PReparedness against CBRNE threats through cOmmon Approaches between security praCTItioners and the VulnerablE civil society
CBRNe Excellence through Human-Centric Response
Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear & Explosive (CBRNe) incidents, whether accidental or terrorist-based, can have a high impact on society. PROACTIVE aims to increase practitioner effectiveness in managing large and diverse groups of people in a CBRNe environment.
Project Consortium
Main Goal
The main goal of the PROACTIVE project is to enhance pre-paredness against and response to a CBRNe incident through a better harmonisation of procedures between various categories of practitioners, and a better understanding of the needs of vulnerable citizen groups.
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PROACTIVE CBRNe Crisis Communication System (CCS)
The PROACTIVE CBRNe Crisis Communication System is an innovative response tool which improves two-way communication between civil society and first responders. It also increases preparedness through its CBRNe Library. It is composed of three tools: the Web Collaborative Platform for LEAs, the Modular App for Practitioners, and the Mobile App for the public.
The Mobile App for Practitioners and the Mobile App for Vulnerable Citizens are available as one single app, with the target end-user (practitioner or vulnerable citizen) being differentiated by access rights, available on Google Play and App store. All three tools are powered by the dedicated PROACTIVE CBRNe backend.
PROACTIVE CBRNe Mobile App
Developed by Rinisoft, the PROACTIVE CBRNe Mobile App for Vulnerable Citizens is a cornerstone of the PROACTIVE Crisis Communication System (CCS).
It addresses the critical market gap for citizen-oriented disaster tools and works to close the "accessibility gap" in emergency management.
Key Features
Incident List
Available to all users, the incident list showcases past and ongoing incidents. It also displays them on a scrollable map.
Report an Incident
Citizens who are registered users may use the app to report an incident to LEAs. LEAs can monitor the information received, improving their situation awareness, and provide regular updates about ongoing incidents to citizens through notifications (both push and in-app).
CBRNe Library
The CBRNe Library is a repository for preparedness information materials and is available to all users. LEAs may use the Library to store confidential information shared only amongst other first responders.
News
The news section provides third party information about any ongoing CBRNe incident. Other features include: an About section, LEA and Civil Society contacts, Help and FAQ, Privacy Policy, Other Apps, My Profile and Settings features.
Project Results
01.
Deliverables
Deliverable 4.1 - Report on the High-level Architecture design including an interface control document
Deliverable 4.2 - Developed Web Collaborative platform
Deliverable 4.3 - Developed Modular App for Practitioners
Deliverable 5.3 - Requirements of the Mobile Application for Vulnerable Citizens and revised technical specifications
Deliverable 5.4 - Developed-Mobile-App-for-vulnerable-citizens
02.
Publications
Multimodal Neural Network for Detecting and Classifying Deviations in Poultry Behavior
The paper focuses on a workshop carried out with practitioners to test the first mobile app prototype. The results demonstrate that the prototype mobile app is in line with practitioners expectations but that there is room for improvement, such as more visuals, and new features, such as translation, should be added. Looking forward, the app will be updated before being tested in upcoming field training exercises.
CBRNe, a universally designed app for that?
The paper examines the results from four workshops held with the potential end-users of the PROACTIVE CBRNe mobile app, recruited from vulnerable groups. Following the MoSCoW methodology, requirements were established and their relevance to the Universal Design principles discussed.
Universal Design & the PROACTIVE Project CBRNe App
The article lays out the methodology PROACTIVE is currently employing in order to create and validate the disaster app for the public and states some core requirements already co-developed.
CBRNe and vulnerable citizens: co-creating an app for that
The article lays out the methodology PROACTIVE will employ in order to create and validate the disaster app.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 832981