FIRESPILL overall objective is to enhance the capacity of Emergency Service Organizations to increase cross-border effectiveness in tackling natural and man-made disasters, decreasing the exposure of the populations to the impact of hazards and increasing the safety of the Croatian and Italian Adriatic basin by improving emergency prevention and management measures and instruments. Project joint activities will be implemented per each risk taken into consideration, aiming at: (a) the improvements of existing Emergency Services Regulatory System; (b) the improvement of Emergency Management Systems (EMS) in terms of new and innovative solutions; (c) the activation of citizens' participatory process. Specific actions will be dedicated to each main risk in chosen pilot areas (fire, oil spill and other marine hazards, earthquake, pandemic).

The enhancement of Emergency Service Organizations' operational capabilities will be ensured by provision of safety equipment, emergency land and sea vehicles, mobile command and control units, communications systems, and Advanced Training Center establishment. Improvements in the governance area will be achieved by comparing the current civil protection legislation in the two countries to identify their homogenization level and the arguments on which to intervene to improve the overall system efficiency.

Joint approaches will be adopted for the development of common monitoring strategies and a disaster management system, through strengthening administrative and technical capacities, raising awareness, educating, equipping, and preparing population and rescue teams.

The participatory process of citizenship will be activated addressing and altering the population role from "vulnerable element" to "active sensor" during hazardous occurrences, in order to: (a) obtain its contribution to Civil Protection activities of natural and manmade risk forecasting, prevention, monitoring and management within its own living territory; (b) to educate to a proper behavior and a thorough knowledge of risk issues and (c) to reduce the natural and man-made phenomena that lead to emergencies.