The Belgian Red Cross – Flanders organises its 5th European congress on CPR, Prehospital Care and Prevention from 13 to 15 September 2007. This congress, which has an international scope, introduces these topics from a different angle and deals with first-aid education and first-aid practice for the general public and for the first-aid volunteers.

The objectives of this 5th Congress are:

- to announce and speak about the implementation of the new European guidelines on first-aid education, which supplement the resuscitation guidelines;

- to exchange on the latest views in the areas of CPR education and practice, prehospital care and prevention;

- to exchange on the training of specific target groups.