Civil protection exercises simulate a real-life emergency, so the training participants can test, practise and review procedures in a realistic setting. While a full-scale exercise is an essential part of the project, a UCPM full-scale exercise project also includes all of the preparatory actions and activities after the exercise to build on the learning.
UCPM full-scale exercises are the most complex and resource-intensive operations-based exercise. They involve multiple agencies, organisations, and jurisdictions and test and validate many different elements of preparedness.
Full-scale exercises often include international organisations and experts operating under the host nation command system. In a full-scale exercise, events are played out through an exercise scenario, with event updates that test every level of the civil protection system. A scenario is a story or situation that unfolds and helps stimulate the exercise participants to react in accordance with their understanding of procedures, plans and response processes.
The exercise incorporates political, strategic, operational and/or tactical aspects and involves the local, regional, national, European and/or international response.
UCPM full-scale exercises take place in a real-time, stressful environment that is intended to mirror a real major emergency. Participants are expected to deal with fast-moving and simultaneous events.
This means that the preparation and planning needed for a full-scale exercise is greater than other types of exercises.
The ‘European dimension’ is at the core of every full-scale exercise scenario. Each scenario recreates the challenging and realistic conditions of the international environment of Mechanism interventions. This means that they include interactions of UCPM teams and modules, the broader emergency response community, and humanitarian and other relevant international actors as appropriate. Exercise scenarios depict disasters that have in some way overwhelmed the response capacity of at least one country.
Scenarios include organisations and teams that would naturally be involved in a real emergency:
It is expected to include:
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