The 1st Planning Conference of DG ECHO funded project BALANCE took place online on the 27th-28th of May 2021. The conference was chaired by Mr. Evangelos Katsaros, CERIDES Research Associate and Project Manager of the BALANCE project and by Ms. Zorica Markovic, Head of Department for Coordination of International Assistance, Cooperation and Project implementation, of the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro. The conference was attended by 56 members of the project consortium and local stakeholders in total, as well as by Mr. Geir Ellingsen, ECHO Project Officer.
The main aim of this planning conference was to present and validate the project exercise scenario, working sites and location for exercise, the financial and legal implementation rules of the Full-Scale Exercise, the key issues related to Host Nation Support. During the conference, lessons learnt from past Full-Scale Exercises were presented, and various administrative issues were discussed and agreed among the consortium partners.
