PLINIVS has received funding for its first Horizon 2020 project!
The REACHING OUT (demonstRation of EU Effective large sCale tHreat and crIsis maNaGement OUTside the EU) project, involving 26 EU partners, was presented in response to the call “Crisis management: demonstration activity on large-scale disasters and crisis and resilience of the EU’s external resources against the main identified threats or causes of crises”.
Effective EU support to a major external crisis requires new approaches. In response to this challenge and identified user and market needs from previous projects, Reaching Out proposes an innovative multidisciplinary approach that will optimize efforts, address a broad spectrum of users and maximize the success of market innovation.
This approach translates into five main objectives:
1. Develop a collaborative framework, with distributed platforms of functional services;
2. Implement a flexible and open “collaborative innovation” process involving users and SMEs, suppliers, operators and research organisations;
3. Develop, update and integrate 78 new connectable and interoperable tools;
4. Conduct large-scale field demonstrations;
5. Provide recommendations and evaluations for future legal and policy innovations.
Funded by European Commission – Horizon 2020
