Getting the RED ROSES project off to a good start!
On 19 and 20 April 2023, the RED ROSES internal kick-off meeting was hosted by the French Red Cross in Paris (France) and attended by all consortium members. The objectives of this meeting were to agree on a clear understanding of the project and discuss its effective implementation. It enabled a more detailed understanding and framing of the RED ROSES project and its objectives, as well as the modalities of its implementation within the consortium.
Benefiting from the RED ROSES Advisory Board
Thanks to and following on from this first consortium meeting, the cross-border civil protection authorities and relevant stakeholders have been engaged in the organisation of the RED ROSES Advisory Board, made up of their representatives. Its members have been identified in recognition of their knowledge and work, as well as their interest in cross-border hazards and disaster risk reduction issues. Expected to use the results of the project in each cross-border study area, they will all contribute to collaborative intelligence and constitute an additional force for strategic thinking, support and monitoring for RED ROSES implementation.
The RED ROSES consortium is delighted to be able to count on a competent and high-quality Advisory Board, composed of 15 members from France and Italy, as well as Cyprus, Germany and Spain: cross-border civil protection authorities (French Directorate General for Civil Security and Crisis Management - DGSCGC, Alpes Maritimes Departemental Fire and Rescue Service - SDIS 06, Piedmont Region Civil Protection Agency, Piedmont National Fire & Rescue Corps), Centre for Studies and Expertise on Risks, Environment, Mobility and Urban Planning - CEREMA, municipalities and mayors of the Susa Valley, Centre-of-Excellence in Risk & Decision Sciences - CERIDES, Freiberg Technical University, Pau Costa Foundation, and independent experts.
On 12 July 2023, the Advisory Board of the RED ROSES project met with the Project Team in hybrid format for the first time. A general presentation was given by the French Red Cross, as Project Coordinator. It was followed by further presentations of work packages and discussions on the data ecosystem mapping, the definition of the platform’s use cases, and the issues of data collection and sharing, especially in a cross-border context.
Existing institutional and non-institutional data collection and sharing
In accordance with the timetable defined for the efficient and progressive implementation of the RED ROSES project, the consortium attended its first two technical meetings.
On 08 and 09 June 2023, the RED ROSES project first technical meeting was hosted by the BRGM in Orléans (France) and attended by the Project Team. The aim of this meeting was to identify multi-source and multi-format existing institutional and non-institutional repositories, and to agree on shared solutions to make the existing data homogeneous at a cross-border level, in terms of content, meaning, terminology, etc. The discussions helped to prioritise the various risks and data to be processed, as a starting point for the development of the project.
New data generation from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
On 27 and 28 September 2023, the RED ROSES project consortium was hosted by the CRi in its Multipurpose Centre in Settimo Torinese (Italy) for its second technical meeting, organised by the CNR.
The existing rules, protocols, policies and strategies for new data collection and sharing in cross-border areas will be discussed. The web applications that are planned to be developed for providing VGI services will be presented, as will their technical constraints and potential, which will also be explained.
Various topics were discussed, including the challenges of new data generation from VGI for floods, landslides and wildfires, as well as the rules and strategies for data collection in cross-border regions. A VGI collection test session was also organised by the CNR.
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