Month: December 2020

RESPOND-A First Training program and registration

RESPOND-A will organize its first training session on 10th and 11th of December 2020, based on the “Use-case 3: Port of Valencia”. The current restrictions of the different participant countries due to COVID-19 made impossible to organize a face-to-face event. That it way it was decided to prepare a training session in an online environment by taking advantage of new technologies. The training session will focus on the study case of Valencia Port, where two separate incidents occur: an oil spill and a crash between two trucks producing a fire. In this sense, the different technical partners provide technological solutions to address both situations while First Responders are going to handle the situation in a virtual environment by following a discussion-based decision-making process. The first day will be dedicated to the “User story 2: Crash of two trucks” and the second day will focus on the “User story 1: Oil spill”; both days will run tools presentations, training exercises and questionnaires and open discussions. If you are interested, please contact Guillem Canaleta (Pau Costa Foundation): gcanaleta@paucostafoundation.org The programme of both days is available below.

Clustering Webinar on New Technologies for First Responders

Dr. Georgios Boustras, Project Coordinator and Director of The Centre for Risk and Decision Sciences (CIRES), has presented RESPOND-A in the Clustering Webinar on New Technologies for First Responders, organized by Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE). The Clustering Webinar gathered 6 other projects (Search & Rescue, CURSOR, ASSISTANCE, RESPONDRONE, SIXTHSENSE and INGENIOUS) and about 120 partners form the consortia, to present the projects and discuss on the topic of end-user requirements for first responders technologies.