VALKYRIES will increase EU overall resilience and effectiveness in cross-border disasters with multiple victims by enhancing transnational and cross-sectorial trust among different players and in their interaction with data-driven technologies. The project’s harmonisation activities will thus improve efficiency and interoperability in the intervention and coordination of first aid responders in European multi-victim disasters, contributing to lay down a transnational pan-European approach to react to disasters, where to place certain mass notification of the disaster scenario to the society and potential operational instructions to follow, meeting points, etc. In addition, the development of a holistic framework to support the standardisation and harmonisation of cross-border first aid response will enable disruptive technological innovations, their early testing while fully protecting individual and collective rights and interests under the relevant ethical-legal framework. The clarity in the legal and ethical framework will offer a fertile ground for quick uptake of VALKYRIES solutions by both industry and society at large. Legal compliance, along with appropriate consideration of relevant ethical and societal aspects, will ensure social acceptance of the solutions produced by the project. Finally, VALKYRIES will enhance the capability of the EU market and R&D initiatives to bring about harmonised mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery improvements in disaster management. Creating EU-wide standards in this sector will ultimately help reduce the EU Security market fragmentation, contributing to an actual internal market for security and fostering the competitiveness of the overall Security European Industry.
The main objective of VALKYRIES is to develop, implement, validate and apply innovative theoretical foundations, methods, prototypes and their demonstration on a reference integration for supporting the ongoing/planned European actions for pre-standardisation and harmonisation technologies, procedures, preparedness and cross-sector/border cooperation for first aid response at disaster management by emergency health services.
To achieve this primary objective, VALKYRIES will focus on:
• Map of growing commercial and R&D
• Sustainable Regulation and ethical compliance
• Sustainable Pre-standardisation and Standardisation
• Sustainable certification and conformity assessment criteria
• Sustainable Harmonisation framework
• Harmonisation of vehicular first aid technologies, procedures and collaboration
• Cross-sectorial collaboration, civilian protection, volunteering and military assistance
• Reference integration and interoperation
• Large EU scale cross-border demonstrations
