Between 15 and 19 September 2024, Portugal faced an Alert Situation due to extremely adverse weather conditions, marked by high temperatures and dry weather, which increased the risk and number of rural fires in mainland Portugal. During this period, 1,615 ignitions were recorded on the… Read More »VOST Portugal: September Forest Fires
VOST Portugal Partners with Municipality of Castelo Branco for La Vuelta 2024 Activation: A Milestone in Digital Event Management The third stage of La Vuelta 2024, which stretched from Lousã to Castelo Branco, was not just another leg of one of the world’s most iconic… Read More »VOST Portugal: La Vuelta 2024
Congratulations to VOST Portugal‘s team for the award received yesterday in Brussels, given by MEDEA Project. VOST Portugal‘s own concept of Virtual Operations Support Team, with a strong focus on real time communication and technological open source development was deemed, by the evaluators, as a “security proposal with… Read More »VOST Portugal: MEDEA Award
VOST Europe, represented by VOST Portugal, attended the EU-HYBNET 3rd Future Trends Workshop and EU-HYBNET 3rd Annual Workshop held in Bucharest, Romania on April 19th and 20th, 2023, as a network member. The workshops were centred around the theme of “Hybrid Threats in the EU… Read More »VOST Europe: EU-Hybnet 3rd Future Trends Workshop & 3rd Annual Workshop
VOST Europe participated in the third EU-HYBNET Gaps and Needs event on March 28th, 2023. The event, organised by the European Network of practitioners for prevention and mitigation of hybrid threats, brought together experts from various fields to discuss the challenges and opportunities of hybrid… Read More »VOST Europe: EU-HYBNET Gaps and Needs event
We are proud to announce that VOST Europe has been invited to join the advisory board of the OVERWATCH project, a European initiative that aims to improve situational awareness and crisis management through innovative technologies. The OVERWATCH project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon… Read More »VOST Europe Invited to Join the Advisory Board of OVERWATCH Project
As an external expert and practitioner organisation, VOST Europe was invited to participate in the STRATEGY project event that took place in Rome on February 15th and 16th, 2023. The event was organized by the STRATEGY consortium, which aims to improve the interoperability of systems,… Read More »VOST Europe participation in STRATEGY’s project event in Rome
VOST Europe participated in the joint workshop “Communicating the important role of Sustainable Forest Management to prevent wildfires” in Barcelona, Spain, that got together 47 participants from 23 organisations following the invitation by the European Forest Institute, Pau Costa Foundation, the Forest Science and Technology… Read More »Why should we talk about wildfires in Europe in February?
On February 6th, 2023, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria, followed by a 7.6 aftershock. The disaster caused widespread damage and casualties, affecting millions of people in cities like Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Hatay, Malatya, Adana, Urfa and Adiyaman12. The Turkish government… Read More »How VOST Portugal helped geolocate requests for help after the Turkey–Syria earthquake
We are excited to announce that VOST Europe has joined the Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference – Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (FIMI ISAC) initiative, launched by the European External Action Services (EEAS). This initiative is a crucial step in combating foreign information manipulation and… Read More »VOST Europe Joins the FIMI ISAC Initiative by the European External Action Services