Project description
Innovative tools to address transboundary crises
Transboundary crises can threaten the smooth functioning of critical infrastructures and compromise the well-being of citizens. Three urgent challenges require immediate attention: shared response planning and training, real-time information sharing, and coordination of resource utilisation. The EU-funded IN-PREP project aims to demonstrate a groundbreaking programme for enhancing disaster preparedness. The project will provide stakeholders with a comprehensive reference implementation of a planning and training platform called Mixed Reality Preparedness Platform. The new tool is based on innovative IT technology and recommendations for coordination operations through the Handbook of Transboundary Preparedness and Response Operations, which incorporates lessons and checklists from past incidents and project findings.
Objective
European countries confront the rising specter of transboundary crises, which cross national borders as well as policy boundaries with speed and ease, threatening the continuing functioning of critical infrastructures and the well-being of many citizens. Transboundary crises pose a specific set of complex challenges for which Europe is – despite recent policy initiatives (e.g. Decision No 1313/2013/EU) – still ill prepared. We recognize three challenges that need urgent attention. First, member states need to develop shared response planning. Second, countries need to share information in real time. This sense-making challenge requires a way to have multiple countries and agencies create a shared picture of an emerging crisis based on multiple sources (different countries, many agencies). Third, countries need to coordinate the use of critical resources to ensure a timely response and to avoid waste and misspending. These challenges are hard to meet in any type of crisis or disaster, but especially in a transboundary context that lacks a dominant actor. IN-PREP will establish and demonstrate a next generation programme by enabling a reference implementation of coordination operations (Handbook of Transboundary Preparedness and Response Operations that synthesises the lessons learnt, recommendations, check-lists from past incidents) and a training platform (Mixed Reality Preparedness Platform a novel IT-based tool, which holistically integrates Information Systems (IS) and Situational Awareness (SA) modules over a decision support mechanism and the visualisation of assets and personnel) to the entirety of civil protection stakeholders (firefighting units, medical emergency services, police forces, civil protection units, control command centres, assessment experts) to meet these challenges. The proposed framework will not only improve preparedness and planning but can be also applied during joint interventions, thus improving the joint capacity to respond.
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2321 KA Leiden
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31402 Toulouse Cedex
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51147 Koln
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92350 Le Plessis Robinson
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00184 Rome
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E14 3BS London
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141 22 IRAKLEIO
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80686 Munchen
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75012 Paris
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SE10 9LS London
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SW1X 7QA London
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D04 PD25 Dublin
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BT5 6LE Belfast
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00197 Roma
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48165 Muenster
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8013 PE Zwolle
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85131 Rhodos
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EC2N 4BQ London
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D08 W2A8 DUBLIN
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A96 PR60 Dublin
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