attend the course.

 

Date and Location

19 – 23 November 2012; Police Training Centre Gotenica, Slovenia

 

Registration Fee

Short-listed candidates will have to pay a registration fee of 100 EUR to secure their seat in the course.

 

Application

Please apply using the ENTRi database

Deadline for applications: 07.10.2012

 


 last update: 11 October 2012