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For our third ARCSAR Innovation and Knowledge Exchange event we will be concentrating on innovations in training and education. 

If you have good ideas, know of any innovations or want to share thoughs on training and education  in the Arctic and North Atlantic induced by Covid-19, feel free to post your ideas or comments here prior to the event.

For our third ARCSAR Innovation and Knowledge Exchange event we will be concentrating on innovations in training and education. 

For our third ARCSAR Innovation and Knowledge Exchange event we will be concentrating on innovations in training and education. 

As we all wrestle with COVID-19, I hope we can take good notes on how we structured our Rescue Coordination Centres to maintain the watch and protect our team members. As an example, JRCC Halifax moved from a floating schedule in which anyone could work with anyone to a four team approach. Teams remain working with each other during this time of social distancing to avoid cross contamination.

Many communities have good capabilities for local emergency response and have organized volunteers with local knowledge and valuable competence from various professions. There is a need to identify best practices of utilizing the voluntary and industry resources in the best possible way and to their optimal capacity.

The challenge aims to reduce the bulk of the equipment carried by the rescue personnel.

Cruise ships might be the first on scene when there is an oil spill in the Arctic. How can they be equipped to be an oil spill response asset.

We have a challenge on how to board people from VOO for eample fishing boats on to bigger vessels.

Coherent data (e.g. from similar exercises and training) is needed for analysis that may deliver reliable results on existing challenges in performance and capabilities, SOPs etc. Therefore a shared methodology to exercises and trainings of emergency preparedness and security actors is needed in order to gain larger amount of data in ANA region.

There is a challenge for enhanced liaison with hospitals for emergency incident planning. This challenge can be also categorised under Pollution and Incident Control.