From investigations of the local context of partner cities and of needs for public safety solutions, a list of requirements for public safety solutions was produced to guide project developments.
Different types of technical results address the requirements:
- Public safety tools providing specific capabilities for the management of public safety, providing support for: (a) detecting emergencies, (b) identifying emerging threats, (c) emergency management, (d) cyber protection, and (e) operational efficiency.
- A platform integrating the tools in terms of: (a) Providing access through a unified interface targeted at specific security actors (especially Security Operations Center operators), and (b) Making it possible for some tools to work together and exchange data.
- Practitioners' Guides offering practical advice on: (a) operational change; (b) ethical, legal and data privacy concerns; (c) cybersecurity risks. These Practitioners Guides will be useful beyond the end of the project for all stakeholders involved in public safety, but will be particularly useful for adopters of IMPETUS results.
In addition, general "lessons learned" were shared with other projects, first adopters and policy makers, generated especially through interactions with end-users and other stakeholders.
Throughout the second year of the project, 3 sets of increasingly realistic and complex validation exercises were conducted in the two partner cities, following the same underlying scenario involving a terrorist attack during a protest in a public space. The exercises allowed for the maturation of the technical results between each event, in particular through the direct involvement of end-users in the validation activities and invitation of external guests to provide feedback and input.
In parallel to technical activities, project promotion was carried through communication, dissemination and exploitation activities, first through the establishment of initial plans and means (website, social media presence, communication and dissemination process, identification of Key Exploitable Results, IPR registry). The project organised and participated in various online and physical events. The Community of Safe and Secure Cities (COSSEC) was established at the beginning of the project and grew until the end, in particular to include a greater representation of cities and civilians. All partners were involved in defining exploitation strategies and dissemination mechanisms.
The technical results above constitute 10 Key Exploitable Results (KERs), for which an exploitation plan was developed, including three levels: (a) Individual exploitation plans, , outlining information specific to each KER and including opportunities and exploitation routes, (b) analysis and timeline for future development, (c) a joint exploitation strategy, outlining all the plans that involve simultaneous use of multiple Partners’ and/or project’s results.
