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Federation of European Fire Officers

Acronym: FEU

General Information

Identification Code: 014681328548-06
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Entity Form: asbl
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 10/9/2017
Last Update: 2/19/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: FEU, the Federation of the European Fire Officers is an NGO set up in 1992 with the following aims 1) Develop the leadership capability of career principal fire and rescue service officers in Europe with a focus on strategic issues; 2) Be a strong voice for fire and rescue services at European and global level; 3) Connect with career principal fire and rescue service officers in Europe to exchange best practice, improve knowledge sharing and facilitate transnational cooperation relating to public safety and any other activity as decided by the FEU Council. The membership of FEU includes member associations from 20 EU countries plus Norway and England and cooperation with several pther European countries.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Borders and security
  • Climate action
  • Communication
  • Competition
  • Education and training
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Environment
  • External relations
  • Foreign affairs and security policy
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • International co-operation and development
  • Public health
  • Trans-European Networks
Levels of Interest:
  • global
  • european
  • national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: We follow developments related to the following topics: EU Working Time Directive EU Fire statistics Civil Protection Mechanism Digital communications and GDPR EU policies affecting public safety Fire Information Exchange Platform Exchange of Experts Programme Climate Action
Communication Activities: Communications activities include: FEU organizes a leadership program called ODP (Officers development program). FEU aims to promote and facilitate sharing of knowledge, exchange of best practices and collaboration between fire services within Europe. The program has been designed to help connect and support European fire officers with their strategic focus, leadership, and organizational development, now and in the future. Publications: We adopted the most recent version of our constitution in 2023. It is available on our website www.f-e-u.org. We currently support the biannual European fire safety conference called the International Fire Safety Education seminar. The most recent conference took place in Ireland in November 2021. EU projects We have successfully taken part in a number of EU projects such as FireComp (www.firecomp.eu) 12 EU fire service organisations from 7 countries worked together to devlop a description of duties and tasks for firefighters, crew and group commanders in Europe. Safehotel (www.safehotel.org) Developed interactive safety training for hotel staff in 12 languages under leonardo da Vinci programme Multicom112 (www.multicom112.org) Developed language tools for training of control room operators in 17 languages and won European Language Label Award EUSR (www.eusr.org) Developed training programme for fire personnel in the use of special rescue equipment from heights and depths and in technical rescues Emergent (www.fp7-emergent.eu) Developed tools for management of social media in emergency incidents We are currently involved as a project partner in the LINKs project (http://links-project.eu) which began on 1 June 2020. The overall aim of the LINKS project is to strengthen links between technologies and society for improved European disaster resilience and in the DIREKTION projekt as associated partner. We have also issued a letter of support for the Erasmus+ fire safety education project for post primary students called BFireSafe@School (www.bfiresafeatschool.eu) We have also taken part in a number of Exchange of Experts (EoE) programmes under the Civil Protection Mechanism. We are also actively involved on the following social media channels Facebook FEU, Twitter @FEUorg, LInkedIn
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Unofficial groupings

Head Office

Address: 3, Boulevard Kockelscheuerp.a. Centre national d’incendie et de secours
Post Code: L-1821
City: Luxembourg
Country: LUXEMBOURG
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EU Office

Address: Vinkelvagen 4
Post Code: 24174
City: Stehag
Country: SWEDEN
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 5
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 6
Members F T E: 1.75
Info Members: The number of people above refers to the persons involved in the FEU Management Board under our constitution and an administrative function. Other work carried out by individual members of our organisation such as EU projects or events are not covered by this number.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: see www.f-e-u.org for list of participating member organisations IAFC International Association of Fire chiefs, www.iafc.org CTIF - www.ctif.org Many of our member associations are members of CTIF also. CFPA-EU - some of our member associations are members of the Confederation of Fire Protection Associations (www.cfpa-e.eu) EFSCA (European Fire Service Colleges Association) (www.efsca.org) EUROCITIES (www.eurocities.eu) - FEU has entered into a joint collaboration with EUROCITIES
Organisation Members: European Emergency Number Association (EENA) www.eena.org FEU is a member of EENA and a number of our members are also members European Fire Safety Alliance (www.eurofsa.org) FEU is a member. https://www.europeanfiresafetyalliance.org/ OBA Organization Bomberos Americanos as an adherent member. https://bomberosamericanos.org/en/home/