ITALY CROATIA CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION PROGRAMME
START DATE
Nov 11, 2021 h.
On 11 November 2021 took place the Work Cafè organised by Agencija za ruralni razvoj Zadarske zupanije AGRRA.
On 11 November 2021 took place the Work Cafè organised by Agencija za ruralni razvoj Zadarske zupanije AGRRA.
From 11 November, in fact, the AGGRA started organizing a series of meetings aimed at engaging both local civil protection and citizens into informally discussing the role of Civil Protection as well as how to cooperate with it in case of hazardous situations.
This first Work Café focused on:
START DATE
May 03, 2022 h.
On 3- 7 May 2022 a Work Cafè was organized in Molise by Regione Molise, Lead Partner of the ECITIJENS project, in collaboration with its Civil Protection Department.
On 3- 7 May 2022 a Work Cafè was organized in Molise by Regione Molise, Lead Partner of the ECITIJENS project, in collaboration with its Civil Protection Department. It was aimed at improving the expertise of professionals on decision-making and management tools, such as the ECITIJENS EDSS platform, as an innovative technology for crisis management in Molise, a region particularly vulnerable to natural risks.
The work café was held with professional accessibility certifiers and it saw the participation of some journalists, architects, engineers, surveyors, geologists, agricultural experts, as well as regional officials of the Civil Protection Service who participated in the training that took them to receiving a professional qualification for the assessment of building accessibility after seismic occurrences.
During the event, a specific section was organized only for journalists, in collaboration with the regional branch of the journalists’ association (Ordine dei Giornalisti), with the aim of:
- informing the journalists about the ECITIJENS project,
- presenting the EDSS platform as a result of 3-years of transnational cooperation
- discussing a possible regulatory framework for its adoption.
The journalists learned how the E-CITIJENS Emergency Decision Support System is designed as to support emergency management by collecting information from social media networks, institutional sources as well as sensors and swiftly identify critical situations with respect to three target risks: floods, forestfires and earthquakes.
The growth of social media technologies has increased the public’s ability to mobilize and share information with each other. The ECITIJENS project is taking this as an opportunity for a better involvement of citizen in contributing to the management of crises, which, could be usefully channeled also towards a better cooperation with journalists as well.
With this training, they enhanced their knowledge of an innovative tool to allow citizens journalism as well, as a way to help officials and first responders gather up-to-date emergency-related information and optimize their response efforts.
With these events the ECITIJENS Awareness Raising Campaign moves forward with more Civil Protection insiders aware of the potential of the EDSS and of interregional cooperation.
START DATE
Jul 27, 2021 h.
PLACE
Aurum - La Fabbrica Delle Idee in Pescara
The third E-CITIJENS project meeting takes place on 27 and 28 July 2021
The municipality of Pescara (Comune di Pescara), partner of the E-CITIJENS project, hosted the third Project Meeting. The event was held in hybrid form and took place at the Aurum - La Fabbrica Delle Idee in Pescara.
One year ahead of the official closure of the project, the partners reviewed the progress of activities and decided how to keep it moving toward its successful accomplishment.
After a long time without meeting in person, this was an occasion for reuniting and networking. During the first part of the meeting, the Regione Molise took part with Adolfo Fabrizio Colagiovanni and Lorenzo Rossi presenting project management and coordination activities such as management, steering and monitoring as well as financial reporting. Adriatic Ionian Euroregion (PP) with Lisa Esposito presented communication activities including media relations, digital activities and events linked to the E-CITIJENS and Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna with Professor Giacomo Antonioni presenting the "social media based" model for a Civil Protection Emergency Management System.
In the second part of the meeting, Regione Molise - Servizio di Protezione Civile represented by Antonio Cardillo, supported by technical developers, presented the status quo and functioning of the #EDSS Platform with the aim of conveying the idea that social networks are data sources that, together with institutional ones and those from local sensors, can help identify emergency scenarios to be used by Civil Protection to organize the mobilization of human and material resources. Moreover, the platform processes social media alerts thanks to a taxonomy and an algorithm that assigns scores based on the level of risk.
The workshop saw the contribution of other partners involved in the activity, such as Protezione Civile Veneto, FGAG - Fakultet građevinarstva, arhitekture i geodezije u Splitu and Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.
