PubliComm

03/10/2025

We’re proud to reflect on our participation in the EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast exercise in Tenerife — one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences we've faced. As a subcontractor from the DSU Department for Emergency Situations, Romania, we were honored to support the consortium with logistics, administration, media coverage, visibility, and dissemination.

Special thanks to Harald Maierl-Fellner (CEO), Michael Kollroser, and Horst Gorup, whose on-site dedication ensured the project ran smoothly. Behind the scenes, Barbara Debre and Joe Riener provided tireless and flawless support from the back-office in Austria — your efforts did not go unnoticed!

Despite the complexity of the exercise, our team’s determination and synergy helped us overcome every obstacle. This exercise proved once again: the power of team effort.

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

28/09/2025

The EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast project is a part of the tasks of the Department for Emergency Situations, Romania (DSU), which has subcontracted to publiComm GmbH, international projects. The coverage of our EU-funded ( ) training mission was featured with a long report on local TV. Social media, the Civil Protection Knowledge Network, interviews and local media, including broadcasters, gave this EU-funded training mission a broad audience...

23/09/2025

📍 Tenerife EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast Update – Team in Action!

We’re excited to report that our colleagues from publiComm have arrived safely in Tenerife, fully equipped for today’s advisory mission. EU-branded polos, tabards, vests, and lanyards are all in place to ensure a professional and unified presence.

🗣️ On-site, our CEO Harald Maierl-Fellner and photographer Horst Gorup are actively discussing the most important points and key moments that need to be captured during the exercise. This behind-the-scenes coordination was documented by our team member Michael Kollroser.

💻 Meanwhile, Joe Riener and Barbara Debre are supporting the PCC team remotely—providing essential updates on logistics, media visibility, and more.

A seamless blend of fieldwork and remote support. Teamwork at its finest.

27/08/2025

We’re working tirelessly to strengthen civil protection and live the values of . Whether it’s wildfire response, flood preparedness, or cross-border emergency coordination—we’re not just training, we’re anticipating.

Together, we train for the unforeseeable. Together, we protect what matters most.

03/06/2025

In May, we met in our shared office to discuss current projects. This included focussing on the EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast project, which is slowly entering the final phase. This means detailed logistical preparations for the pre-exercise meeting and further logistical, administrative and media preparation of PCC for the mission in Tenerife in September. 👌📝

We also analysed and discussed our tasks in the Crossflood project. 👩‍🚒

We still have a lot of work ahead of us before we can have a little rest in the summer. 🫶

15/04/2025

After the EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast Ireland exercise, we had a very labour intensive time. Now we can reflect, where we supported the EU MODEX Lot 4 team. Josef Riener, Harald Maierl-Fellner (CEO) and Michael Kollroser supported the EXCON team by preparing tablets for trainers and evaluators, purchasing equipment and EU-branded clothes, colur-coded tabards, vests, certificates and many more.

Barbara Debre and Daniel Bointner covered mostly the media part of the exercise, by pictures and videos, which have been uploaded to the different social media channels.

The exercise scenario was an advisory mission assessing Ireland's wildfire and forest fire preparedness, host nation support frameworks, and integration of aerial firefighting resources. This mission involved evaluating current policies, operational capabilities, available resources, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms to identify gaps and improvement areas and provide actionable recommendations.

Josef H. Riener, Project Manager of this MODEX stated: “With the strong support from our Irish partners and the good contributions of the consortium members we conducted this advisory mission exercise. This setup is very important because it focuses on training the management level of future members of European Civil Protection Teams”.

It was a challenging week not just for the participants, also for everyone, who worked behind the scenes, but neverthelesss a great learning opportunity for everybody, who was involved! 👏



© Daniel Bointner

04/04/2025

We are happy that we could participate and support the EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast project in Ireland. We are still working on some of the materials and are proud to have been able to add some value to the exercise.💪



© Daniel Bointner

20/03/2025

CROSSFLOOD Stakeholder Meeting in Bucharest successfully conducted from 17-19th of March. 👏
From publiComm Josef H. Riener, our Head of International Projects has participitated.

Stakeholder meetings are to learn to know each other and establish a cooperation. This meeting was outstanding, the good vibes between the participants and the progress we could make. The scenario was developed, more stakeholders identified, the schedule of the IPC (initial planning conference) set and the means of communication decided.

Our focus goes back again to EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast, 3 more days to go...🧐💪✈️

17/03/2025

Almost 4 weeks ago we had our internal meeting. After the meeting we were quite occupied and we were working non stop on the preparations to the upcoming MODEX - EUCPT-Tast exercise. We are looking forward to the exercise, which will happen exactly in one week - 24-29th of March, in Irland! 💪

Before the intensive time we needed the time to meet shortly and update each other on our project developments and task sharing. Sometimes you need to charge your batteries in between and exchange with the colleagues since we are working quite often remotely.

At the original posting I wanted to inlcude about the upcoming Stakeholders Meeting in Bucharest for the project CROSSFLOOD, since there were so many tasks, this entry shifted more and more in the background, but this is fine, because as a project manager you need to prioritize. The meeting is already from today (17-19th of March), and we will report on that in the next days!



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11/02/2025

Last week our project manager Joe Riener participated in the Pre-Exercise Meeting in Ireland, Wicklow for the EU MODEX - EUCPT-Tast project), which was conducted from 3-5 February, 2025. 👏
There is a lot of preparations going on on several levels for the upcoming exercise (administrative, logistics, project support etc.). The exercise will take place in Ireland from the 24th to the 29th of March, 2025! 🗣

This week Josef H. Riener is attending the Kick-Off-Meeting in Brussels at DG ECHO for the next project Crossflood. ✍️ We are looking forward for new challenges and to a good cooperation. 👌

20/01/2025

The new year is already off to a very intense start at our company. 💪
With our partner Störfallmanagement Stolar e.U. we conducted a strategic workshop about new developments in civil protection, bringing together experts from various areas of security, civil protection, technology and politics. 📢
“Asymmetric and hybrid threats - the new challenge for critical infrastructures”
In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, critical infrastructures are facing unprecedented challenges. Cyberattacks, disinformation, economic pressure and physical or digital sabotage - the combination of asymmetric and hybrid threats require new approaches to protecting our essential supply networks, communication and information systems, utilities and public and private facilities. 💡🛡📡💻
The aim was to analyse risks and develop practical solutions that can also be implemented at the national and local levels.

30/12/2024