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A period of learning. This is how EMRIC looks back on its second policy period. Curious about what we have done in the past five years to make the Meuse-Rhine Euregion a safer place? You can read it here in our report.

EMRIC was a guest this year at the Three Countries Festival in Herzogenrath!

EMRIC blows out 10 candles this year! But that's not all! We're actually celebrating a triple anniversary because our history goes back much further. Discover here what you can expect on the occasion of this special event.

This morning, EMRIC organized a Euregional control room exercise at the Emergency Dispatch Center 112 in Hasselt (Belgium). This helps to ensure that we are better prepared when a real emergency situation arises!

On March 20, 2024, the annual meeting of N4 took place at the Gouvernement in Maastricht. EMRIC is a member of N4 and was invited to present the EMRIC cooperation as one of the collaboration concepts along the German-Dutch border.

Last week, EMRIC organized a cross-border dispatch center exercise in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion.

Discover how we work together with numerous partners from the Meuse-Rhine Euregion on finding solutions to better protect citizens against flood risks.

Cross-border cooperation facilitated by EMRIC during wildfire in the High Fens.

German firefighter Tino recently participated in a one-day internship with his Dutch colleagues from Kerkrade. You can read his experiences here.

On 16 and 17 March, the trilateral conference 'Connecting' took place in Assen. The conference was about disaster management and crisis management in the border area between the Netherlands and the German Länder of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. As lead partner of the @Marhetak project, EMRIC was allowed to supervise two workshops.

Recently, EMRIC brought together several Dutch, Belgian and German partners in order to pursue additional reflection on the use of the Paragon security portal.

On December 7th and 15th, the Veiligheidsregio Zuid-Limburg organized an informal meeting for their EMRIC partners in Maastricht for the operational leaders of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion.

The Veiligheidsregio Zuid-Limburg, one of the members of the EMRIC partnership, has invited its Belgian and German colleagues to follow a crisis staff exercise.

Maastricht University, Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute, published an editorial in the Journal of Public Health, where EMRIC is mentioned as an outstanding example for cross border cooperation.