Baltic Roundtable on 112

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Organised by EENA and the Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre

Organised jointly by EENA, the European Emergency Number Association, and the Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre
Organised jointly by EENA, the European Emergency Number Association, and the Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre

With the support of:
the Emergency Response Centre of Estonia and the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia

With the support of the Emergency Response Centre of Estonia and the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia
With the support of the Emergency Response Centre of Estonia and the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia

Date and place: 10 September 2010 - Vilnius, Lithuania

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Context of the event:

The Baltic Roundtable is organised jointly by EENA, the European Emergency Number Association, and the Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre, with the support of the Emergency Response Centre of Estonia  and the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia.
The debate will allow Baltic countries' stakeholders to discuss issues and challenges and to benefit from European best practices and international experience. The Roundtable will aim at providing the Baltic emergency authorities with a roadmap on how to best tackle the challenges related to the functioning of the European emergency number 112 and emergency services in general.

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Introduction 9:00 - 9:15

Arturas Kedavicius, Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre

Demetrios Pyrros, Chairman of the EENA Advisory Board

PANEL 1 - 9:15 - 10:30
112 Models

Chair: Demetrios Pyrros, Chairman of the EENA Advisory Board / EKAB Greece

Baltic 112 systems

Tadas Maroscikas, Lithuanian ERC, Lithuania's 112 system: model and problematics

Janek Laev, Emergency Response Centre Estonia, Estonia's 112 system

Ilze Vicinska, State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia, Latvia's 112 system

Other 112 systems in Europe

Stoyan Gramatikov, Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria, Bulgaria's 112 system

PANEL 2 - 10:45 - 12:15
Emergency numbers and emergency services collaboration

Chair: Gary Machado, EENA

Debate on emergency numbers and emergency services' organisation (Discussion)

Chris Van Hunnik, Dutch National Police Agency

Tadas Maroscikas, Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre

Georges-Antoine Capitani, SAMU Essonne (France)

Demetrios Pyrros, Chairman of the EENA Advisory Board / EKAB Greece

Chair: Uberto Delprato, IES Solutions

Cross-border cooperation

Tadas Maroscikas, Lithuanian ERC, Collaboration between Baltic countries: what do we need?

Bo Edstrom, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, Collaboration between the Nordic countries

PANEL 3 - 13:45 - 16:15
Access to 112

Chair: Gregor Jänin, Chairman of EENA Operations Committee

Call-takers education and protocols

Stephen Hines, London ambulance Service NHS Trust, London model for protocols

Janek Laev, Emergency Response Centre Estonia, Call management system

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Multilingual 112 calls

Loreta Stratilatovienė, Learnkey, Multicom 112 project

Gary Machado, EENA, Multilingual answering & the experience of Brussels' 112 Centre

Chair: Tony O'Brien, Commission for Communications Regulation (Ireland)

Access to 112 for people with disabilities

Svetlana Litvinaite , Lithuanian Deaf People Association, Project on accessibility for 112

Uberto Delprato, IES Solutions, REACH 112 project

Chris Van Hunnik, Dutch National Police Agency, The REACH112 Dutch pilot

John Martin, Aupix, Demonstration of Total Conversation

Chair: Gregory Rohde, E9-1-1 Institute

NG112

Stephane Delaporte, Alcatel Lucent, Evolution of telecommunications

Tor Lundgren, Ericsson, Evolution of telecommunications

Andres Kütt, Skype, Emergency access from Skype

PANEL 4 - 16:35 - 16:45
Action plan to promote 112

Jerome Paris, 112 Foundation, Integrated annual plan for the promotion of 112

Conclusions - 16:45 - 17:15

Arturas Kedavicius, Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre

Demetrios Pyrros, Chairman of the EENA Advisory Board

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