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
Oct 22, 2019 h.9.00
PLACE
Briig Boutique hotel ****
ADDRESS
SPLIT, Prilaz braće Kaliterna 1, 21000 Split, 21000, Croatia
CONTACT
Tea Mateta
The E-CITIJENS project meeting.
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.
Here you can find the agenda: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:3ea1424b-c3fb-4bb6-b3cd-77c9e5d9f9f5
