Network Of practitioners For Emergency medicAl systems and cRitical care

Project Information

NO FEAR

Grant agreement ID: 786670

DOI

10.3030/786670

Project closed

EC signature date 16 May 2018

Start date 1 June 2018

End date 31 May 2023

Funded under

• Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

Total cost

€ 3 495 957,50

EU contribution

€ 3 495 957,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DEL PIEMONTE ORIENTALE AMEDEO AVOGADRO
Italy

Periodic Reporting for period 4 - NO FEAR (Network Of practitioners For Emergency medicAl systems and cRitical care)

Reporting period: 2022-12-01 to 2023-05-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Emergency medical care in the EU is a fragmented chain including population, emergency medical services, volunteers, hospitals and cooperation with fire services, police and authorities. It needs to prepare to respond to new threats and assist casualties after security incidents. In response to this challenge, NO-FEAR is bringing together a pan-European network of practitioners, decision and policy makers in the medical and security fields. They will collaborate to achieve a common understanding of needs, as well as – in collaboration with academia and industries – increase the EU innovation potential that could better fill the operational gaps and recommend areas for future innovations.
The main objectives of NO-FEAR are to:
– create a long-lasting community of practitioners, interacting with a network of suppliers and academia,
– elaborate an innovation roadmap, with practical recommendations for uptake,
– advise relevant Research and Innovation projects,
– support market uptake of EU research results,
– issue policy and regulatory recommendations enabling collective procurement,
– indicate priorities for standardisation,
– support quick wins and practical short-term results, and
– implement a transactional dynamic portal providing fora, a catalogue, market place and flexibility to address new threats.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

NO-FEAR started building an active network of practitioners, policymakers, suppliers and academia members at the very beginning of the project. Today, the network counts more than 200 members, coming from more than 30 countries. Members of the networks are constantly informed about the activities in the project, invited to interact in the NO-FEAR portal and to participate to the project events and webinars, taking into consideration the relevance of their expertise in the specific topic discussed.
The NO-FEAR portal was opened to the networks in August 2019. It has two sections: one is dedicated to practitioners, decision and policymakers and another is dedicated to suppliers and academia. Practitioners and policymakers from different organizations and countries have been invited to join the Network.
Needs, gaps, trends, threats, lessons learned, and tools are discussed and analyzed following a 6-months cycle, phased by the NO-FEAR events. In the first 18 months, NO-FEAR organized three events: a Foresight Exercise in Nice, a workshop in Madrid, and a demo in Rome. The Foresight Exercise was designed to frame the project vision and activities over the next five years, through a bottom-up approach, starting from the inputs provided by the practitioners, policymakers, suppliers and academia members. The Madrid workshop was organized back to back with the EMS Congress in Madrid to amplify the networking and interactions with the EMS sector and focused on identifying lessons learned and good practices in the field of security-related incidents, scene security, and ballistic PPE. The Rome demo was organized at the Gemelli hospital and in close interaction with the local staff, to maximize the practitioners’ involvement and interaction with the tools providers. It focused on the handover of the patient and hospital preparedness for an uncertain event and included a live exercise and hands-on activities on the tools presented.
NO-FEAR consortium concentrated huge efforts also on standardization processes: a standardization action plan has been delivered as a ‘living’ document, based on the research conducted into standardization related to emergency medical services and is part of a four-phased methodological approach for the undertaking. From August 2019 a significant push has been made with the opening of the No-Fear portal.
New members are regularly involved in the network, through project-wide continuous communication and dissemination actions and through the efforts of the partners within their national environment. In the last 18 months more efforts were directed to recruiting new members through the collaboration with other practitioners Networks, clusters, scientific societies
and other institutions. Initial targets met and exceeded. Today, after a clean up of duplications and non aligned profiles, the PDPM Network counts 210 members in total (165 practitioners and 45 policy makers), of which 210 have joined the portal. Members of the practitioners network are constantly informed about the activities in the project, the webinars and the events organized. A consistent number of practitioners regularly participate to NO-FEAR webinars as speakers or audience. UCSC manages and monitors the PDPM enlargement and involvement in the project’s activities, with the support of all NO-FEAR consortium

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

A 6-Monthly Cycle is established for documenting and reviewing gaps, needs, lessons learnt and recommendations from WP3, WP4 and WP5. Several public reports analyzing the lessons learned, best practices, gaps and needs discussed during the
events and webinars have been produced and disseminated. In M36, initial targets met and exceeded. Today, the PDPM Network counts 250 members in total (214 practitioners and 36 policymakers), of which 168 have joined the portal. Members of the practitioners network are constantly informed about the activities in the project, the webinars and the events organized. A consistent number of practitioners regularly participate to NO-FEAR webinars as speakers or audience. Today, the SANE Network counts 150 members in total (103 suppliers, 47 members of the academia), of which 117 have joined the portal. Members of the SANE network are constantly informed about the activities in the project, the webinars, and the events organized. Several webinars have been organized to present tools and innovative solutions in specific areas, with the involvement of suppliers.
Suppliers and academia members from different countries have been invited to join the Network since the beginning. The members have also been invited to join the NO-FEAR portal, register their tools and interact with the practitioners and policy makers.
Today, the SANE Network counts 185 members in total (123 suppliers, 62 member of the academia), of which 152 have joined the portal. Members of the SANE network are constantly informed about the activities in the project, the webinars and the events organized. At the end more than 60 webinars have been organized and all the lessons identified have been analysed and discussed in a special workshop organised in Madrid in March 2022.
RINICOM manages and monitors the SANE enlargement and involvement in the project activities, with the support of all NO-FEAR consortium.
The project, during its journey where the creation of a network of practitioners dedicated to medical emergency services according to the three pillars methodology, goes beyond the state of art of the sector and constituted a space to test innovative approaches in the relationship between end user and industry, in the identification of gaps and needs in the field and in responding to them, often going beyond the mandate of the project, creating a community capable of acting at the intersection of policymaker, companies and citizens.
The case of NO-FEAR demonstrates how, thanks to an European project, to create a network of individuals and businesses that interact and or collaborate with each other can accelerate the sustainable growth of multidisciplinary and knowledge driven ecosystems able to mitigate the fragmentation of the emergency medical systems.

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