The dose of cognition from AWL personnel, that is how to respond in crisis

The Provincial Office and its Department of safety and Crisis Management have long worked together with AWL, since the Department of Security, in the field of national security, has implemented a speciality in crisis management, and the choice of the trainer was natural. – Unlike the training of mayors and mayors, this is where the Provincial Office must find the individual who will conduct these classes. Hence the thought of organizing specified a course with the support of AWL, which we are – I do not hide – satisfied with. We have a suitable teaching staff and, above all, we offer stable, wider than only training cooperation including later evaluations, research, etc. - says Colonel Wojciech Horyń, prof. of AWL, Dean of the Department of safety Sciences.

The first 2 thirty-member groups of officials will begin training as early as October. Classes will take 2 days – a full of 18 lessons for each group. Subsequent courses will start in December and February and March 2026. They will be led by lecturers from the AWL Emergency Action Department and police officers, firefighters, territorialists, as well as employees of the Lower Silesian Provincial Office. "Recognising that effective cooperation and appropriate communication between different services are essential in crisis situations, we strive to keep the highest level of training. Therefore, representatives of the State Fire Service, the Police and soldiers of the 16th Lower Silesian Territorial Defence Brigade were invited to participate in order to guarantee the comprehensive nature of the activities," explains Dr. Marta Kupryjanczyk, Head of the Department of Emergency Action of the Institute of National safety and global AWL.

As required by the Act, training will cover 8 thematic areas. These are: conditions for civilian protection and civilian protection in Poland, including threats to the local community and ensuring continuity of operations; office in the civilian protection and civilian protection strategy – role, functions, tasks and means of their implementation; functioning of the office in emergency and during war; preparation and planning in civilian protection and civilian defence, including planning of continuity of operations; cooperation, support and cooperation in civilian protection and civilian protection; detection of threats, notification, informing and alerting; crisis communication and hazard communication; assistance in civilian protection conditions; evacuation and means of individual and collective protection.

The classes were planned in specified a way as to combine the elements of the lecture, discussion and analysis of circumstantial cases. – We want participants to have the chance not only to gain theoretical knowledge, but besides to face it with real examples. As part of the training, we will mention both to the experience of the war in Ukraine and to the proven models of civilian protection in the Nordic countries – Finland and Sweden, where the level of preparation is very high. There will besides be references to local examples. A good case survey is fresh flood in Lower Silesiawhich has shown the importance of effective crisis communication. Unproven information or unthought-out statements of public individuals then contributed to serious information chaos in Wrocław. This event allows us to consider in a applicable manner what mistakes have been made and how to avoid them in the future. In this way, students can better realize how the explanation translates into practice and what is the importance of appropriate preparation in crisis situations," emphasises Dr. Kuprijanczyk and adds that it is very crucial to delegate appropriate people to these courses. “We hope that the authorities and another institutions covered by the training will delegate people who will be liable in their units for civilian protection and defence activities. We want participants not only to gain applicable knowledge, but besides to transfer it further, strengthening the competence of full teams – noted the Head of the Department of Crisis Action in AWL.

The course will be conducted at the Land Army Academy, but any classes – about 4 hours of lessons – will be held in an online formula. It will be a kind of cognition compendium, summarizing all the training. “The aim is to gather all the cognition provided during the course, so that the staff of the administration who took part in the training can rapidly return to writing specified a lesson and callback the topics discussed,” explains Dr. Kuprijanczyk. In addition, as part of the extension of the program, lecturers from the Faculty of Command of the Academy of Land Forces will introduce the subject of the basics of endurance art in crisis conditions, which will be made available to listeners as a supplement to the course. “After the first edition of the course, we will conduct a survey among the participants to get information about what they liked about the classes, what form they would anticipate for the future, etc., and we will effort to adjust it in subsequent trainings,” the doctor explains.

As he adds, the university is in the process of buying Jasmin crisis event simulator (JASMINE), which serves, among others, to train decision-making processes based on simulated crisis situations. The AWL will most likely get it at the end of the year. As Dr. Kupriyan assures, it will besides be utilized for training officials.