Catherine CHRONAKI1, V. KONTOYIANNIS1, D. CHRISTOU, Th. APOSTOLIDI1 1FORTH-Institute of Computer Science
2Cyprus Civil DefenceOn behalf of NEREIDs Consortium
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 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