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Significant challenges for the Project area are prevention, detection and warning of natural and anthropogenic hazards. Fire and disasters do not stop at borders and neither does their impact. Firefighting units in Wizna and Ternopil district deal with a wide variety of risks – from firefighting to providing specialized services, such as technical rescue, emergency medical services, hazardous materials mitigation, etc. Fire rescue services together with cross-border local authorities they have a crucial role to play in strengthening the resilience of their populations and critical infrastructure networks and remain the ultimate warranty when capacities of resilience are disrupted at any level. Local authorities also must provide robust leadership in emergency management. In fact the common emergency problems are inherent for the Polish-Ukrainian cross-border area. What is shown in the document titled “Socio – economic analysis of the programme area INTERREG NEXT POLAND – BELARUS – UKRAINE 2021 -2027” identifying the major weaknesses in terms safety and cooperation issues: – Differences in procedures between countries; – Lack of cross-border rescue procedures; – Low awareness of residents in the field of safety; – Insufficient public information about various types of danger (infectious diseases, fire safety, etc.); The main target groups of the Project are fire rescue units and local authorities of cross-border area. Final beneficiaries: borderland residents and travelling people benefiting from enhanced fire and disaster security. Overall objective of the project is to increase efficiency of joint actions of participating authorities through the strengthening of staff’ and equipment’ capacities of the fire rescue squads from the PL-UA cross-border area. Specific objectives 1. to develop the competences and skills of the firefighters from Poland and Ukraine, 2. to generate and maintain a cross-border cooperation mechanism between the firefighters in two coun