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InterregIIIC programme

INTERREG IIIC is an EU-funded programme that helps Europe’s regions form partnerships to work together on common projects. These enable regions to share knowledge and experience that will help them develop new solutions to economic, social and environmental challenges.

Electronic Risk Management Architecture (ERMA)

The ERMA project (ERMA is an acronym for Electronic Risk Management Architecture) aims to build a reference platform for risk management in the domains of natural as well as man-made disasters with a specific focus on needs of small and medium-sized communities. In this context communities might be public bodies as well as private sector organisations with share obligations and duties for risk prevention and response. ERMA strives to employ the accruing information of an incident in combination with existing technology in order to provide risk assessment and communicate services in particular with the citizens before, during and after it occurs. With ERMA, small and medium-sized communities will be assisted in the creation and efficient management of issues inherent to their respective responsibities.

TELECITIES

TeleCities is the major European network of cities committed to leadership in the Information and Knowledge Society. Established in 1993 in the framework of Eurocities, TeleCities is open to democratically elected city governments as well as to business and scientific partners.

TELEREGIONS

TeleRegions is an association promoting the development of Information Society Technologies in European Regions.

APNEE(-TU)

Air Pollution Network for Early warning and on-line information Exchange in Europe (RTD + Take-Up): Project APNEE contributed to the European research on systems and services for the citizens by enabling citizens to access and exchange information on air pollution in urban regions via dif-ferent information channels. The APNEE project take-up trial, called APNEE-TU, adapted and tested the APNEE systems to and at additional user sites in Europe using new technologies (like handhelds, PDAs as well as new mobile protocols like GPRS, and in Spain and Germany even UMTS) for the dissemination of air pollution information.

OSIRIS

Operational Solutions For The Management Of Inundation Risks In The Information Society - User-based design of ICT tools for flood risk communication and warning in the Loire and Oder/Odra river basins.

USE-ME.GOV

Development of a virtual common interface software between the public administration and the mobile operators (IST RTD). Project USE-ME.GOV investigated the use of mobile devices for eGovernment services for smaller authorities. Results have been an OSA/ParlayX service platform for mGovernment services and business models for the operation of such services.

Specific support action NARTUS (Forum on Public Safety Communications)

The SSA project proposal NARTUS is focused on creating a European platform and roadmap for future public safety communication and will help to facilitate European integration in the area of Public Safety with particular focus on public safety communications and information systems.

ORCHESTRA

The overall goal of ORCHESTRA is to design and implement an open service oriented software architecture that will improve the interoperability among actors involved in Multi-Risk Management. Some of the results of ORCHESTRA will be used as input to the INSPIRE and GMES initiatives. Orchestra is an Integrated Project partly funded by the European Commission's 6th framework program, under the priority 2.3.2.9 Improving Risk Management.

WIN

WIN is an Integrated Project partly funded by the European Commission's 6th framework program, under the priority 2.3.2.9 "Improving Risk Management". WIN will design an info-structure architecture based on state-of-the-art information technologies, protocols, standards, and at the same time it will work as an interoperable with existing risk management services. For these purposes WIN will investigate multiple stakeholder business and organizational models appropriate to the future deployment of the info-structure.

OASIS

The objective of OASIS is to define and develop an Information Technology framework based on an open and flexible architecture and using standards, existing or proposed by OASIS that will be the basis of a European Disaster and Emergency Management system.

MEDIN

The European Mediterranean Disaster Information Network (EU-MEDIN) is an initiative of DG Research that will foster co-ordinated and increased access to data and expert know-how before, during, and after a disaster strikes. The availability of reliable and timely information could contribute to our knowledge for reducing impacts of hazards and risks and bring about improved disaster preparedness in Europe in the near future.

The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)

GMES represents a concerted effort to bring data and information providers together with users, so they can better understand each other and make environmental and security-related information available to the people who need it through enhanced or new services.

The INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe initiative (INSPIRE)

INSPIRE aims at making available relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information for the purpose of formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community policy-making.

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC)

OGC is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.