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STAIR4SECURITY- STANDARDS, INNOVATION AND RESEARCH FOR SECURITY

Project description

New collaborative platform to help manage disruptive events

During any disruptive event, a timely response is vital to reduce impact, potential loss and damage. An efficient response requires collaboration between public and private organisations and the harmonisation of tools and practices. These standardisation needs often rely on research actions. In many instances, however, policymakers and practitioners are insufficiently involved in the design of new standards in the area of disaster risk management. The EU-funded STAIR4SECURITY project is developing a collaborative platform with an e-learning tool as a single point of entry for information on disaster risk reduction and CBRNe sectors, with the aim to set up a mechanism for better identification and implementation of standardisation-related research needs.

Objective

A wide range of security threats including man-made and natural risks can result in disruptive events having serious consequences for societal and citizen security. Both, public and private stakeholders require adequate solutions in organization, procedures and technological capabilities to be able to respond timely and effectively. Thus, there is a need to develop specific standards to enable the various public and private organizations within Europe, being local, national, European or international to be effectively coordinated ensuring as much as possible a smoothly cooperation before, during and after a disruptive event.
The main objective of this proposal is to propose a collaborative platform as single entry point of information on the security sector coming mostly from research activities allowing a better governance of standardization needs in the Disaster Resilience and Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive (CBRN-E) sectors. The aim of the platform is to permit a better overview of current and new projects being at, national, European or International level; ensuring more coordination between all stakeholders and responding more efficiently and timely to the critical needs following an agreed strategic vision and identified priorities.
Besides ensuring the necessary partnering network, the project will review the necessary tools and mechanisms including the CEN and CENELEC Workshop Agreement (CWA) process and a fast-track procedure to adopt, if market relevant, a CWA or any other deliverable or reference document e.g. TS and TR into a consensus standard (EN).
Possibilities and conditions to include classified information in a non-consensus standard (CWA, TS or TR) will also be explored.

Coordinator

COMITE EUROPEEN DE NORMALISATION
Net EU contribution
€ 584 322,19
Address
Rue de la science 23
1040 Bruxelles / brussel
Belgium

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Region
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
Activity type
Other
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Total cost
€ 900 000,00

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