On 28 May 2025, volunteer fire brigade leaders from Poland had the opportunity to visit their colleagues on the other side of the border at a special location during the third cross-border specialist workshop of the ‘Eco-Energie in Aktion’ project. The meeting took place at the VSU Tunnel Königshainer Berge fire station by the A4 motorway.... read more
Topic: Civic protection, Climate protection
On 26 March 2025, fire brigade teams from Poland and Saxony met for the second time as part of a cross-border specialist workshop for civil protection managers on the premises of the district administration office in Lubań. The meeting was attended by Zbigniew Zjawin, District Administrator of the District of Lubań, Albrecht Gubsch, Mayor of the... read more
Topic: Civic protection
Representatives of the fire brigades of Löbau and Luban met on December 12th, 2024, in Löbau for a first expert workshop in the framework of the project "Eco-Energy in Action". The workshops aim at identifying barriers to cross-border civic protection efforts and to find pragmatic solutions to ease the collaboration. The event was attended by 25... read more
Topic: Civic protection
WildfireCE is developing action plans on how regions can better cope with the increasing risk of forest fires. The focus is on border regions such as Saxon Switzerland and Bohemian Switzerland. This includes the Karst between Slovenia and Italy, where the project partners held their second project meeting in Ajdovščina (SI) on November 6th and... read more
Topic: Civic protection
As Löbau's Fire Brigade celebrated its 150th anniversary on June 14th, 2024, its Polish colleagues from fire brigades in the Luban district came to gratulate. At the same time, the highest representatives of the two project partners alongside dozens of members of both fire brigades met for a new project's kick-off meeting in Löbau and looked... read more
Topic: Civic protection
When a long line of fire trucks zigzagged its way to Löbau last Saturday (22/10/22) many residents asked themselves what might be happening. It was not just Löbau's fire brigade but trucks from a number of fire brigades from different towns in the Luban district in Poland who had come to Löbau for a joint exercise. The fire brigades practised... read more
Topic: Civic protection, Climate protection
Löbau's fire brigade received new digital message receivers to improve its response speed and a movable flood barrier. The investments were financed through the Polish-Saxon cross-border project "Kommando". Further investments to better protect human lifes and material goods in events of extreme weather will be made during 2022 by both the City... read more
Topic: Civic protection, Climate protection
As part of the INTERREG Saxony-Poland project "Kommando", about 70 German and Polish children and teenagers, between the age of 8 and 15, met for a joint exercise of the youth fire brigades. At several stations, they practised various fire brigade skills, e.g. lifting heavy loads with hydraulic pumps, as well as performing first aid. Afterwards,... read more
Topic: Civic protection
The joint German-Polish training exercise of the fire brigades was organized on 15th September 2018, which involved about 100 Polish and German firefighters and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB). On the grounds of the "Ostsächsischen Eisenbahnfreunde in Löbau an accident was simulated with a tanker, which derailed due to heavy rain. The main... read more
Topic: Civic protection
Around 70 stakeholders participated in a Convention of Border Towns in Görlitz to discuss the future of the cross-border cooperation between Saxony and Poland. The event focused on cross-border synergies in the provision of services of general interest that are already used in other border regions. Participants also agreed on the importance of... read more
Topic: Civic protection, Demographic change, Institutional capacities