The municipality of Pescara (Comune di Pescara), partner of the E-CITIJENS project, hosted the third Project Meeting. The event was held in hybrid form and took place at the Aurum - La Fabbrica Delle Idee in Pescara.

One year ahead of the official closure of the project, the partners reviewed the progress of activities and decided how to keep it moving toward its successful accomplishment.

After a long time without meeting in person, this was an occasion for reuniting and networking. During the first part of the meeting, the Regione Molise took part with Adolfo Fabrizio Colagiovanni and Lorenzo Rossi presenting project management and coordination activities such as management, steering and monitoring as well as financial reporting. Adriatic Ionian Euroregion (PP) with Lisa Esposito presented communication activities including media relations, digital activities and events linked to the E-CITIJENS and Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna with Professor Giacomo Antonioni presenting the "social media based" model for a Civil Protection Emergency Management System.

In the second part of the meeting, Regione Molise - Servizio di Protezione Civile represented by Antonio Cardillo, supported by technical developers, presented the status quo and functioning of the #EDSS Platform with the aim of conveying the idea that social networks are data sources that, together with institutional ones and those from local sensors, can help identify emergency scenarios to be used by Civil Protection to organize the mobilization of human and material resources. Moreover, the platform processes social media alerts thanks to a taxonomy and an algorithm that assigns scores based on the level of risk.

The workshop saw the contribution of other partners involved in the activity, such as Protezione Civile Veneto, FGAG - Fakultet građevinarstva, arhitekture i geodezije u Splitu and Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.

The Fourth E-CITIJENS PROJECT MEETING took place on 2nd and 3rd December 2021 in Venice and it was hosted by Regione Veneto, partner of the E-CITIJENS project and its civil protection Department.
It was an occasion for project partners to meet again and discuss project progress. Partners were thrilled to gather together and take the final, crucial steps toward the creation of a cross-border and innovative "social media based" Emergency Decision Support System platform.

After the testing phase of the platform, the project in fact involved decision-makers in adopting a regulatory framework for the adoption of the system.

On 10 May 2022, a Work Cafè was held in Dubrovnik as part of the E-CITIJENS Awareness Raising Campaign. 

Grad Dubrovnik held a work café at the city's civil protection headquarters with the participation of members of civil protection and of other emergency services who were informed about the ongoing EDSS pilot deployments, discussed the further involvement of all emergency forces in the pilot testing and who discussed the involvement of the general public.

While planning these activities, Grad Dubrovnik is also preparing to host the E-CITIJENS Final Conference, which will be held in June.

Last week, the Work Café was organized by the Split-Dalmatia County with main objective to present and discuss the final draft of ESR Framework and steps towards drafting of Civil Protection Adaption Plan.

The meeting was attended by representatives of stakeholders from civil protection system in the Split-Dalmatia County.

The ESR framework identified the existing situation with regards to civil protection system and listed recommendations and guidelines to include EDSS in the civil protection system of Split-Dalmatia County.

ESR Framework included basic requirements, strategic overview, current state analysis on partners level, as well as recommendations in six key areas: legislation, plans and procedures, operational centers, early warning systems, training and exercises, and cross-border functional center.