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The RESPOND-A’s virtual General Assembly has taken place on 27-28 January 2021. On 27 January all work packages were presented and task leaders also announced the current status of their work and plans for the future. On 28 January, all the technical aspects of the project were presented. Thank you to all the partners for their commitment and ideas! The project has just passed the 6 month mark and the future is looking bright! Follow-up on our activities at www.respond-a-project.eu

As a project dedicated to increase the capabilities of first responders, RESPOND-A welcomes the European Commission’s report (DG ECHO) ­ “Overview of Natural and Man-made Disaster Risks the European Union May Face“. The EU publication presents the latest available evidence on disaster risks, such as floods, wildfires or diseases, that threaten the EU, drawing on the national risk assessments developed by the EU Member States and on the Commission’s cross-sectoral policy and scientific work. In light of the climate emergency, RESPOND-A also welcomes the recent creation of the Knowledge Centre for Earth Observation, by the Joint Research Centre, within the European Commission.  The Knowledge Centre will contribute to greater monitoring capabilities of the EU’s atmosphere and environmental landscape, therefore providing quicker preparedness actions whenever natural disasters strike.

We are pleased to announce that the official kick-off- meeting of the project RESPOND-A took place online according to the below e-mail of the coordinator: Dear all Based on doodle results the VTC will take place on May 28th @13:00 CEST with a duration of 2 hours. You will receive a WebEx invitation so you can update your calendar. Agenda and Minutes of Meeting (MoM) will be kept by the Coordination Team. The agenda of the meeting is according the following table: ID Activity Duration (hh:mm) Time Presenter 1 Arrival and welcome 00:10 13:00 – 13:10 EUC/George K 2 Project Overview 00:20 13:10 – 13:30 EUC/George K 3 WP2: First Responders requirements, use cases and architecture design 00:15 13:30 – 13:45 Valencia Port/Joan Meseguer 4 WP3: Wearables and incident area sensors, triage and forensics 00:15 13:45 – 14:00 Hellenic Instruments 5 WP4: Drones and robots upgraded operations for First Responders 00:15 14:00 – 14:15 Probotek/George Delaportas 6 WP5: Common Operating Picture through AR and MCX 00:15 14:15 – 14:30 Vicomtech/ Juan Arraiza 7 WP6: Training of First Responders in RESPOND-A novel technologies 00:15 14:30 – 14:45 Pau Costa 8 WP7: Pilots Validation and Evaluation 00:15 14:45 -15:00 DEMOKRITOS 9 WP8: Dissemination, exploitation, promotion and knowledge transfer 00:15 15:00 – 15:15 PSCE/Marie-Christine Bonnamour 10 WP9: Ethics requirements 00:15 15:15 – 15:30 EUC/ Christiana Markou 11 Feedback and Discussion 00:30 15:30 – 16:00 ALL