Following the signature of an agreement in June 2012 for the implementation of an international CBRNE master’s course between the university of Tor Vergata, Rome/Italy, Hotzone Solutions, the Netherlands, Seibersdorf Labor GmbH, Austria, VVU (former VOP), the Czech Republic, and Chernobyl Centre, Ukraine, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new and unique International CBRNE Master’s Course.

The new International CBRNE Master’s Course will be launched during the academic year 2013-2014, and will include, among other innovations,  live agent training. It will comprise:

A two-year International CBRNE Master’s Course (120 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) points).

A one-year Executive Master’s Programme (60 ECTS points).

The master’s course, supported by international partners from four countries, is planned to start in autumn 2013. It will apply ECTS, a central tool in the Bologna Process aimed at ensuring comparability of national systems. It is designed to produce well-trained, highly-skilled and knowledgeable professionals, capable of coping effectively with any CBRNE threat-related scenario. Various organisations and universities from all over the world have already shown a marked interest in the master’s course.

Registration at the university of Tor Vergata/Rome/Italy will be open as of July 2013.

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The intense course combining all three elements was the latest in a series of specific to role training designed to assist ADP Directorate General of Security and Ports Affairs in meeting new and current threats.

The period provided course participants with through a mixture of practical and classroom work the ability to apply and adapt key lessons from the three areas mentioned in order to enhance current capability.

Small scale exercise to allow application and investigation of detection and protection principles in a scenario relative to role.

Applying and investigating the use of low cost, expeditionary, team - operated, decontamination options  and principles.  The training also investigated options using purpose built systems including showers and applicators that harness the ability to decontaminate by removal and detoxification.

Colonel Humaid Saeed Al Afreet, Head of Firearms and Explosives Department at ADP Directorate General of Security and Ports Affairs pictured with course attendees and their commander at the graduation ceremony. Also pictured are the HZS course trainers (Mr Amos Brierley & Mr Jindrich Dvorak) with the course interpreter (Mrs Rania Kattan).

On 13 February 2013 the Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence Centre of Excellence located in Vyskov, Czech Republic, and Hotzone Solutions Group BV, The Netherlands, signed a cooperation agreement with the aim to cooperate in the following activities:

- Support of CBRN Courses,

- Consulting and advice in the area of CBRN Defence, involvement and support of CBRN Reachback,
- Development of JCBRN Defence COE’s Modelling & Simulation Systems capabilities.

In accordance with this cooperation, the JCBRN Defence COE shall pending its operational needs and possibilities:

- Request HZS CBRN Subject Matter Experts (CBRN SMEs) to carry out training and consulting activities under the supervision of the JCBRN Defence COE,
- Evaluate and provide a written assessment of HZS courses and activities upon request of HZS, including those carried out at the HZS International CBRN Institute in Belgium,
- Certify HZS courses after evaluation as ‘In compliance with  NATO JCBRN Defence COE standards’.

This new cooperation agreement is an example for  Civil-Military Cooperation; it will allow HZS  to further increase and diversify its training capabilities and services in the field of CBRN incident management.

Hotzone Solutions (HZS) is once again strengthening its expert position in the CBRN field forming a strategic partnership with ‘miprolab Mikrobiologische Diagnostik GmbH Germany’. 

This new cooperation agreement allows HZS to further increase and diversify its training capabilities and services in the field of CBRN biological  countermeasures, so to be always able to customize its services and meet each customer’s needs.

miprolab offers a broad range of products and services for microbiological diagnosis and detection. Services cover the production of toxins, the toxicological and microbiological analyses of your samples and the development and production of rapid assays for metabolites, toxins and infectious agents.

As of 2013 HZS will incorporate miprolab’s rapid tests for the detection of biological threat agents in its training courses. Besides the simple handling and the read-out by the naked eye, an essential advantage of the rapid test is the timely test result, which is important for the on-site detection in the field. miPROTECT® test systems are intended for the on-site-detection in the field and are equally suitable for military as well as for civil protection units.

In its continuous effort to provide world class CBRNE training solutions around the globe, together miprolab  and HZS offer a complete solution either in terms of consultancy, capability development, training or delivery of capability across the biological threat spectrum.

Picture of a miPROTECT® rapid test