Upstream Knowledge and Training Centre for Incident Response and Crisis Management

Upstream is the training centre for firefighting practices of today and tomorrow. Because the Netherlands is undergoing a transition, and the fire service is changing with it. Upstream is curious and incorporates these changes into our professional training courses for incident response and crisis management. This is how we learn, practice, teach, and advise on how the fire service can adaptively and optimally deal with all these developments.

Fire service regions and their expert and skilled employees benefit from Upstream's high-quality firefighting knowledge, insights, and experience in innovative, high-quality training courses. Lifelong learning with Upstream ensures the professional competence, professional growth, and performance of the organization.

With Upstream, operational managers and firefighting professionals grow in their leadership, scenario thinking, and situational action, thanks to:
+ collaboration with key players in the firefighting field
+ learning from incidents
+ working with active instructors
+ initiating (scientific) research
Upstream always works based on the latest social trends, the newest insights, and the latest technological developments worldwide.

In its training courses, Upstream puts firefighting practice in the broadest sense of the word first. We therefore combine monodisciplinary deepening with multidisciplinary broadening. And we are there for firefighting regions, but also for
+ industry
+ airports
+ port authorities
+ defence

Upstream combines high-quality theoretical knowledge provided by motivated, expert instructors with realistic practices, exercises, and simulations—in an always stimulating and often hybrid learning environment.