In the face of natural or man-made disasters, search and rescue teams and other first responders like police, medical units, civil protection or volunteers, race against the clock to locate survivors within the critical 72-hour timeframe (Golden Hours), facing challenges such as instable structures or hazardous environments but also insufficient Read more…
Glad to announce that our partners CERTH & UHASSELT submitted the paper “Building community resilience in disaster management” at the XVI World Winter Service and Road Resilience Congress where they presented results from the S&R project (T1.3) and are available at the Congress’ proceedings page.
Glad to announce that our partners from the University of Florence and the University of Cagliari participating at the Maker Faire Rome- The European Edition presenting the Smart Protective Uniform as part of the H2020 Search and Rescue Project. You can find more about the exhibition here.
Being first and foremost a research project, contributing to scientific literature is a key component of the SnR dissemination strategy. On 17 June, a paper titled “A Proposed Methodological Approach for Considering Community Resilience in Technology Development and Disaster Management Pilot Testing” co-written by partners of the SnR consortium (CERTH, Read more…
In June 18, the Search and Rescue Project successfully held its second Use Case (UC5 – VICTIMS TRAPPED UNDER RUBBLES) in Limoges/La Souterraine (France). The Use Case was hosted and led by International Emergency Firefighters (PUI) with the objective to test Search and Rescue Project components & technologies in 4 Read more…
Glad to announce that the Search & Rescue project participated in the 12th National Congress of the Spanish Society for Emergency and Emergency Medicine in Galicia. “Sea of talent, a beacon of specialty”, is the motto that SEMES has chosen, Spanish Society of Emergency and Emergency Medicine, for its XXXII Read more…
Τhe Search and Rescue project was presented by ESDP at ISCRAM the 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management taking place 22-25 May in Tarbes, France. The presentation with the title “Ethics in Catastrophes Extraordinary Decisions” focus on the main objectives of the SnR project as Read more…
The SnR project was presented on the occasion of the PSCE Conference that took place in Salzburg on 11-12 May 2022. The conference gathered more than 100 delegates from Europe and beyond and from heterogenous backgrounds (industry, research, end-users, civil society) around key topics in Public Safety and Public Protection Read more…
The Search & Rescue project was presented at the EMS Glasgow Congress. Through innovation, involvement, and a creative approach, the congress provided the latest knowledge, showcased the newest equipment, and demonstrated best practices in the area of emergency care – from the citizen’s emergency call to pre-hospital care and all the Read more…
Search and Rescue: A European Project Tests innovative technologies for Search and Rescue operations in Sicily Sixty years ago, the ground began to shake in Poggioreale, an ancient village in south-west Sicily. Reaching 6.1 on the Richter scale, the earthquake was one of the most violent to strike Italy, killing 231 Read more…