A methodology for tracking and analysing the needs for standardization and certification harmonization thorough the project life cycle will be defined and enforced, which will allow the early identification of issues related to the conceptualization, design, implementation, integration and deployment of tools for support the EU disaster resiliency; which will be facilitated by a complete consultation strategy to the different stakeholders that are expected to act at each capability development phase, ranging from providers to end users. On these grounds H2020-VALKYRIES will 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 which several regions or countries are affected and hence greater interoperability being required. H2020-VALKYRIES will propose both design and development of a modular, interoperable, scalable 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. A series of use cases and demonstrators will be developed placing an emphasis on cross-frontier and cross-sectorial BLOS (Beyond Line of Sight) scenarios, where the usual communications infrastructure could have been damaged, and emergency response teams are deployed without an accurate view of the operation environment

PROSAFE proposes a novel doctoral training program in the multidisciplinary field combining machine learning, artificial intelligence, and process systems engineering with domain knowledge of process industry and process safety. PROSAFE will pioneer new foundations by integrating Quantitative Risk Assessment, Process Systems Engineering (PSE) with interpretable machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) disciplines as targeted breakthroughs to achieve the objectives. To this end, PROSAFE will develop new synergistic tools and train skilled professionals to address this very important societal, economic, and environmental challenge of safe and sustainable process industries. PROSAFE research objectives are: 1: Harmonize robust QRA methods and implementation strategies for effective and improved risk assessment and process safety 2: Develop AI and ML (interpretable ML) models using domain knowledge for efficient, safe, and reliable operations 3: Develop synergistic integration of model-based with data-based methods for improved process safety operation and monitoring 4: Demonstration and validation of PROSAFE novel concepts and methods on industrial relevant case studies for safer operation PROSAFE's major training objectives are: 1: Training of doctoral candidates (DCs) through individual projects combining multidisciplinary competences in the areas of AI, ML, and PSE within the domain of process safety 2: Establish and pilot the concept of a truly interdisciplinary European multicenter training program in AI/ML, QRA, and PSE within the domain of safety in process industries through relevant network-wide events, courses, workshops, and on-site industry training that complements training in soft skills for effective communication and entrepreneurship. Through this research and training program, PROSAFE will contribute to realizing the promising potential of the new artificial intelligence paradigm with a particular focus on process safety in process industries.