Crisis Management International Coordination Platform

FP7-IST Objective Security:

Supportive and Collaborative Action

Funding Budget Goal: 500.000€

The aim of the project is to set up a Collaborative working group to define the general and specific requirements of an infrastructure to allow:

• identify crisis situations that require international management coordination support

• Specify the information to be made available and interchanged amongst the national and international teams, including agreement on its semantic and ontological meaning

• Specify the physical required infrastructure to support the international coordination.

One of the main objectives of the working group is to specify the parameters and the algorithm to be used by the diagnosis and intervention system to analyse the problems and generate a solution. This will be done through specialised software, in real-time, to process data and technological alarms.

The project will also Specify the means to interchange information between crisis management teams, used to retrieve the required information to take accurate decisions about the required international support: human resources, recovery means, GIS information of critical infrastructures to protect, etc.

The approach will be validated by Firemen and Telecommunication infrastructures crisis management teams.

Keywords:

Critical infrastructures protection, International cooperation, crisis management, resource naming, recovery from natural disasters, resource sharing, secure information sharing, multilingual barriers, multicultural barriers

SIS (Safety Instrumented Systems), SIL (Safety Integrated Level), HAZOP, Device Integrity, Remote Control, Help Centre

Description

Big disasters happen quite often, like recently were in: Greece, Spain, etc. where there is need of international cooperation to solve them quickly and saving as much life and infrastructure as possible.

To do so, we need to specify and deploy a system to interchange and process information managed in the national crisis management teams of different countries. This information lacks of interoperability due to different names, not only due to language barriers but also to cultural and procedural background. We have to solve the language barrier first, and then deal with the cultural ones.

The project approach is an up-to-date international area of interest, using high-tech products and technologies constantly evolving.

The project will focus the following objectives:

• Reach an agreement on a common description of the tools used by the crisis management teams and the crisis level indicators.

• Definition of the Levels of protection, which can be used to reduce unacceptable risk to an acceptable level. The amount of risk reduction for each layer is dependent on the specific nature of the safety risk and the impact of the layer on the risk.

• Set up a database with the available resources for international cooperation, with definition of the common policies under which those resources may be shared outside their natural area of influence. This database will deal with multi-language and multi-cultural differences. The database has to include references to critical infrastructures, geolocated, and to Organizational and Hierarchical information of the response and recovery teams.

• Protocol to interchange information about the crisis evolution and indication of the critical sites or groups of people or population that require special attention and protection. This interchange has to be done with Geolocation references to critical infrastructures and in a commonly agreed language, which may require on-line translation of search requests and in some cases also the responses.

• The diagnosis service will continue to improve, through knowledge data base building for more than one application in the same centre, witch will have multiple solutions, linking them together will be proving to be a key factor in decision making in future activities. This will have a eloquent impact on the problem solving.

• Provision of infrastructure to foreign teams: Logistics, transport, safe communication means, insurance of people and vehicles, etc. Economic analysis should be used to determine the appropriate combination of layers for mitigating safety risks.

• Reaction and recovery Time as well as consequences of non-functioning time in an hazardous plant of critical service provision infrastructure will also be considered as part of the risk analysis.

• Actions to rehearse these common response actions with simulated situations.

• Awareness actions, to introduce the platform into all EU countries (Member States).

• Publish the results in communication means to reach also local administration owned teams and resources.

The defined solution will approach the following areas:

• Firemen

• Healthcare

• Civil infrastructure recovery (roads, bridges, etc.)

• Water disasters: rivers, sea, storms.

The project team members will also approach national and international crisis management and coordination teams, both from civil services and from Government institutions.

Work Packages

WP1: Memorandum of Understanding

Collect all relevant information at national level, to ensure a common understanding of the problem and the intended solutions to be described:

• Government teams

• Infrastructures

• Data structure

• Organization of:

  • Crisis Management teams

  • Decision Hierarchy

Duration: 6 months (M0 to M6)

WP2: Requirements

Definition of International Management and Coordination Requirements:

• Type of information to share

• Format

• Quality control of shared data

• Infrastructure: Harware, software, communications, etc.

• High availability

• Real time indicators to evaluate current standardised crisis level reached

• Support tools for cooperation

Duration: 6 months (M3 to M9)

WP3: Dissemination of results

This will include the production and delivery of the project results:

• Initial awareness workshop

• Final results presentation workshop

• Memorandum of understanding report

• International crisis management coordination architecture

• Plan for a Demonstration scenario building

Duration: 3 months (M9 to M12)

WP4: Project Management

Traditional management of the team members, WP leaders, etc.

Duration: 12 months (M0 to M12)

Benefits:

• they can solve their problems without calling long distances numbers

• the diagnosis will be done online, which will reduce maintenance costs

• experienced engineers will have direct access to the system, they can work together

• training courses

CMI platform: Crisis management: with experience in management of crisis, evaluation of risk and risk assessment, incident response teams of any kind, development of tools for crisis management (natural disasters, terrorism, CBRN, telecommunications, etc.).

We need soundness of the proposal and to demonstrate good links with the key actors in these areas

We need contributions to write the state of the art in these fields.

Please, send to us before <15Nov

1) A2 form

2) one-page profile

3) SEC technical/professional capacity