Hellenic Rescue Team, along with other 28 European partners, 4 of which are from Greece, is participating in the project “Search and Rescue”, which is led by the National Technical University of Athens and is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Hellenic Rescue Team, along with 15 partners from Greece, Europe and South Korea, participates in the European project PathoCERT (Pathogen Contamination Emergency Response Technologies)

Forest fires are exacerbated by extreme weather conditions, which are increasing both in frequency and in magnitude due to climate change effects. Globally, massive fires have swept through forests and other landscapes in an alarming rate, resulting in the loss of human lives, destruction of homes and biodiversity, and emitting millions of tons of CO2 together with other pollutants in addition to other destructive impacts.

After 14 days of a solitary march on the mountain of the gods, Mount Olympus, the volunteer of the NGO Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT), Lorenzo Nerantzis, completed the Olympus 12 Refuge Trail, a hiking effort that took place for the first time in Greece

On September 22, Lorenzo Nerantzis, a volunteer of the Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) from Thessaloniki, will attempt something that happens for the first time in Greece.

More than five hundred delegates from all over the world are expected to take part in the World Alpine Rescue Convention, which will be hosted by the Hellenic Rescue Team in Thessaloniki, in October 2020.

Over 1.500 refugees, adults and children, have been trained by Hellenic Rescue Team in First Aid, Fire and Natural Disasters Safety and self-protection through the “Learn-Prevent-Protect” project

More than 500 refugees are expected to be trained from the Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) in First Aid and the basic principles of self-protection

With two volunteers, one from HRT Samos and one from HRT Headquarters, in Thessaloniki, HRT participated in this year’s International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) Crew Exchange program.

An RS (Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue - Redningsselskapet) delegation visited between the 23rd and the 30th of September the HRT branches in Volos, Corfu and Irakleio.