A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck central Italy (100 km north-east of Rome) very early in the morning on 24th August 2016. Area of damage contains several regions, i.a.: Lazio, Abruzzo, Umbria.The most severe damage The towns of Accumoli, Amatrice, Posta and Arquata del Tronto were among the most severly damaged locations. Several aftershocks struck the region over the next few hours. The most powerful had magnitude 5.5. The final number of victims is not yet known, but it reached almost 250 deaths.

Between 30th June and 1st July 2016 in Training Center of the departmental Emergency Fire and Rescue service of Seine-et-Marne French department in Gurcy-le-Châtel were organized large-scale demonstration of EDEN project (End-user driven demo on CBRNe).

Between 7th and 9th June 2016, in Warsaw, Crisis Information Centre (CIK) together with the Main School of Fire Service (SGSP) organized a Table-Top Exercise, that was final event of Project EDEN (End User Driven demo for CBRNe) Large Scale Radiological Demonstrations series.

On 2nd June 2016 in the Main School of Fire Service there were performed tests of SimSpace simulation software that allow to use different data from earth observation for the use of the situation analysis and as a support in decision making process.

On 25th April 2016 radar satellite Sentinel 1-B was launched from Europe's Spaceport located in Kourou, French Guiana and is already in space.

In April 2016 Crisis Information Centre SRC PAS published an article entitled "Geoinformation in crisis and rescue management in Poland".

On 31st March 2016 in Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia there were organized international workshops, that were next step in preparation to the table-top exercise within science experiment EXPE 43 of project DRIVER.

On 21st March 2016 national workshops took place in Warminsko-Mazurski Voivodship Office in Olsztyn. The goal of the event was to prepare the participants for upcoming science experiment EXPE 43 organized within European project DRIVER.

After 2 weeks from successful launch into orbit, Sentinel-3A sent first images of the Earth.

The EDEN project (End-user driven Demo for cbrNe) is being carried out under the 7th Framework Programme. Its consortium comprises 37 European institutions (universities, research institutes, companies operating in the security sector and other institutions specialising in research and development activities).

Next satellite from the European Earth observation programme Copernicus has been launched into space. This time it is first satellite from Sentinel-3 series.

The tests of an integrated information environment "GECCO" were held in The Main School of Fire Service on 3rd February 2016. GECO supports crisis management (especially response) and civil protection processes by providing access to the geoinformation products and information exchange.

Since December 2015 an application is available on the market called mGOPR which was created thanks to the cooperation between Mountain Volunteer Search and Rescue (polish Górskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe - GOPR) and Transition Technologies company within “mountain IT project”.

On 26th November 2015 in The Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw there was demonstration of chosen satellite techniques for rescue and crisis management. The purpose was to present chosen solutions that use satellite techniques and to show their usefulness for rescue and crisis management.