Brief biography of partner
The CERIDES Centre-of-Excellence in Risk & Decision Sciences, within the European University Cyprus, is a leading Mediterranean institution of research and applied activities and praxis, in the domains of Occupational Safety & Health, Disaster and Emergency Management, and Safety & Security, which is fostering long-term international collaborations leading to safer and more secure societies in the region. As such, CERIDES’ Mission is to inspire, develop, and enhance the safety, security and resilience of societies, by conducting world-class research activities and by developing innovative processes, tools and services in the domains of Occupational Safety & Health, Disaster and Emergency Management, and Safety & Security, through holistic quintuple-helixed approaches that will be scientifically and academically sound, supportive to governance, promoting industry-innovation-entrepreneurship, civically and societally responsible, and environmentally conscious. EUC-CERIDES thus provides a holistic offering to academia, policy makers and the business (industrial) sectors of educational (taught), training, research and consulting solutions. EUC- CERIDES is technology oriented and has already developed tools and apps relevant to its work. Up to March 2022 EUC- CERIDES has achieved competitive funding of over €10 Mn from national (RIF) and mainly EU funds (HORIZON, DG-ECHO, ISF, ERASMUS, et.al).
Besides capacity and experience in general on Research-Management-Administration/Project-Management and Communication/Dissemination, EUC/CERIDES can more importantly address/ contribute through our expertise and capacities specifically in: overall context-awareness from the scientific/research point of view, regarding Risk Assessment, Occupational Safety & Health, Disaster Management, Civil Protection and more specifically engagement and mobilisation of Emergency/Response Services, and even more specifically on Safety in Operations of Emergency / First Responders.
Elicitation of “system requirements”; hence more specifically also the ‘methodologies’ and ‘approaches’ for elicitation/ identification/ evaluation of End-User-centric requirements for technologies/ capabilities for First Responders (for example, but not only, vis-a-vis the IFAFRI framework of capabilities, the INSARAG-guidelines for USAR, etc.).
Organization, coordination, and Evaluation of Large-Scale/Full-Scale Civil Protection Exercises (i.e. simulating real-world conditions); hence also testing capabilities/ systems/ technologies for Emergency/First Responders, especially vis-a-vis the Safety-&-Health-&-Wellbeing for FRs, and especially within the context of Wildfires (Forest-Fires-Fighting) and Earthquakes (USAR).
Role in the project
EUC/CERIDES serves as the Leader of Work Package 4 – Testing & Evaluation of Interoperability in Trials, of the DARE project, leading also: Task 4.3: Trial Implementation (M7-M36) and Task 4.4: Evaluation of results and feedback into Dashboard and SOP descriptions (M9-M26).
EUC/CERIDES contributes also to: Task 1.2 Developing methodology for mapping command and control structures and technical procedures (M2-M6); Task 1.3 Mapping command and control structures and technical procedures (M4-M8); Task 1.4 Analysis of the legal status of volunteers and their involvement across Member States (M5-M9); Task 3.3: Harmonising Technical Capabilities for wildfires (M3 – M22); Task 4.1: Developing testing and outcome objectives as well as evaluation criteria (M1-M9); Task 4.2: Trial methodology (M3-M12); Task 5.3: Pilot Training on Technical Procedures for Wildfires (M16-M30); Task 5.5: Integration of DARE results into Training Programmes (M24-M36); Task 6.1: Capabilities catalogue (wildfires and floods) (M24-M30); Task 6.3: Roadmap (M28-M35); Task 6.4: Policy brief (M28-M35); Task 7.5: Stakeholder Engagement and Clustering of Communities of Practice (M1-M36) as well as part of “All” in other WP7-Tasks; and of course as part of “All” in the tasks of WP8.