ANYWHERE

ANYWHERE: An operational decision support system for proactive climate emergencies management.

ANYWHERE is a H2020 Implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, new marketing method, or new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations. ISO 37500:2014(en) Guidance on outsourcing, section 3.6: new or changed object (3.6.1) realizing or redistributing value.

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action that proposes an operational Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (MH-EWS) for climate emergencies able to translate the most advanced meteorological forecasts into Impact forecasting products (see ANYWHERE Catalogue).

This impact forecasting concept of ANYWHERE is an

Implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, new marketing method, or new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations. ISO 37500:2014(en) Guidance on outsourcing, section 3.6: new or changed object (3.6.1) realizing or redistributing value.

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disruption in the field of Civil Protection and

Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action.
Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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Management. Thus, AI is used to integrate the hazard forecastings served by the MH-EWS with high resolution local impact models automatically combining them with the regional layers of exposure and vulnerability in the Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action. Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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command centres (EMCs). All this information, usually available but not interconnected, is now processed in the multi-

Effect of uncertainty on objectives.

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decision support platform A4EU (ANYWHERE for Europe), to automatically identify the affected critical points, including their characteristics and location, and other advanced services designed to allow the emergency

Actions taken during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected.

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specialist to focus on local IMPACTS, without the necessity to look into the details of the meteorological forecasts and triggers, selecting the most vulnerable locations (i.e. Schools, Train stations, Hospitals, Seveso facilities, etc.) instead of vast regions, supporting them to magnify their Actions taken during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected.

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capabilities.

These systems have been verified, tested and operationally demonstrated in 7 Pilot Sites involving

The organization and management of resources and responsibilities for addressing all aspects of emergencies and effectively respond to a hazardous event or a disaster.

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Centres, covering all the climatic range in EU during more than one year, showing excellent results in a number of events, some over 50-year return period. The collected experiences have been presented as success stories in the ANYWHERE final Workshop held in Brussels (October 2019) showing the huge innovative potential of the ANYWHERE real-time implementations.

The success stories have been completed by the operational implementation of the ANYWHERE self-protection and self-awareness tools to trigger automatic warnings to increase the

The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions.

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of citizens and communities at Effect of uncertainty on objectives.

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and activate self-protection plans. They include the A4Campsites, A4Snow, A4Schools and A4Grids as well as the municipal version of the platform, A4Cities, which has been tested in several municipalities.

The most important success of ANYWHERE is to have supported the participant EMCs to move forward towards a “new paradigm”: transforming the emergency response from reactive to proactive (starting before that the emergency occurs) thanks to the ANYWHERE high-resolution impact forecasts integrated in the A4EU platform, which allows a better management of the emergency and a significant reduction of damages. The success achieved is build on the co-creation and co-ownership concept allowing the users’ needs and expertise to guide the entire innovative process, from the design to the implementation and the operation.