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This platform - EMApp - (an app & Command Centre Module) is dedicated to support first responders, incident commanders,

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managers & event organisers coordinate incidents/events more effectively, communicate with peers, superiors and multi services more efficiently and produce reports more quickly and accurately.

AIDA is a chatbot builder that allows you to create interactive chatbots that can engage populations on popular chat apps like Facebook messenger. Chatbots built by AIDA can send surveys, respond to keyword triggers, and schedule outgoing messages. AIDA stands for “artificial intelligence development assistant” and helps humanitarians and development professionals engage with constituencies on widely adopted messenger apps.

The essential factors of an event such as security and rescue forces, affected civilians, the terrain, weather conditions and other entities are mapped as simulation elements. All

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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forces can be displayed aggregated or down to the single unit level and the user can modify their parameters as the

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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unfolds. Logistical considerations, such as fuel consumption and supply, repair and medical care of injured, are influenced by the

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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The means to accomplish one or more tasks under specific conditions.

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of the simulated 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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forces. The

Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization.
Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation.
Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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staff has full control of a simulation run / Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization. Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation. Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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, including but not limited to pause and run faster than real-time, add events, change efficiency of forces, etc.

In a typical GESI-based exercise setup, emergency managers are operating in their operational environment with no direct interaction with GESI. 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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orders issued by the emergency managers are simulated within CAE GESI. Emergency managers are then able to see the impact of their decisions within the simulation environment. Data is captured to evaluate the success or failure of decisions. Emergency plans can then be adjusted to address any resource gaps and areas of improvement.

CAE’s GESI allows to simulate and to train for a wide range of possible disasters, such as natural and manmade disasters, acts of terror, epidemics and pandemics and other

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scenarios. The system offers a spectrum of threat scenarios for

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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professionals to plan, test and train their strategies.

CAE’s GESI can be used for

Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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of command personnel (civil, military or combined as CIMIC) as well as for exercises to efficiently and realistically train and prepare for any scenario in the scope of

Holistic management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organization and provides a framework for building resilience, with the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of the organization’s key interested parties, reputation, brand and value­creating activities, as well as effectively restoring operational capabilities.
Note 1 to entry: Crisis management also involves the management of preparedness, mitigation response, and continuity or recovery in the event of an incident, as well as management of the overall programme through training, rehearsals and reviews to ensure the preparedness, response and continuity plans stay current and up-to-date.

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. The simulation environment allows its users to be prepared for very complex scenarios requiring close cooperation of local, governmental and international organizations.

Besides Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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, CAE GESI allows emergency managers to plan and analyze any type of scenario. The simulation environment allows the user to simulate any imaginable emergency scenario to perform analysis of potential threats on critical infrastructures, evaluate the deployment of forces and means, identify security gaps, define counter measures, check and optimize emergency plans.

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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Building

A device, equipment or piece of software used to carry out a particular process or procedure.

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was developed in the frame of the H2020 IN-PREP project (An INtegrated next generation

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

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programme for improving effective inter-organisational

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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capacity in complex environments of disasters and causes of crises).  The goal of the IN-PREP Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives. DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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Building A device, equipment or piece of software used to carry out a particular process or procedure.

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is to help

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managers practice strategic decion making in transboundary crises. The tool focuses in the the transboundary crisis preparedness. Users are allowed to make a plan, create a scenario with various critical incidents, define testing criteria, execute, asses their level and adapt. The Scenario Building Tool can be static (which consists of combing different elements such as hazards, actors, assets, pre-set of behaviours and event sequence) or dynamic (where the scenario runs by animating links between comprising elements). Users can use both real and simulated data in concetrated or dispersed geographic areas, and adjust the scenario creating alternative evolutions. 

In order to better understand its usage please view the on line demonstration available in YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHYWMRzJQFs

Seentags accepts incoming text messages and breaks the contents up into categories, without requiring you to tell the system in advance what your categories are.  Once the information is in the Seentags system, the user can provide feedback to ‘train’ Seentags so that it learns to correctly interpret new report formats.  With a built in pattern detector, you only

Prerequisite identified as necessary to achieve an intended outcome, implied or stated.

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to tell the system what category the text is one time before it does it automatically with all future messages as well as correcting all previous entries.  Text separators such as commas, dashes or periods are no longer needed in order to define, categorize and organize incoming information. Seentags automatically puts your data into a CSV file that you can then export for your future needs.

SE-Star uses a Biomimetic control architecture based on navigation (Hippocampus), action selection (Basal ganglia) and planning (Frontal cortex). Use-cases are: design of critical infrastructures and business processes, supervision (video & crowd) operators’

Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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, data generation for deep neural networks Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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(video & dataset generation), decision support, what-if

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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exploration and collaborative systems testbed.

SE-Star can provide information from high level (density, alarms and situation reports) to low level (individual’s information, devices’ status). It can simulate between 5000 and 10000 peoples on one computer in real time and can work in distributed mode pushing limits (tested with 80000 peoples on 10 IntelTM NUC computers). SE-Star has been used in the EU projects (Opti-Alert, SECURE-Ed, iCore) and in THALES projects covering airports (Pisa), train stations (Gare du Nord) or crowded places (Mecca). Easily extendable, it has been connected to real systems (crowd monitoring, airport supervision) using standard interfaces and protocols (SOAP, REST, RTSP).

A database driven web site that documents the available Crisis Management solutions. The PoS includes information on the experiences with a solution (i.e. results and outcomes of Trials), the needs it addresses, the type of practitioner organisations that have used it, the regulatory conditions that apply, societal impact consideration, a glossary, and the design of the Trials.

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aims to document all the relevant available solutions of

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management (CM) across Europe, as well as the strategic CM gaps in a way that facilitates the

A solution is a means that contributes to a crisis management function. A solution is either one or more processes or one or more tools with related procedures.

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discovery. Key feature of the PoS is the automated matching of the "similar solutions" and "solutions (potentially) addressing this

Difference between the existing capabilities of responders and what was actually needed for effective and timely response.

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Third parties are encouraged to syndicate parts of the PoS content and present them on their own sites under the terms of the Creative Common Attribution 4.0 International license.

EMT faciliates seamless exchange of information for stakeholders in the

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management. Information is presented to the EMT users in the most suitable and comfortable way, taking into account their background and role in the

Holistic management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organization and provides a framework for building resilience, with the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of the organization’s key interested parties, reputation, brand and value­creating activities, as well as effectively restoring operational capabilities.
Note 1 to entry: Crisis management also involves the management of preparedness, mitigation response, and continuity or recovery in the event of an incident, as well as management of the overall programme through training, rehearsals and reviews to ensure the preparedness, response and continuity plans stay current and up-to-date.

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. This is accomplished by a user domain tailored message representation. Each user

Person or group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives.
Note 1 to entry: The concept of organization includes, but is not limited to, sole trader, company, corporation, firm, enterprise, authority, partnership, charity or institution, or part or combination thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private.
Note 2 to entry: For organizations with more than one operating unit, a single operating unit can be defined as an organization.

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can see the same data in its usual working environment, e.g. using their specific icons, colours, and textual representation.

EMT provides a multi-user web  interface that can be configured to present crises relevant information to users in their own language and using the users' domain specific textual representation, text-colours, icons, map features, etc., while filtering out information that is of no concern to them. Information that is typically shared through EMT includes the number, type, location and status of available resources, sensor values, hazard areas, alerts, commands sent and fulfilled and situation reports. Also references to external data like photos or map layers can be handled.

EMT users can enter information into the system in their own language. This information is translated on the fly and shared with other users. Translation relies on predefined "message templates"  consisting of predefined text that can be translated but also variables that users can enter on the fly and that are forwarded "as is"  to other users.

Some advantages as compared to state of the art COP systems:

• Accessed using a web browser and requires no local installation.
• User/Task-specific GUI configurations simplify usage and eliminate the

  Prerequisite identified as necessary to achieve an intended outcome, implied or stated.

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  for extended

  Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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  .
• Efficient management of a crisis, even in ad-hoc multi-organisational and multilingual settings.
• Local installations can be provided and configured to exchange information with other EMT instances if needed for redundancy and to overcome internet outages.

The flood warning system includes network-ready software to facilitate data management: graphical map displays, activation of alarms, instant messaging, hydrological forecasting and analysis tools. The software package is an easy-to-use, menu-driven program and is capable of feeding public or intra-agency flood warning web sites.

In a trial, one or more innovative solutions are used by the participants and assessed in the context of a simulated

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. For a useful Assessment is a test, examination or similar, designed to assess a candidate’s knowledge, understanding or skills in a defined area. DRIVER+ note 1: candidate can be a person or a solution, example given: assessment of a solution in a Trial.

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, the

The software tools, middleware and methodology to systematically conduct Trials and evaluate solutions within an appropriate environment. An “appropriate environment” is a testing environment (life and/or virtual) where the trialling of solutions is carried out using a structured, all-encompassing and mutual learning approach. The Test-bed can enable existing facilities to connect and exchange data, providing a pan-European arena of virtually connected facilities and crisis labs where users, providers, researchers, policy makers and citizens jointly and iteratively can progress on new approaches or solutions to emerging needs. 

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offers several tools for support and a common information space to share messages between solutions, and with

(Crisis management) system currently in operational use.

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. Additionally, multiple simulators can be connected to create a realistic, yet fictive incident environment. The technical infrastructure allows for connecting solutions and (Crisis management) system currently in operational use.

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alike, such that they can share messages with each other inside the common information space (CIS). The technical infrastructure also allows to simulators to be connected together, such that they can simulate an incident and feed the simulated incident to the solutions and legacy systems. This is done by using the common simulation space (CSS) and the CIS-CSS gateways. In the 

An event for systematically assessing solutions for current and emerging needs in such a way that practitioners can do this following a pragmatic and systematic approach.

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management tool (TMT), several scenarios can be created to assess specific aspects of the trialled solutions. In the 

Observer participant who witnesses the exercise while remaining separate from exercise activities.
Note 1 to entry: Observers may be part of the evaluation process.

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support tool (OST), Observer participant who witnesses the exercise while remaining separate from exercise activities. Note 1 to entry: Observers may be part of the evaluation process.

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checklists and questionnaires can be created and used by observers and participants during the execution of a An event for systematically assessing solutions for current and emerging needs in such a way that practitioners can do this following a pragmatic and systematic approach.

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. The after-action-review tool (AAR) logs all checklists and questionnaires as well as all messages flowing though the CIS and CSS. This data is stored and made available for

Process of estimating the effectiveness, efficiency, utility and relevance of a service or facility.

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Method of data collection in which the situation of interest is watched and the relevant facts, actions and behaviours are recorded.

DRIVER+ Note 1: Please consider also the notes in the original definition.

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Support

A device, equipment or piece of software used to carry out a particular process or procedure.

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is the part of the DRIVER+

The software tools, middleware and methodology to systematically conduct Trials and evaluate solutions within an appropriate environment. An “appropriate environment” is a testing environment (life and/or virtual) where the trialling of solutions is carried out using a structured, all-encompassing and mutual learning approach. The Test-bed can enable existing facilities to connect and exchange data, providing a pan-European arena of virtually connected facilities and crisis labs where users, providers, researchers, policy makers and citizens jointly and iteratively can progress on new approaches or solutions to emerging needs. 

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software intended to gather observations during a

An event for systematically assessing solutions for current and emerging needs in such a way that practitioners can do this following a pragmatic and systematic approach.

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. It will allow a registered

Observer participant who witnesses the exercise while remaining separate from exercise activities.
Note 1 to entry: Observers may be part of the evaluation process.

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to input their observations to the application defining the context e.g. type of event it relates to, phase of the

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, type of the problem, its importance, and specifying the observed issue itself possibly indicating other related observations from the system database. It will attach automatically an author of the Method of data collection in which the situation of interest is watched and the relevant facts, actions and behaviours are recorded. DRIVER+ Note 1: Please consider also the notes in the original definition.

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, a timestamp, location. An Observer participant who witnesses the exercise while remaining separate from exercise activities. Note 1 to entry: Observers may be part of the evaluation process.

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will be able to illustrate the observation by taking picture, recording video or audio. All the data will be stored in the central database. A registered Analyst will be able to access the gathered observations in the tabular form, orchestrate them on the timeline and/or a situation map group them and develop

Result of the lessons learning process.

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out of them. An analyst will be also able to formulate recommendations as the final stage of the process.