HERA - Discover HERA’s training and exercise programme

Training and simulation exercises are key to enhance coordination and build capacity of those involved on all aspects related to medical countermeasures, as ensuring timely and equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, personal protective equipment or other medical devices to all EU Member States is essential to save lives in any public health crisis.

date: 29/04/2024

As part of its mission, HERA aims to boost knowledge and skills in preparedness and response related to medical countermeasures, as it is essential to improve response capacity to cross-border health threats.

HERA’s training and exercise programme targets national, regional and local authorities in Member States, particularly those working on health preparedness, readiness and response, and its main objectives will be the following:

Strengthening EU Member States skills and knowledge on the full cycle of management of medical countermeasures needed to respond to a cross-border health crisis;

Sharing best practices and lessons learnt from past and ongoing cross-border health crisis among EU Member States;

Fostering and developing common policy approaches aimed at ensuring availability and equitable accessibility of medical countermeasures;

Supporting and enhancing coordination among the EU and EU Member States to ensure access and availability of medical countermeasures in case of cross border health crisis.

Trainings will be made available through the EU Academy e-learning tool and HERA is currently working with the EU Member States on identifying their training needs. In addition to trainings, the programme will also include simulations and exercises, aimed at testing and improving existing preparedness and response frameworks.

The training and exercise programme offer different types of activities including:

e-Learning for individually paced self-study;
Thematic trainings to exchange knowledge on a specific topic;
“Train the trainer” to develop a pool of experienced trainers throughout EU Member States.