ABOUT INDIMA

Project INDIMA will develop and enhance a network-concept for better and holistic civil protection and disaster risk management by integrating all relevant stakeholders in pre-planned joint preparedness and response activities, establishing a tangible network.
Objective is to develop a concept to optimise the cooperation and improve the coordination among a wide range of governmental and non-governmental, civil and military as well as public and private stakeholders.
This concept will be tested in a SIMEX (Simulation exercise) with some 40 participants from several European states, the situation will be visualised in a virtual reality supported simulation.
The objective of this two-days exercise is to test the implementation of the concept, gain knowledge for the practise and finally explore and strengthen synergies between civil protection, humanitarian aid organisations and private entities

Going online - a new approach for CP projects

The extensive use of contemporary digital tools like online survey systems, videoconferences and social media for the preparation and execution makes it possible to realise a project with this span within this budget frame. The important online project meetings will be recorded digitally and be part of the project management documentation. New opportunities with Information Communication Technology entities for the implementation of digital tools are tested and strengthened.
  • Online assessment and survey
  • Online workshops:
    • Legal issues
    • Communications
    • Interoperability
  • VR based simulations at the SIMEX

ROLES WITHIN THE PROJECT

Roles and Responsibilities in the Project

Consortium Partners

DSU – Department for Emergency Situations

Coordinating partner (COO)
GO: project lead, representation, reports conduct and evaluation of the SIMEX

Publicomm GmbH

Consortium Partner (BEN)

SME: Planning and activities, communication, and visibility, Virtual Reality simulation exercise

Hungarian Red Cross

Consortium Partner (BEN)
NGO: research, online survey, and workshops

iHELP Institute

Consortium Partner (BEN)

NGO: SIMEX scenario and schedule, Pre exercise meeting EXCON personnel for SIMEX

SMURD Foundation

Subcontractor
Virtual Reality Simulation Exercise setup and management

Linked Third Parties

Austrian Red Cross

LTP
Budapest Water Works
LTP
Szegedi Önkentes Tüzolto és Mentöegyesület (Szeged volunteer fire and rescue service, SFRS)
LTP

LTP are supporting with their expertise, contributing experts.
For the conduct of the SIMEX the LTP nominate participants and support with qualified role-players.

Pool of Experts

In the implementation of the project INDIMA, experts will have a particularly important role.

  • On one hand we will establish an advisory group (AG) to evaluate the projects progress and results and participate at the online conferences,
  • On the other hand, the experts will be invited to contribute in their relevant field of expertise to crosscheck the activities and get advise for a successful project development,
  • INDIMA experts will get the experts’ kit, the project newsletter and access to all project related data, publications and project results and outcomes,
  • Great exchange and network opportunity for Civil Protection experts
  • No physical attendance is needed, the project will be mainly conducted online.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

 

The objective is to promote networks of relevant civil protection and other disaster management actors and to promote the exchange of information, training, research, and innovation.  The main task is to optimise the cooperation and improve the coordination among a wide range of governmental and non-governmental, civil and military as well as public and private stakeholders. The project team covers with the members of the consortium and the pool of indidvidal experts a broad expertise in disaster risk management and Civil Protection, many with personal track record in similar missions as proposed.

The project development of INDIMA covers needs assessment, key stakeholder mapping, online survey and three online workshops on communication, legal aspects, and interoperability. The outcomes of this process lead to a concept for an integrated approach with tools like handbook and checklists (printed and as MS office templates).
This concept will be tested in a SIMEX (Simulation exercise) with some 40 participants from several European states, the situation will be visualised in a virtual reality supported simulation. It shows a large disaster (freezing rain) with cascading effects, involving several EU and Non-EU states.
The objective of this two-days exercise is to ensure knowledge transfer from theory into practise, what means implementation of the concept, gain knowledge for the practise and finally explore and strengthen synergies between civil protection, humanitarian aid organisations and private entities.
In a final workshop the results will be discussed, in order to publish the concept and the final checklist and out of the lessons identified from the former conducted workshops and simulation-exercise.