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
