Erasmus+ Program constitutes one of the key development engines in the process of internationalization of the Main School of Fire Service (SGSP) in Warsaw. SGSP fully understands and supports the need and necessity of strengthening the European Higher Education and Research Space, especially in represented by SGSP such important area of study and research which issecurity. The importance of this discipline has been dramatically proven and highlighted during the last months and days in Europe and worldwide. Contemporary threats and risks, more than whenever before, have realized us the absolute necessity of the European values protection including security as one of these which has priority. Only the extended and in depth cooperation in theEuropean dimension, also in the higher education dimension, is able to cope with these challenges. SGSP providing studies on two study directions such as “safety and security engineering” and “internal security” is significantly benefiting from the pallet of possibilities available in Erasmus+ Program. Realization of students and staff mobilities is an important measure in achieving the operational aims of the university which among others are: an increase of educational and study courses development level, increase of the flexibility of study courses realization and access to individual study modes, development of scientific, research and didactic staff as well as the students, launching of full study directions in foreign language, internationalization of the study process (including an increase of the number of foreign students), participation and contribution to the international research space in the field of security studies (including development of research apparatus). In longer time perspective the above mentioned operational aims will lead to achieving strategic aims which are: status of leading university in Europe educating in the field civil safety and security area, increase of the university influence and its research work on creating of the European dimension of safety, security and civil protection.The up-to-now achievements of the SGSP in Erasmus+ Program are fully consistent with the above described operational and strategic measures of the university, significantly strengthening stable and evolutionary development process towards achieving the strategic development aims.In recruitment process there were 20 students of Fire and Civil Safety Engineering, as well as from Internal Security involved. Within the frames of the project, there were respectively: a) mobility for studies (SMS): 7 studentsb) mobility for traineeships (SMP): 2 studentsc) mobility of teachers (STA): 9 teachersd) mobility of staff for training (STT): 5 staff membersWithin the agreement, regarding the previous year, the total number of students, that participated in mobilities was 9, comparing to 12 a year before. The reason is to be found mainly in high number of students that resigned from the mobility or did not succeeded through the recruitment process (10 students in 2015; 4 in 2016; 8 in 2017, moreover, 3 of the students asked to reschedule their mobility to winter semester 2017/18). Because of such high number of resigning students, it was not possible to realize agreed number of mobilities described in the financial agreement. Students mostly resigned just before the deadline for application for mobility to partner institutions. For that reason, additional recruitment process was not longer possible. It should be mentioned, that during the realization of present agreement, SGSP has also participated in Erasmus+ consortium (KONSMUND, agreement number: 2015-1-PL01-KA103-014995), and realized 6 SMP, 1 SMS, 3 STA and 3 STT mobilities. The consoritum is one of two consortia presently operating in Poland. During the realization of the agreement, in SGSP there were following mobilities from partner institutions realized: 15 students (SMS) from Turkey, Slovakia, Czechia, Serbia, Croatia, Romania and 5 students (SMP) z Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia. There were also 6 teachers from Portugal, Hungary, Turkey, Serbia) and 5 staff members for training (STT) from Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kosovo).

The EU-SENSE project will provide an innovative technical solution to deal with selected shortcomings in CBRNe protection indicated in the ENCIRCLE Catalogue of Technologies. The created system will be a step-forward in chemical detection by developing a novel network of sensors that exploits advanced machine-learning and modelling algorithms for improved performance. The salient objectives of the project include development of an adaptable and multipurpose threat detection system (network of sensors, comprising both stationary and person-worn sensor nodes supported by environmental noise learning algorithm for false alarm rate reduction) and tools for enhancing situational awareness based on the sensor data (threat source location estimation and hazard prediction solutions). In general, the developed system will improve the threat detection capabilities and will increase state-of-the-art sensors reliability by networking and novel algorithms. Moreover, the project will implement a dedicated mode covering CB

FIRE-IN has been designed to raise the security level of EU citizens by improving the national and European Fire & Rescue (F&R) capability development process. FIRE-IN addresses the concern that capability-driven research and innovation in this area needs much stronger guidance from practitioners and better exploitation of the technology potentially available for the discipline. We argue that this is to be achieved by practitioners more effectively coordinating on operational needs, on available research and innovation, on standardisation, and on test & demonstration and training. Further, we claim the need for the development of a common research culture that is to be achieved by better cooperation between practitioner and research/industry organisations. FIRE-IN addresses these objectives through four main areas of activity: (i) the identification and harmonisation of operational capability gaps based on the contribution provided by a significant and heterogeneous practitioner network, (ii) the identification of promising solutions to address those gaps through monitoring and screening of research outcomes and the continuous involvement of research and industry representatives, (iii) the definition of a F&R Strategic Research and Standardisation Agenda (SRSA) based on the previous elements as well as (iv) the development of a concept for more efficient use of test & demonstration and training facilities to support innovation and joint skill development. The overarching result of the project will be a proven process for organising F&R capability-driven research based on a wide practitioner and research and innovation network. The network will be linked at cross-domain and cross-border level and will feed harmonised operational requirements (or challenges) into national and EU capability development, i.e. research, innovation, procurement and standardisation programmes.

SILVANUS envisages to deliver an environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform through innovative capabilities to prevent and combat against the ignition and spread of forest fires. The platform will cater to the demands of efficient resource utilisation and provide protection against threats of wildfires encountered globally. The project will establish synergies between (i) environmental; (ii) technology and (iii) social science experts for enhancing the ability of regional and national authorities to monitor forest resources, evaluate biodiversity, generate more accurate fire risk indicators and promote safety regulations among citizens through awareness campaigns. The novelty of SILVANUS lies in the development and integration of advanced semantic technologies to systematically formalise the knowledge of forest administration and resource utilisation. Additionally, the platform will integrate a big-data processing framework capable of analysing heterogeneous data sources including earth observation resources, climate models and weather data, continuous on-board computation of multi-spectral video streams. Also, the project integrates a series of sensor and actuator technologies using innovative wireless communication infrastructure through the coordination of aerial vehicles and ground robots. The technological platform will be complemented with the integration of resilience models, and the results of environmental and ecological studies carried out for the assessment of fire risk indicators based on continuous surveys of forest regions. The surveys are designed to take into consideration the expertise and experience of frontline fire fighter organisations who collectively provide support for 47,504x104 sq. meters of forest area within Europe and across international communities. The project innovation will be validated through 11 pilot demonstrations across Europe and internationally using a two sprint cycle.