HEIMDALL: Multi-hazard cooperative management tool for data exchange, response planning and scenario building

Started At:

2017-05-01

Title:

HEIMDALL: Multi-hazard cooperative management tool for data exchange, response planning and scenario building

Program:

Horizon 2020 – Secure Societies

Duration:

42 months

Summary:

The project aims at improving preparedness of societies to cope with complex crisis situations by means of providing integrated tools to support efficient response planning and the building of realistic multidisciplinary scenarios. The project designs and develops a system for improving response planning strategies and scenario building (TRL 7 or 8) and facilitating organizational coordination among many actors, integrating a wide range of support tools to be used operationally by a large variety of stakeholders (firefighting units, medical emergency services, police departments, civil protection units, command and control centres). The devised system integrates existing and newly developed tools to enhance the cooperation between autonomous systems (satellite-, sea-, land- and air-based) from different agencies as well as to consolidate the methodology for cross-border scenario-building.

The project investigates the currently existing tools and methodologies with the involvement of local authorities and end users and provides mechanisms to enhance cooperation among all involved actors.

Consortium:

• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. - Coordinator
• Space Hellas (Greece)
• Fundació d’Ecologia del Foc i Gestió d’Incendis Pau Costa Alcubierre (Spain)
• Tecnosylva S.L. (Spain)
• Avanti Communications LTD (United Kingdom)
• Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany)
• Université de Strasbourg (France)
• Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain)
• Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (Spain)
• CIMA Research Foundation (Italy)
• Departament d’Interior, Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain)
• Frederiksborg Fire and Rescue Service (Denmark)
• Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (United Kingdom)
• Associazione della Croce Rossa Italiana (Italy)