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Work Cafè organised by Agencija za ruralni razvoj Zadarske zupanije AGRRA

Work Cafè organised by Agencija za ruralni razvoj Zadarske zupanije AGRRA

Published on 11/11/2021 (last modified 22/11/2022)

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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:

  • presenting the ECITIJENS project
  • pilot deployments
  • the EDSS platform
  • the role of social media

On 3 - 7 May 2022 a Work Café was organized in Molise by Regione Molise.

On 3 - 7 May 2022 a Work Café was organized in Molise by Regione Molise.

Published on 03/05/2022 (last modified 22/11/2022)

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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.

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Published on 01/09/2021 (last modified 22/11/2022)

START DATE

Dec 19, 2019 h.2.00 pm

PLACE

University of Bologna, Italy Aula Roveri

ADDRESS

Via Zamboni, n. 38

The E-CITIJENS Meeting.

A project meeting was held in Bologna (Italy) on 19 November 2019 to put forward the creation of a “social media based” Emergency Decision Support System (EDSS) Platform that will be tested and used by the Italian and Croatian Civil Protection operational rooms.  The University of Bologna hosted the meeting which was scheduled to take place between 2:00 and 4:00 pm. The meeting saw the participation of all project partners and particularly of the scientific and technological developers of the platform: the Civil Protection Department of the Molise Region, the University of Split, EuRelations EEIG, the University of Bologna and the Zadar Agency.

With this activity the consortium boosts the creation of a "social media based" Civil Protection Emergency system based on the comparative reclassification of risk scenarios and legislation in Italy and Croatia as well as on a comparative overview of the use of social media and crowdsourcing across the two cooperation regions. The scientific group discussed details of the hardware and software technical and applicative specifications with particular focus on the analysis and aggregation of different real time data stemming from multiple data sources including emergency services’ in/output video interfaces as well as probes, sensors and those provided by citizens through social media posts.

Such data will be made available to both Italian and Croatian emergency agencies as a single and coherent risk scenario, thereby effectively improving the capacity of civil protection structures to predict and manage natural and man-made disasters. By including information stemming from the “social media” and using them to assist civil protection risk prevention and management measures, the E-CITIJENS project involves citizens as “active sensors” of emergencies. Citizens are put at the core of a structured awareness raising campaign, consisting of a set of diversified training and informative actions on how to cooperate with civil protection as well as on the proper behaviour and use of social media during hazardous occurrences. 

Here you can find the agenda: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:2b657e8e-f634-4197-a8e4-e536e6e6f966