HEAT
Hostile Environment Awareness Training
18 August 2013 - 23 August 2013
Finland
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.
ENTRi Certification
This course has been certified by ENTRi. For more information on the ENTRi certification process, please click here.
