Meeting Office Working Hours
26 – 30 September (Saturday – Wednesday): 8:00 – 10:00
1 October, Thursday: 17 – 21:00
2 October, Friday: 8:00 – 11:00
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Arrival – during the day
19:00 – 20:30 Dinner / Check-in at Meeting Office (see opening hours)
Friday, 2 October 2026
07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast / Check-in at Meeting Office (see opening hours)
09:00 – 10:00 Opening
Communication WG
10:00 – 10:20 Nicola 4 update
10:20 – 11:00 SYBET Poland
11:00 – 11:30 Development of Slovenian communication system
11:30 – 11:50 Weak Signal radios – Alberta/British Columbia
11:50 – 12:05 Meshcan Methtastic video – Spain
Medical Commission
10:00 – 12:00 Presentations:
- Medical aspects of the Svazna Studna (Moravian Karst) rescue – Kateřina Kalová
- Immersion pulmonary oedema – Brendan Sloan
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Communication WG
13:30 – 17:00 Communication Systems Showcase – practical session, run alongside the optic fiber tests : Polish cave radios · Nicola 4 update · Bulgarian Communication system update
Practical session
13:30 – 15:30 Optic fibre communication – proof of concept
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:00 Fibre optic debrief
Technical Commission
Presentation in room
17:00 – 17:20 Head Protection – Miha Staut, Vidic
17:20 – 17:50 Rescue Exercise Kačna jama – Maks Merela and Marko Zakrajšek SpaceMED
17:50 – 18:10 Rescue exercise in Panjkov ponor – Jure Šarić
18:10 – 18:30 Recruiting and Training of New Cave Rescuers in Hungary – Gyula Hegedűs
18:30 – 18:50 Removal of explosive remands of war from caves in Croatia – Matteo Zausnig
Medical Commission
13:30 – 19:00
- Discussion on caver first aid training
- Slovenian caver first aid system
Cave Diving Commission
13:00 – 19:00 Cave diving exercise in cave
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner
Presentations in room
20:00 – 20:30 Cave Rescue Under Low Oxygen Levels in Piglets Cave, Ofra region, Israel – Yoav Negev, President of Cave Rescue Israel (30 min, remote)
20:30 – 21:00 Operational Lessons and Evolving Rescue Doctrine from Two Cave Entrapments in Canada – Christian Stenner, Alberta/British Columbia Cave Rescue (30 min, remote)
21:00 – 21:30 Grotta dei Cinghiali Volanti – Viola Morigoni CNSAS
21:30 – 21:45 Rescue operation in cave Provalija, eastern Herzegovina – Mihovil Čuljak, GSS BiH
21:45 – 22:15 Rescue operations in the caves of Polish Jura – Witold Studzinski and Bart Skoczylas GOPR
Saturday, 3 October 2026
07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00 ECRA General Assembly
PEC
Practical session
10:00 – 12:30 Blasting, practical sesion
! Persons, who want to join the PEC-practical session need a reflective vest, a helmet and shoes that cover the ankles
Medical Commission
10:00 – 12:30 Workshops:
- Equipment demos: Monitoring and patient care
Cave Diving Commission
10:00 – 12:30 Cave diving workshops
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
PEC
Presentations in room
13:30 – 14:00 EŠO Blasting work – Dejan Žugelj
Technical Commission and Communication WG
Presentation in room
14:00 – 14:20 Rescue manual JRS – Damjan Šinigoj
14:20 – 14:40 English Version of the Cave Rescue Book – József Mészáros
Outside
14:40 – 15:00 Using a Micro Traxion for stretcher rigging and transferring stretchers from one Tyrolean traverse to another – Dino Grozić
Presentations in room
15:00 – 15:20 Survey on cave rescue anchoring techniques – Rodrigo Severo
15:20 – 15:40 Measurements in Case of Anchor Failure – József Mészáros
15:40 – 16:30 Lidar – Tomas Pawlowsky, Salvaspeleo
16:30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 17:30 Swiss Cave Diving Accident Case Study – Sarah Wagner
17:30 – 18:00 STUCK in Bardla: An Immersive Four-Day Cave rescue simulation – Denes Akos Nagy
Medical Commission
13:30 – 17:00 Workshops:
- Ultrasound workshop
- Procedural demos
Cave Diving Commission
13:30 – 16:00 Cave diving workshops
18:00 – 20:00 Cave rescue competition
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
21:00 Party
Saturday, 4 October 2026
07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast
Departure
