Obiettivo
Humanitarian organisations like the Red Cross have sleeping emergency response units (ERU), which start acting immediately after disaster strikes. Each ERU has a specific function, e.g. medical care, sanitation, energy provision, or water supply.
Current equipment solutions will be scanned and bottlenecks with respect to large volumes and/or heavy weight will be identified. Then, novel materials and concepts will be developed to drastically reduce the volume and weight for transportation.
Examples of targeted innovations: lightweight but durable and thermally isolating tent materials, novel concepts for energy supply (biogas from sanitation), textile to line pit latrines, light weight textiles to store and distribute water and smart packaging of materials (matryoshka doll principle, i.e. smaller units in medium ones in larger ones, the smallest transportable by single persons).
Settlement kit modules will be developed that can be used for debris recuperation and re-use of damaged facilities. This is crucial as the recent trend in emergency aid is to stimulate as early as possible the self-repair. These kits can be inserted in an affected area (affected city, improvised camp, rural region) to regain as quickly as possible a ‘temporary’ economic and social life.
For reaching the ambitious goals, the project team consists of carefully selected partners. The project will be guided by a humanitarian actor (Red Cross). Further, key partners, experts in material and structural engineering, industrial design and architecture, are added for the design of shelters and their materials and for packaging and logistics.
This project will provide kits that can be pre-positioned and mobilized very quickly and easily, that are modular and adaptable, low cost, high-tech in their conception but low-tech in use. These anticipated kits can literally improve the lives of millions of peoples the first hours, days and weeks after a major disaster and this for years to come.
Campo scientifico
Invito a presentare proposte
FP7-SEC-2011-1
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinatore
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgio
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Partecipanti (15)
Partecipazione conclusa
L1840 Luxembourg
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2593 HT Den Haag
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8850 Ardooie
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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20133 Milano
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1013 AP Amsterdam
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2801 CW GOUDA
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3356AB PAPENDRECHT
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16129 Genova
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74592 Kirchberg An Der Jagst
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8171 NS Vaassen
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1018 DD Amsterdam
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0152 Oslo
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1840 Luxembourg
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