‘Advances in Search and Rescue Operations’ event The “Advances in Search and Rescue Operations” event, organized by UKEMED GLOBAL LTD (UGL), was held on April 20th, 2023, at the Hilton Nicosia hotel in Cyprus. The event was dedicated to the European Horizon project called “Search and Rescue”, which is composed Read more…
The SnR consortium is happy to announce its final conference, which will be preceded by a workshop on standardisation for SAR operations. Both events are open to all and free of charge and will take place on 8 and 9 May 2023 at Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park near Athens. More Read more…
Glad to announce that our partners from UNICA received the Best Poster Award at the 16th International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (BIODEVICES/BIOSTEC), held in Lisbon – Portugal, February 16-18, 2023 for their work “A modular BLE-based body area network embedded into a smart garment for rescuers real-time monitoring in Read more…
NEWSLETTER #5 January 2023 This newsletter keeps you updated on the latest activities of the Search & Rescue (SnR) project and informs you on news and activities related to Search and Rescue operations. On behalf of the consortium, we hope you enjoy reading this issue. We are happy to Read more…
During the year 2022, the SnR consortium has organized 7 Use Cases across Europe to test and validate the various tools and technologies developed within the project. All these use cases were essential for SnR’s technical development and significantly boosted the visibility of the project in Europe. A lot of Read more…
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…