ITALY CROATIA CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION PROGRAMME
START DATE
Nov 11, 2021 h.
On 11 November 2021 took place the Work Cafè organised by Agencija za ruralni razvoj Zadarske zupanije AGRRA.
On 11 November 2021 took place the Work Cafè organised by Agencija za ruralni razvoj Zadarske zupanije AGRRA.
From 11 November, in fact, the AGGRA started organizing a series of meetings aimed at engaging both local civil protection and citizens into informally discussing the role of Civil Protection as well as how to cooperate with it in case of hazardous situations.
This first Work Café focused on:
START DATE
May 03, 2022 h.
On 3- 7 May 2022 a Work Cafè was organized in Molise by Regione Molise, Lead Partner of the ECITIJENS project, in collaboration with its Civil Protection Department.
On 3- 7 May 2022 a Work Cafè was organized in Molise by Regione Molise, Lead Partner of the ECITIJENS project, in collaboration with its Civil Protection Department. It was aimed at improving the expertise of professionals on decision-making and management tools, such as the ECITIJENS EDSS platform, as an innovative technology for crisis management in Molise, a region particularly vulnerable to natural risks.
The work café was held with professional accessibility certifiers and it saw the participation of some journalists, architects, engineers, surveyors, geologists, agricultural experts, as well as regional officials of the Civil Protection Service who participated in the training that took them to receiving a professional qualification for the assessment of building accessibility after seismic occurrences.
During the event, a specific section was organized only for journalists, in collaboration with the regional branch of the journalists’ association (Ordine dei Giornalisti), with the aim of:
- informing the journalists about the ECITIJENS project,
- presenting the EDSS platform as a result of 3-years of transnational cooperation
- discussing a possible regulatory framework for its adoption.
The journalists learned how the E-CITIJENS Emergency Decision Support System is designed as to support emergency management by collecting information from social media networks, institutional sources as well as sensors and swiftly identify critical situations with respect to three target risks: floods, forestfires and earthquakes.
The growth of social media technologies has increased the public’s ability to mobilize and share information with each other. The ECITIJENS project is taking this as an opportunity for a better involvement of citizen in contributing to the management of crises, which, could be usefully channeled also towards a better cooperation with journalists as well.
With this training, they enhanced their knowledge of an innovative tool to allow citizens journalism as well, as a way to help officials and first responders gather up-to-date emergency-related information and optimize their response efforts.
With these events the ECITIJENS Awareness Raising Campaign moves forward with more Civil Protection insiders aware of the potential of the EDSS and of interregional cooperation.
START DATE
Jun 17, 2019 h.20:00
END DATE
Jun 18, 2019 h.18:30
PLACE
Centro Funzionale P.C. Molise
ADDRESS
SP52, 86020 Campochiaro CB
CONTACT
Maria Luisa Esposito
the partnership will meet in Campochiaro
Increasing the security of the Adriatic basin through participatory social-media based tools for the management and prevention of natural and anthropogenic risks is the main objective of the E-CITIJENS - “Civil Protection Emergency DSS based on CITIzen Journalism to ENhance Safety of the Adriatic Basin” - one of the most ambitious cross-border cooperation initiatives aimed at enhancing security ever carried out in the Adriatic basin area.
In recent years, the area was influenced by frequent and various natural and man-made disasters, which caused significant human losses, damages to the environment and infrastructures, showing the need for a more effective and efficient cross-border cooperation aimed at both raising awareness about resilient behaviour and promoting cross-border policies as well as the harmonisation of emergency legislation.
The added value of the E-CITIJENS project lies precisely in its cooperative approach and in the willingness to adopt common legislative and operational strategies, methodologies and tools to respond to challenges that by their nature do not know borders.
E-CITIJENS was officially launched on 17-19 June 2019 in Campobasso (Italy) with a two-days event organised by the Lead Partner Molise Region. The event brought together the delegations from the 9 partners organisations: the Split-Dalmatia County, the Veneto Region, the University of Split, EEIG Eurelations, the University of Bologna, the Municipality of Pescara, the Adriatic Ionian Euroregion, the Zara County Rural Development Agency, the Region of Istria.
On Tuesday 18th June, the official Kick-off Meeting was held at the headquarters of the Civil Protection Molise Region at Campochiaro (Campobasso, Italy). Project partners discussed the work plan, roles and responsibilities and the timetable that will be the basis for the activities to be carried out in the next years.
Here you can download the Kick-off meeting agenda
