This period has developed to be exceedingly fruitful for the MEDEA consortium both in terms of cooperation and sustainability events, and of significant deliverables submitted in all Work Packages and across all TCPs. As per organisational as well as communicational aspects, the WP1 revised the Memorandum of Association and updated the interactive map that displays security stakeholders operating in the M&BS region. WP6 partners continued their outreaching and communication action so as to share project results while WP7 enhanced the impact of the project’s dissemination and communication engagement with external stakeholders. To that end, WP8 has successfully organised joint NOPs workshops to communicate the MEDEA capability gaps in a collaborative manner with other EU-funded projects, ensuring the project’s visibility and sustainability outlook.
All TCPs have achieved considerable progress. After four distinct Open Calls to stakeholders for solutions and ideas (one per TCP but all of them unified as per the date of their launching) were launched, the coordinator reviewed each submission carefully so as to make sure that all legal aspects were respected by the participants. Afterwards, four RDI days (one per TCP) were organized by the coordinator and the WP leaders, were participants to the Open Call, other entities, as well as guest experts were called to present their solutions and ideas. All open call submissions were evaluated jointly by all MEDEA practitioners, after the conclusion of all RDI Days. Although the evaluation per se was carried out by the project practitioners, present in the process were other projects partners (as observers), external observers and the project’s DELC to ensure that all steps were concluded as per the pertinent legal guidelines. The evaluation of the submissions led to the delivery of the two Proof-of-Concept demonstrations. The first proof-of-concept demonstration in October 2022 pertained to TCPs 1, 2, and 3 and was delivered in a 3-day event where the security capability proposals for TCP1, TCP2, and TCP3 were demonstrated to the audience. In the context of the joint PoC event, a Tabletop Exercise was organized, which was addressed exclusively to LEAs and concerned two different operational scenarios. In the second PoC demonstration event, again, presenters showcased their submitted and evaluated solutions to an audience comprised mainly of practitioners, in November 2022.
Between November and December, the international (hybrid format) conference "From Early Warning to Action" took place in Aschheim near Munich, Germany. Organized by the MEDEA, Dare-Net and IFAFRI networks, the conference offered a platform for networking and content exchange.
