The 12th European Cave Rescue Meeting is going to take place in Casola Valsenio, Italy between 1st – 4th November 2018.
Organized by Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico on behalf of the European Cave Rescue Association.
Please, fulfilled the registration form for the 12th European Cave Rescue Meeting.
Third Circular for the 12th European Cave Rescue Meeting, Casola Valsenio, Italy 2018, in pdf format.
Introduction
The aim of this year’s European Cave Rescue Meeting is to improve the perception of European Cave Rescue Association in a wider caving public. Therefore, this year’s meeting will be organized together with the big caving meeting in Casola Valsenio – Speleopolis.
Since the 1st ECRA meeting we work hard to achieve stronger collaboration and cohesion inside group. In this moment, altogether 19 organizations from 16 different European countries are ECRA members. Thanks ECRA is strong collaboration inside Europe between different cave rescue services already reality.
Cave rescuers are cavers, the main “power” that pushes ECRA forward. However, we have the impression that the wider caving publicity is not enough informed, what ECRA is really about, what has already been done to improve cave rescuing and safety in caving.
This year we saw a great opportunity at the notable annual meeting of the Italian caving federation (Societa speleological Italiana) in Casola Valsenio, where more than 2000 cavers worldwide will attend, to be there and to open our door to cavers.
The ECRA commissions (Technical, Medical and Cave-diving) will organize workshops on following topics:
- Highly specific and professional topics for cave rescuers as we do every year.
- Achievements in each field with some important remarks for safe caving for wider caver public.
- We will discuss about some important issues as being part of EU civil security, ECRA web, cave rescue education, joint international exercises, cave rescue services in case of big earthquakes/catastrophes.
As special guest we allow us to announce Chris Jewell. He is one of the divers, who have been directly involved as rescue divers in Thailand. He will talk about the experiences during the spectacular and successful rescue of the young soccer team, captured in a water flooded cave.
Pease visit our website – www.caverescue.eu or send us an email on info@caverescue.eu.
Please note the date for ECRA meeting in your diary!
We are looking forward to meet you in Casola Valsenio
The Organizing Committee
The meeting place
Casola Valensio, Italy
Province of Ravenna in the region Emilia-Romagna
School Building Meeting Location
Casola 2018, International meeting of caving @SPELEOPOLIS
All event locations can be reached within 5 minutes.
Participation fee, registration and accommodation
The total participation fee is 50 EUR and can be paid during registration of participants.
30 EUR will be paid for registration for Casola 2018 meeting and additional 20 EUR will be paid for ECRA meeting.
Participation fees include accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner during ECRA meeting. Organizer of Casola2018 will provide accommodation including all additional facilities for accommodation and for workshops while CNSAS/ECRA will provide meal during workshops.
Registration
Please note: For organizational reasons, this time 2 different registrations are required – one for the main event Casola2018 and one for the ECRM.
The main office is located in a building close to the school. The ECRM office will be in the school, the ECRA site.
For Speleopolis no online registration is required in advance.
Office Time Casola2018
- typical office times (unspecified).
Office Time ECRM 2018
- at least 30 Minutes before the first event of the day (Thu-Sat);
- otherwise as needed.
Accommodation
Participation fees include accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner during ECRA meeting. Organizer of Casola2018 will provide accommodation including all additional facilities for accommodation and for workshops while CNSAS/ECRA will provide meal during workshops.
Accommodation on improvised campsite of meeting place is available. Please take your own campsite equipment.
Arrival by train or plane
In case you arrive by train or plane please give us a short note, when you arrive. Then we will organize a shuttle on the short way.
Deadline: Tuesday, 30.10.2018
Accommodation is on improvised campsite of meeting place is available. Please take your own campsite equipment.
Official Language
The official language of the European Cave Rescue Meeting 2018 is English. All presentations should be written in English. No simultaneous translation will be provided.
Visa
No visa is required from citizens of the European countries. Please consult the Italian Embassy in your country if in doubt. If needed, the participants can request a letter of Invitation by e-mail: info@caverescue.eu
Organizing committee
Roberto Corti
Responsible, The National Alpine Cliff and Cave Rescue Corps, CNSAS, Italy
Alberto Ubertino
Vice President of ECRA, The National Alpine Cliff and Cave Rescue Corps, CNSAS, Italy
Dinko Novosel
President of ECRA, Croatian Mountain Rescue Service, HGSS, Croatia
Kurt Dennstedt
General Secretary of ECRA, Austrian Cave Rescue Association, ÖHR, Austria
Giuseppe Conti
Chairperson of Technical commission of ECRA, The National Alpine Cliff and Cave Rescue Corps, CNSAS, Italy
Lana Djonlagic
Chairperson of Medical commission of ECRA, Croatian Mountain Rescue Service, HGSS, Croatia
Robert Anzic
Chairperson of Cave-diving commission of ECRA, Cave Rescue Service of Slovenia, JRS, Slovenia
Antoniya Vlaykova
Responsible for ECRA web visibility, Cave Rescue – Bulgaria, CRB, Bulgaria
Contacts
Alberto Ubertino
E-mail: alberto@tessituraubertino.com, Phone: +39 335 600 90 58
Dinko Novosel
E-mail: dinko.novosel@gmail.com, Phone: +385 91 517 94 31
Kurt Dennstedt
E-mail: kurt.dennstedt@oehr.at, Phone: +43 680 230 00 25
