Catherine CHRONAKI1, V. KONTOYIANNIS1, D. CHRISTOU, Th. APOSTOLIDI1 1FORTH-Institute of Computer Science

2Cyprus Civil DefenceOn behalf of NEREIDs Consortium

chronaki@ics.forth.gr

NEREIDsEmbracing Innovation for Preparedness in Civil

Protection & Marine Pollution

NEREIDs Background

The NEREIDs proposal aims to strengthen civil protection and marine pollution preparedness and cooperation among Greece and Cyprus, building on international standards, best practices, and innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) such as risk management, eLearning tools, crowd sourcing, and games.

Duration: Jan 2013-Dec 2014 Budget/EC funding

537,425€/403,068 €

NOBLE Platform Homer

What will NEREIDs do?

Multi-axial approach on cooperation for direct response: Cyprus & Greece

Characteristics Host nation support: preparedness to send and receive

assistance Novel ICT technologies: eLearning, games, crowd sourcing,

integration of risk assessment/prediction, webinars Standardized situational reports: Increase preparedness

potential reducing the impact of emergencies through sharing experience and best practices on developing

Database of best practices highlighting outstanding response and common errors will be developed and promoted among stakeholders.

Assessment & evaluation framework measuring aptitude and knowledge retention

Iterative Approach: Evaluation workshops, Training, TableTop exercises

NEREIDs Partnership

Expert Centers in ICT applications for Civil Protection and Marine Pollution FORTH-Institute of Computer Science, Greece Ubilabs, Germany

National Authorities in Civil Protection and Marine Pollution Civil Defence, Ministry of Interior, Cyprus Direction of Fisheries and Marine Research, Ministry of Environment, Cyprus Direction of Civil Protection, Decentralized Admin of Crete, Greece Emergency Medical Services , Greece

National Competence Centers in Risk Assessment for Civil and Marine Protection Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece Helenic Center for Marine Research Center (subcontract to TEI) Oceanographic Center, University of Cyprus (AB7) 3D Seismic Lab, Cardiff University (AB5)

Volunteer Organizations Hellenic Red Cross, Rescue and Samaritans Corps (AB6) Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. (Subcontract to AB8)

Expected Impact

Improved planning and preparedness for EU civil protection operations and marine protection, building on risk assessments and real disaster events

Improved effectiveness of the transnational cooperation provided through the Civil Protection Mechanism by improving the knowledge of professionals and volunteers, e.g. host nation support

Novel educational material available in electronic format for training and retraining of professionals and volunteers (crowd sourcing, games, webinars) including risk assessment resources

Increased awareness of best practices and shared common resources to be used for training and refresh courses. Database of incidents Standardized reports

Community of trained volunteers, engaged stakeholders

NEREIDs Tasks

Task Title Leading Organization

TASK A T1: Task management and Reporting to the commission 

FORTH-Institute of Computer Science (CB)

TASK B

Τ2: Technological Disaster Scenario Selection, Modeling, Analysis 

TEI Crete (AB2)

TASK C T3: eLearning tools - skills development   

FORTH-Institute of Computer Science (CB)

TASK D

T4: Host-Nation support, Best Practices, Regional, National & International Cooperation 

Civil Defence Cyprus (AB1)

TASK E T5: Evaluation of learning objectives - knowledge management / retention    

Oceanography Center University of Cyprus, Cyprus (AB7)

TASK F T6. Multinational incident report database 

Civil Defence Cyprus (AB1)

TASK G

T7. Task Publicity, Awareness, Dissemination & Liaison

T3: eLearning tools - skills development   

Task A: Management

TASK B Technological Disaster Scenario Selection, Modeling, Analysis

Realization Scheme1. Select disaster scenarios based on real marine accidents - Oil spills (for example more than 14,000 oil spills are reported each year in the U.S.) produced from explosions on the oil and gas production platforms (Piper Alpha, 1978; Montara, 2009 and the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, 2010) or sea accidents of tankers2 . Create grids (from bathymetry/topography data) of the study areas (Figure 1)

Figure 1 Map showing Crete’s bathymetry (digitalisation of Navy maps) . Kriging interpolation method has been used.

3. Process of bathymetry to produce slope and aspect maps (Figure 2)

Figure 2 Slope map derived form Crete’s bathymetry

7. Elaborate on scenario prepare for eLearning material and workshop

5. Perform Oil spill modelling using MEDSLIK and POSEIDON OSP (Figure 4a,b)

4. Define main geomorphologic features of the study area(s) (Figure 3)

Figure 3 Map showing Crete’s bathymetry and definition of marine geological faults (red line) in the selected area (Kokinou et al. 2012)

Figure 4a Forecasts and hind casts each for 24 h of two slicks using MEDSLIK

Figure 4b Oil Spill modelling using POSEIDON OSM

6. Combine previous steps to produce reliable disaster scenario(s)

Task C: eLearning Tools & Skills Development

Risk assessmentCrowd sourcingGames in Civil ProtectioneLearning: merging research with

ICTDeliverables

C.1d The ICT applications to support spreading knowledge about civil protection and marine pollution

C.2d Training using “NEREID”: usage manuals

C.3d Evaluation of training tools from ICT perspective

Task D:Host Nation support, Best Practices, Regional, National & International Cooperation

Assess existing preparedness and response plans from participating countries.

Assessment of existing plans and procedures and improvement of them with the guidelines of the Host Nation Support (HNS), a part of the overall Civil Protection Mechanism.

Identify civil protection and marine pollution departments, their level of preparedness and their needs.

Task D: Host Nation support, Best Practices, Regional,

National & International Cooperation

Perform an information and educational campaign. Train & mobilize volunteer organizations.

Adopt Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support cooperation in the context of training and HNS.

Refine scenario scripts based on detailed actions in order to check their level of preparedness.

Table Top Exercise

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Task E: Evaluation of learning objectives - knowledge management / retention

Review of Evaluation Methodologies for training in Civil Protection and Marine Pollution

Evaluation Framework for training in Civil Protection and Marine Pollution

Evaluation of the NEREID interventions in the context of the EU competence framework

Task F:Multinational Incident Report Database

Gather information on different incidents, since 1950. Categorize reports, analyse and convert into harmonized

format. Input random incidents to different statistical programs,

check their accuracy, in order to identify the best for future use.

Deliverables Statistical Analysis and Data mining of incident reports in the

database. Evaluation of the database, Presentation of reports, Information

on results and Publication.

Major Events/Milestones

Date Event Name Organizer Size

Apr 2013 Scenario workshop Civil Defence, Cyprus 30 people

Jul 2013 1st Tabletop Exercise training event

Direction of Civil Protection, Crete

70 people

Nov 2013 1st Evaluation WorkshopTraining event

Civil Defence, Cyprus 70 people

Apr 2014 2nd Evaluation Workshop training event

Cardiff University 50 people

Sep 2014 2nd Tabletop exercise3rd Evaluation Workshop  

Civil Defence, Cyprus 70 people

Dec 2014 Final Conference 

FORTH, Crete 100 people

What we have done so far? Current Activities

Project Management Partnership agreements Advisory Board:

Greek Marine Protection SAHANA NL Civil Protection (Host Nation Support) Energy Service – Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Tourism

Task leaders A-G create workplan organize teams

Immediate Deliverables Dissemination plan in Month 1 Web Site in Month 1 Cooperative platform

Preparation of Disaster Scenario Workshop in April 13 Participants, Speakers Stakeholders: volunteers, stakeholders

Tools for Cooperative Work

THANK YOU!

Any questions?