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HOTHREAT – Tailored CBRNe protection measures for hotels and conference centres /ISF/

The main objective of HOTHREAT is to increase the safety of EU member states society using the services of hotels and conference centers in regards to CBRNe threats. It will be achieved by conducting comprehensive vulnerability and needs analysis, identifying best practice to elaborate the tailor-made measures for CBRNe protection. The measures include recommendations for prevention, protection and response procedures and equipment, multiservice communication model, programmes for VIP visits, cleaning services, food defence, epidemiology enquire and CBRNe emergency application for mobile devices integrated with AR, and training materials for hotel employees. Involvement of end-users, series of piloting and large-scale exercises will allow to elaborate high-quality and well-addressed solutions and ensure project sustainability.

Project lasts 2 years (1 June 2023 – 31 May 2025).

P62: On-Site Technical Assistance to the EU-CBRN CoE Regional Secretariat for SEA, IFS/2018/ 393-792. Building/Enhancement of CBRN Capacities/CBRN Response Teams in Cambodia  (SEA Games FFV) / 16.11.2022 – 31.05.2023

Cambodia is going to organize South East Asia (SEA) Games from 05th May 2023 to 16th May 2023 in Phnom Penh. Building and preparation of CBRN Response Team is one of the significant tasks to be ready to prevent, protect and respond to CBRN Attacks or Incidents during SEA Games.

Main tasks of this short-term project are:

  • To support National Team meetings and other thematic national and regional experts’ meetings.
  • To support the development of a regional CBRN Table Top Exercise or Field Exercise when needed.
  • To identify the relevant local experts and institutions (in close cooperation with the NFPs) that can provide information and support in formulation of the needs.

“Enhancing Security Cooperation in and with Asia” (abbr. ESIWA) within the framework of the EU Partnership Instruments (FPI), Service contract no.: 81292739.

 The main tasks of this short-term contract is to prepare and conduct a CBRN-E defence and security capability development training course for CBRN practitioners from India.

ProSPeReS – Protection System for large gatherings of People in Religious Sites

Project is aimed at increasing the level of protection in places of worship by forming an outstanding cooperation of scientists, security experts and practitoners, public services and religious institutions (representing Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox Church and Jewish Community) towards preparing a comprehensive protection system. The system will cover measures for increasing prevention, protection, deterring and responding to various types of terrorist threats and incidents that may occur in religious places, including attacks with CBRN agents. The measures will be comprised of a set of tailor-made templates for this specific community. Religious organizations are directly involved in the project, which confirmes the relevance of the project and willingness to support the introduction of the system in all EU MS.

Project started 1st July 2021 and will be implemented in 2 years period.

Prosperes: https://prosperes.eu/

SAFE STADIUM – Integrated large sport facilities protection system supporting the CBRN security of mass events

Project will result in preparing the integrated CBRN protection system for sport facilities in accordance to Good Practices to support the protection of public spaces. The project consortium coprises of several leading private and public expertise and new technology providers in relation to public protection and CBRN threats, law enforcement agencies, security agency, sport slubs and sport facility operators. The system will be available on the online platform and contains: (1) a comprehensive set of security procedures, recommendations for improvements in infrastructure and equipment, tools and templates for vulnerability and risk assessment or preparing security plans, optimal protocols for cooperation with public services, (2) the training materials in a form of modular training programme including eLearning with Virtual Reality. The system will be implemented by a series of training (face-toface and online) as well as a pilot of large-scale exercises at the sport facilities.

Project will last for 2 years, its implementation started 1st July 2021.

Safe stadium: https://safe-stadium.eu/

RESCUER – first RESponder-Centered support toolkit for operating in adverse and infrastrUcture-less EnviRonments

RESCUER aims to design and develop a First-Responder-centered technology toolkit that will empower the next-generation of First Responders (FR) by enhancing their operational capacity and sefety specifically in adverse conditions. Adopting the „HERO“ (enHanced nEw eRa first respOnder) concept, RESCUER will deliver a toolkit offering: (1) sense augmentation through enhanced sensorial input, (2) precise selfpositioning, (3) cognitive support and multi-sense AR interfaces, improving thier focus and capability to utilise information, (4) robust ad-hoc intra-team communications for both verbal and data exchanges within the team.

The ulitmate goal of RESCUER is to introduce the next generation of FRs, who will be better protected, connected and situationally aware, with enhanced operational capacity and able to efficiently operate in infrastructureless environments without power and communications network.

Project lasts 36 months and its implementation begun 1st July 2021.

https://rescuerproject.eu/

LEICA PROJECT  (Programme: Instrument for Stability – IFS)

The overall objective of LEICA project is to build law enforcement capacities in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), in order to enhance security both on a national and regional level. In other words, the overall objective of LEICA is to partner with Central Asian countries in order to prevent and to counter terrorist activity. Main Outcome or Result is therefore setup as Improved law enforcement responses to terrorism in Central Asian countries in compliance with international Human Rights standards and the Rule of Law.  The purpose of LEICA project is to improve the capacities of key government agencies in Central Asia in their fight against terrorism, by providing technical assistance at national level based on In-depth Needs Analysis of each country, as well as thematic trainings at regional level. The purpose can be broken down into the following components:

  • Enhanced regional and international counter-terrorism network and capacity in fighting Central Asia jihadists and militants
  • Enhanced national capacities for prevention of radicalisation in prisons and safe return of children and women of foreign terrorist fighters
  • Developed regional framework for mitigation of terrorist threats
  • Measures to reinforce the intelligence and information exchange between Judicial and Law Enforcement Authorities
  • Enhanced capacity for the Investigation on Internet
  • Reinforced existing practice in financial investigation related to financing terrorism

MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN – Meeting of representatives of the MIA with the experts of the EU program “LEICA”

Mall-CBRN – Creation of CBRNE protection system for large area shopping malls (Programme: ISFP)

The main objective is increasing safety of EU MS society using daily the services of large-area shopping malls. The aim is to create comprehensive program of prevention and response to CBRNe threats (CBRNe response system) and food defence programme in one of the most endangered public spaces area – the large area shopping malls.

As the subject of the project is an innovative solution opening a new dimension of CBRN’s internal security in the EU at the level of large-area shopping centers we assume that this project will increase capacity of mitigation of CBRNe risks in the territory of the EU and increase safety of citizens.

We plan in this project various types of activities, from collecting information based on special prepared surveys and desk research analysis to inspection visits, table-top exercises, theoretical and field trainings as well as large scale pilot training in shopping mall facilities. Those will result in awareness raising, recommendation of best practices as well as countermeasure procedures. Thanks to that we will identify gaps in the shopping malls security systems and requirements for improvements will be defined, implemented and tested to complete the harmonisation process.

Official project webpage: www.mall-cbrn.uni.lodz.pl

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R-PLAN – Networking for Cross-border Risk Management Plan

Networking of civil protection actors for the application of an advanced approach for risks assessment in six Slovak and Czech regions is a primary goal of the project. The initiative is developed by two partners actively engaged in the analytical, methodological and operational civil protection mechanisms in the partner countries. The Slovak International Security and Emergency Management Institute is delegated by the national Civil Protection Authorities to advance methods and analyses in disaster risk management. Equally, the Institute for Protection of the Population is a state civil protection affiliated/subordinated institution providing education, scientific research, informative and consultative services in the areas of emergency planning and management to local and regional rescue services actors and Integrated rescue system (IRS). While cooperation is established in the area of emergency response, cross-border cooperation for prevention phases needs to be enhanced by introducing the risk assessment methods. We will directly impact the groups of civil protection officers, firefighters, rescue and first response service officers, volunteer protection and climate change NGOs, science and research centres in the cross-border regions.

R-Plan is a 24-month cooperation initiative of capacity building, knowledge and analytical work. The partnership pursues to achieve sustainable cross-border agreements of the civil protection actors, to bring new assessment tools of a synchronised risk assessment CBC methodology, and to network stakeholders via expertise meeting and training events.

 


CBRN CoE PROJECTS

CBRN CoE PROJECT P55 – Strengthening cross-border capacity for control and detection of CBRN substances in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauretania, Niger).

The overall objectives of the project are to standardize Legislative texts relating to CBRN security according to international standards on a regional way, and create a regional momentum to consider border security in a harmonised way. All with regards to an environment where circulation of goods and people is constantly increasing, and the risk posed by global threats in the CBRN field is growing as well. Security threats in the Sahel/Sahara are regional and cross-border by nature.


HORIZON PROJECTS

VALKYRIES – Harmonization and Pre-Standardization of Equipment, Training and Tactical Coordinated procedures for First Aid Vehicles deployment on European multi-victim Disasters

Project VALKYRIES aims to analyse, improve and demonstrate infrastructures, protocols and data exchange standards to increase efficiency during the deployment, intervention and local/remote coordination of first aid responders in multi-victim disasters. Solution will allow the early identification of issues related to the conceptualization, design, implementation, integration and deployment of tools for support the EU disaster resiliency. The aim is also to develop, integrate and demonstrate capabilities for enabling immediate and coordinated emergency response including search and rescue, security and health, in scenarios of natural/provoked catastrophes with multiple victims, with special application in cases in shich several regions or countries are affected and hence greater interoperability being required.

VALKYRIES will propose design and development of a modular, interoperable and secure platform, which will allow the integration between legacy solutions and new technologies. The platform will be able to deploy services and dynamically adapt its behaviour, as the emergency requires it.

Project will last 2 years, and its implementation begun 1st October 2021.

Project website: https://www.valkyries-h2020.eu/

NOTIONES – iNteracting netwOrk of inTelligence and securIty practitiOners with iNdustry and acadEmia actorS

The aim of NOTIONES project is to build a network of security and intelligence experts from both EU Member States and Associated States and to support their needs for future security research.

The network of experts will be made in 4 main geographical EU areas: (1) West Europe, (2) North Europe, (3) Middle Europe, (4) Middle East. NOTIONES consortium includes: (a) 15 practitioners from military, civil, financial, judiciary, local, national and international polices, coming from 9 EU MS and 6 AC, (b) experts in security research programming, (c) two projects outlining future EDA/EC defense research.

Monitoring technologies and defining requierements and recommendations for their industrialization will provide a great advantage for intelligence and security professionals. Through an iterative cycle, the output recommendations will be summarized in specifications and provided to science, research and industry across Eurpe.

Project lasts 5 years, its implementation begun 1st September 2021.

https://www.notiones.eu/

PROTECT – Preparing a Pre-Commercial Procurement for end-user services based on environmental observation in the area of climate change adaptation and mitigation

PROTECT aims at levering innovation procurement to unlock the climate service (CS) market’s potential to support urgent climate adaptation and mitigation. The project will allow public and private organisations to build up and integrate their knowledge and skills about climate change, environmental observation (EO) and innovation procurement, notably enabling public authorities to shift to a proactive governance model, using innovative public procurement approaches to increase value and climate impact for money. It shall increase access of CS SME providers across Europe to public procurement markets and shape solutions that best address public demand, both specific and systemic. The initial focus will be on five encompassing application domains (Utilities, Green cities, Health, Land use & Marine environment, Security) and their contributions to the areas of sustainability in Horizon Europe’s Cluster 6. The project will source and assess existing and high-potential CS solutions and technologies that use EO data. It will engage with an extensive and varied community of procurers, inform the definition and aggregation of their needs and functional requirements for CS, explaining, fostering and supporting a ‘buying with impact’ approach. Clearer, less fragmented demand shall guide and support R&D for future CS. PROTECT will prepare the operational ground for one or more joint, cross-border or coordinated pre-commercial procurement (PCP) processes and identify short-term actions so that Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) can be activated towards or right after the project’s end. At policy level, it will provide decision-makers for procurement, climate and policy, at EU, national, regional and local levels, with practical recommendations and guidelines to boost the use of innovation procurement for climate action.

Pantheon – Community-Based Smart City Digital Twin Platform for Optimised DRM operations and Enhanced Community Disaster Resilience

PANTHEON will design and develop a Community based Digital Ecosystem for Disaster Resilience utilising Smart City Digital Twin (SCDT) technology and leveraging new and emerging technologies and innovations to improve risk assessment, reduce vulnerability, and building community disaster resilience. The aim is to enhance the operational capabilities of CBDRM (community based DRM) teams, by: a community based smart city digital twin environment with components used for simulations, training and evaluation of the behaviour of sub-systems, threats and human factor; an early Detection and Situational awareness environment enabling authorities and FR and SR (first and second) even in complex, remote and demanding locations; an integrated intelligent subsystem, by the utilization collaborative sensing from earth observations and swarms of UAVs optimized to autonomously perform UAV-assisted operations though out all disaster phases. PANTHEON platform and technologies will be combined with IoT infrastructure, multi-source data (satellite and in situ data, social networks, historical data) to create a tool for assessment of risks, vulnerability and capacity assessment; disseminate and inform decision makers and the public for risks during disasters; engage citizens and stakeholders in the disaster resilience building and share knowledge and best practises; identify vulnerabilities and implement policies, strategies and plans to eliminate future disaster costs; enhance collaboration among people at the local level; promote the conduct of comprehensive surveys on multi-hazard disaster risks and the development of regional disaster risk assessments and maps, including climate change scenarios; promote and enhance, through international cooperation, including technology transfer, access to and the sharing and use of non-sensitive data and information; SCDT will enable collective community behavior into the assessments of exposure to urban multi-hazards across time and space.

Pantheon: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pantheon-project/,

http://pantheon-project.eu/

 

iProcureNet – Innovation by developing a European Procurer Networking for security research services (H2020 project)

The iProcureNet project aims to build an EU network of organisations centred on the procurement of security solutions through the appointed iProcureNet National Contacts (IPNCs), together with a larger community of people composed of individuals and experts interested in procurement. Via the established Network+Community, iProcureNet will facilitate collaboration and dialogue among procurers, enabling: i) coordinated sharing and analysis of procurement trends included in the investment plans, ii) development of common and standardised practices from the technical, legal and financial perspectives, and iii) establishing pathways for joint procurement (JP) of innovative and new to market solutions, research services, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products in the field of security. iProcureNet will develop the iProcureNet Toolbox including a comprehensive methodology, guidelines and a knowledge database of current procurement practices
and processes in Europe; and will create a firm foundation for the set-up of Established Buyers Groups (EBGs) – countries which, using the iProcureNet Toolbox, have found common ground and are ready to procure. Close collaboration with related PCP and PPI actions and the practitioner innovation networks will be a key component of the project. Ultimately, iProcureNet, will aim to create a stepping stone to future collaboration in the form of a future investment plan for collaborative procurement actions, and to develop detailed pro-innovation procurement strategies.
The Network+Community will be supported by i) the iProcureNet Online Platform (IPOP) enabling professional social networking and online dialogue on good practices and procurers’ needs; ii) a sustainable organisational set-up composed of well organised bodies and processes, and iii) appropriate communication and dissemination activities including Annual Conferences, trainings and workshops. The consortium includes 15 partners, out of which 10 are procurement agencies.

Official project webpage: https://www.iprocurenet.eu/

 
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