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The E-CITIJENS project holds its II Project Meeting and Steering Committee on 11 December 2020.

Published on 22/10/2020 (last modified 24/08/2021)

Project Meeting and Steering Committee.

The 1st Steering Committee and Project Meeting of the E-CITIJENS Project was held in Split (Croatia) on 24 and 25 October. The event was hosted by the Split-Dalmatia County.

The event was held at the BRIIG Boutique Hotel in Split, at 9:00, with the project partners discussing the progress of activities and the achievement of the first results. So far, together with management and communication activities, through three Thematic Task Forces, project partners have implemented a survey to assess current risks scenarios, emergency management legislation and the level of use of social media and crowdsourcing during emergencies in both Italy and Croatia. The survey was important to acquire information about emergency management systems and sensory networks currently present in the cooperation countries; indicators and parameters used for defining emergency severity scales and to activate prevention, warning and rescue measures; historical maritime or land natural, industrial and technological outbreaks and the effect of climate change and anthropic activities. Civil Protection legislation was also investigated so to review existing rules and to highlight legislative constraints that may influence technical structures in fulfilling risk prevention and management actions. International cooperation, territorial limitations and engagement rules were also pinpointed. Lastly, the survey allowed to collect information about previous or undergoing projects that developed social media and crowdsourcing, the adoption of social media as source of information during crises or emergencies by Croatian and Italian Civil Protection, and the most used social platforms.

From 14:45 to 17:00 an open Workshop was held, during which the scientific partners of the project, namely the University of Bologna and the University of Split, illustrated the survey, its objectives, methodology and results to the public and local stakeholders.
After their presentations, participants were divided into three Thematic Groups, which, separately,:
– discussed the reclassification of risk scenarios and their operational management, based on identified common metrics and shared procedures;
– analysed existing normative rules and procedures and their level of uniformity across the borders;
– investigated the quality and location of "social media and crowdsourcing" flows of information during hazardous events and will identify both risk-specific semantic ontologies and "fakes" identification criteria with a view to determine a "common language".

The results of the Thematic Groups were presented in a final plenary session.

The workshop was crucial in progressing towards the definition of measures for the enhancement, adaptation and harmonisation of the two systems and of a cross-border functional model of "social media based" Civil Protection emergency system.

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