As risks are not “objective” but socially and culturally constructed, disaster management which is aware, respects, and makes use of local cultural aspects will be not only more effective but, at the same time, also improve the community’s disaster coping capacities. CARISMAND is setting out to identify these factors, to explore existing gaps and opportunities for improvement of disaster policies and procedures, and to develop a comprehensive toolkit which will allow professional as well as voluntary disaster managers to adopt culturally-aware everyday practices. This goal will be achieved by approaching the links, and gaps, between disaster management, culture and risk perception from the broadest possible multi-disciplinary perspective and, simultaneously, developing a feedback-loop between disaster management stakeholders and citizens to establish, test, and refine proposed solutions for culturally-informed best practices in disaster management. Whilst experts from a variety of fields (in particular legal, IT, cognitive science, anthropology, psychology, sociology) will undertake a comprehensive collation of existing knowledge and structures, a number of Citizen Summits and Stakeholder Assemblies will be organised. Systematically, CARISMAND will use an approach that examines natural, man-made and technical disasters, placing at the centre of attention specific aspects that affect culturally informed risk perceptions, eg whether disasters are caused intentionally or not, the different “visibility” of hazards, and various time scales of disasters such as slow/fast onset and short- and long-term effects. By organising six Citizen Summits (two per disaster category per year in two separate locations) where such disaster risks are prevalent , and three Stakeholder Assemblies (one per year) where the results are discussed through a wide cross-sectional knowledge transfer between disaster managers from different locations as well as from different cultural backgrounds.

Considering the socio-ecological transition of Europe 2030, and towards a more resilient and informed community, focusing on the forests that are near wildfire risk, TREEADS aims to build upon state-of-the-art high TRL products and unite them in a holistic Fire Management platform that optimize and reuse per phase the available Socio-technological Resources in all three main phases of Wildfires. For the prevention and preparedness TREEADS propose the use of a real-time risk evaluation tool that can receive multiple classification inputs and work with a new proposed neural network-powered Risk factor indicator. To create a model of Fire adapted communities (FAC) in parallel to insurance incentives, TREEADS will use alkali activated construction materials (AAM) integrating post-wildfires wood ashes (PWA) for fire-resilient buildings and infrastructure. TREEADS also uses a variety of technological solutions such as the Copernicus infrastructure, and a swarm of small drones customized for accurate forest supervision. In the area of Detection TREEADS propose a variety of toolsets that will accommodate most needs. Stemming from Virtual reality for the training, wearables for the protective equipment of the emergency responders. to UAV (drones), UAG and airships for improving capacity in temporal and spatial analysis as well as to increase the inspected area coverage. Last, TREEADS will build a new land and field-based restoration initiative that will use all modern techniques such as agroforestry, drones for seed spread, Internet of things sensors that will be able to adapt the seeding process based on the ground needs and on the same time with the help of AI to determine post-fire risks factors. TREEADS solution will be demonstrated and validated under real operating conditions. Demonstration will involve Eight complex pilot implementations executed in seven EU countries and in Taiwan.

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.

"Itself the title of the project ""One minute may save a Life"" shows the importance of this project. The rationale of developing this project arose from the actuality of this European problem. The argues that support this problem are found in a series of documents and statistics of European Commission, as well as of the countries of partners involved in the project. Based on the partners’ motivation and experience, this project aimed to create a training course for improving the knowledge and competences of 112 dispatchers. From the needs analyses, the target group (112 dispatchers) was the first-pylon in entire chain of saving human lives.The project’s objectives were:- the development and implementation of innovative practices in 112 dispatching services- obtaining basic competences in field of emergency services and several transversal competences in IT, communication in a foreign language, and of team working- the increase of 112 dispatching services’ efficiency- the development of 112 dispatchers’ abilities to listen, intervene and analyze the conversation with the caller to identity false112calls- the improvement of 112 dispatchers’ capacity to optimize the analysis of nature of the calls, for effectively directing and transmitting the emergency calls to the intervention team- the improvement of inter-institutional cooperation of the involved actors: caller-112 dispatcher-intervention team (physician, fireman; mountain rescuer).For the achievement of these objectives the project foresaw the following outcomes:- development of a training course - designed for psychological support of 112 dispatchers; the training course pointed out: psychology, security and risk; psycho-traumatology; communication with 112 caller; psychological profile of the caller; psychological aspects of emergency call taking; common psychological problems of 112 dispatchers; psychological intervention methods and technics;- development of supporting mini-guide of good practices - which were collected, summarized and outlined: psychological issues and needs of 112 dispatchers; currently available best practices in different EU member countries and common psychological problems of 112 dispatchers; most adequate measures taken in other several EU member countries; psychological support intervention methods/ technics for 112 dispatchers; specific recommendations to the stakeholders;- development of an online e-learning tool (e-learning platform) - were had purpose to ensure the possibility to the dispatchers, rescue services staff to use training materials, assess knowledge.All these intellectual outputs had a potential of transferability in other institutions connected with the theme of the project, and sustainability.In the application we want to do training for 95 emergency dispatchers but we topped that number and a clear result of the project was a number of 116 trained 112 dispatchers , who had improved competences and abilities to manage critical emergency situations with the purpose of saving human lives.In addition, at the completion of the project, the staff of the partners involved in the project had the opportunity to exchange experience, knowledge and good practices."