project si.pro.c i * *(italian acronym) interreg iiic “interregional response to natural and man-...

Project Project SSI.PRO.C II.PRO.C I* *

*(Italian acronym)*(Italian acronym)

INTERREG IIICINTERREG IIIC

“Interregional Response to Natural and Man-made Catastrophes”

Presentation by: Ms Paola Amato, R&D expert, Province of Macerata, Presentation by: Ms Paola Amato, R&D expert, Province of Macerata, ItalyItaly

RESCUE – INTERREG IIIC – FINAL CONFERENCERESCUE – INTERREG IIIC – FINAL CONFERENCE

Tessaloniki, Greece 11 December Tessaloniki, Greece 11 December 20020066

Paper by Ms Paola Amato, Mr Giordano Piancatelli and Mr Luigi Vissani

RESCUE - INTERREG IIIC - FINALRESCUE - INTERREG IIIC - FINAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE

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GENERAL INFORMATIONGENERAL INFORMATION

•Type: Individual Project

•Total Budget: 1.543.186 EURO

•Period: from Jan. 2004 to June 2007 (36+6 months extention)

•13 organisations/institutions of Civil Protection

• Equivalent administrative level


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PARTNERSPARTNERS• Province of Macerata (IT) – Lead partner• Province of Pesaro Urbino (Marche Region, IT)

• Region Marche (IT)• Province of Trento (IT)• Diputación de Córdoba (ES)• City of Oldenburg (DE)• Academic Research Institute of Computer Technology (GR)• Municipality Agency for Development of Local Enterprises

(GR) • Province of Estern Attica (GR)

• District of Bielsko-Biala (PL)• Regional Development Agency (PL)• South Bohemia Region (CZ)• Foundation for Civil Protection (HU)

POLANDPOLANDCZECH CZECH REP.REP.HUNGARYHUNGARY

ITALYITALYGERMANYGERMANYGREECEGREECESPAINSPAIN


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OBJECTIVESOBJECTIVESTo improve the local and regional response to catastrophesand disasters through interregional collaboration acrossEurope:•Develop and improve methods and good practices to create an organisational model capable of coordinating, managing and optimising information, human and material resources

•Share the use of new information and communication technologies

•Improve the information and preparation of the public to increase the level of self-protection of citizens

•Enhance the coherence and integration of actions in the field of civil protection between regions across Europe, especially by the participation of the Eastern European countries considering their recent EU entry


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AREAS OF COOPERATIONAREAS OF COOPERATION

• Mechanism for coordination, management and organisation of the civil protection system (WP1)

• The use of new information and communication technologies (WP2)

• Methods, techniques and instruments for how to monitor and map risks (WP3)

• Methods and tools for efficient information and preparation of the citizens (WP4)


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The SIPROCI INTERREG IIIC: main The SIPROCI INTERREG IIIC: main strength of cooparationstrength of cooparation

The project SIPROCI• represents a rare example of large cooperation among 13 European

institutions/organisations of Civil Protection from 7 member states (including 4 Central&Eastern countries)

• Has favored the exchange of experience and information through specific technical sessions, exchange of staff, partecipation to exercises/simulations of civil protection carried out and promoted by each partner in their respective context;

• Has attempted to set up unified methodologies/models/procedures the most possible “neutral” against the various legal and administrative systems, specific political agendas of participants’ countries; models/procedures/methodologies that could be in case adopted by other Member States

• Has favored communication among partners via VoIP, internet, website, videoconferences.


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Information and Communication Information and Communication among partnersamong partners

Technical staff Technical staff of SIPROCI of of SIPROCI of the Provinciathe Provincia

Partners: Partners: 9 European + 3 Italian9 European + 3 Italian

Transnational meetingsVoIP technology (Skype)

- Communications - videoconferences;

E-mailProject’s WebSite www.siproci.net

- Intranet (private interface) - Forum (discussions)

Telephone (!)

Communication/Exchange/

http://www.siproci.net/


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Methodology and work-planMethodology and work-plan

• EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION- Factfinding analysisMay to October 2004 (6 months)

• EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS & GOOD PRACTICES- Working Groups October 04 to October 05 (1 year)

• TRANSFER AND APPLICATION TO THE LOCAL SYSTEM - National Taskforces – simulations of civil protectionNovember 2005 to December 2006 (14 months)

• DISSEMINATION AND COMMUNICATION July 2006 to April 2007

Formal start Jan. Formal start Jan. 2004 (delayed to 2004 (delayed to May)May)

End according to End according to extention- June extention- June

20072007

Status 36/42 Status 36/42 mounthsmounths

Fact finding reportFact finding report

Results

4 Good practice 4 Good practice reports (thematic reports (thematic areas)areas)

Final vademecum Final vademecum of civil protectionof civil protection

SIPROCI-RESCUE SIPROCI-RESCUE joint European joint European Conference in Conference in BrusselsBrussels


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• EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION- Factfinding analysis

Formal start Jan. Formal start Jan. 2004 (delayed 2004 (delayed to May)to May)


20072007

Status 6/42 monthsStatus 6/42 months

Fact finding Fact finding reportreport

Results

ACTIVITIES AND RESULTSACTIVITIES AND RESULTS

FACT FINDING REPORT: A specialists’ report on the different systems of civil protection providing detailed info about competences, plans, mechanisms, innovative ICT technology applied to civil protection in each partner national context.

ITALY –GERMANY – GREECE - SPAIN

CZECH REPUBBLIC – HUNGARY - POLAND

Identification of constraints that were the basis of the proposals/models/methodologies of the WGs specialistic sessions


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Activities and resultsActivities and resultsFormal start Jan. Formal start Jan. 2004 (delayed to 2004 (delayed to May)May)


20072007

Status 18/42 Status 18/42 monthsmonths

Results

4 Good practice 4 Good practice reports reports (thematic (thematic areas)areas)

• EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS & GOOD PRACTICES

- Transnational Working Groups

October 04 to October 05 (1 year)

•WG1: Mechanisms for coordination, management and organisation of the civil protection system developed by local administrations

•WG2: The use of new information and communication technologies applied to civil protection

•WG3: Methods, techniques & instruments for how to monitor and map risks: unifying approches and methodologies to risk mapping

•WG4: European strategies for efficient information and communication to citizens (pre-durng and after emergencies).


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Activities and resultsActivities and results

• TRANSFER AND APPLICATION TO THE LOCAL SYSTEM - National Taskforces –November 2005 to December 2006 (14 months)

Formal start Formal start Jan. 2004 Jan. 2004 (delayed to(delayed to May) May)


20072007

Status 32/42 monthsStatus 32/42 months

Results

Finalisation of the Vademecum of civil potection

Trying out & testing results and outcome in local

contexts:

•Training sessions / seminars

•Information events

•Simulation

•Exchange of staff

Main constraints and weak points


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Main References to EU actionsMain References to EU actions

RATI ONALE – EU legal framework

Community Mechanism of Civil Protection (Council Decision 23 October 2001) and current recasting

Treaty for an EU Constitution

Solidarity (Art. I – 43)

Subsidiarity (Art. I – 11)

Role and strength of local administrations and their activities/tools/methods to prevent and manage disasters

Bottom-up approach


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Case of Italy: Case of Italy: Governance and Governance and ddecentralisation policiesecentralisation policies of the 1990s of the 1990s

• Past approach (before late 1990s)

Regions

State

Provinces and municipalities

Hierarchic level of decision making

Top-down approach

• Today’s approach (after decentralisation policies)

National Government/State

Local administrations

Shared level of decision makingBottom-up approach


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How to improve local/regional mHow to improve local/regional mechanismechanismss for for coordination, management and organisation coordination, management and organisation of the civil protection systemof the civil protection system (WG1) (WG1)

Focus based on two major technical and communication mechnaims :

1. Local plan of civil protection: suggesting minimum standads or minimum contents of one of the most important command control mechanism of civil protection.

2. Glossary and visual signs of civil protection: improving communication among experts and raise citizens’ awareness on the role of civil protection and major risks posed by emergencies


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Setting up common approch and methodology Setting up common approch and methodology to risk mapping (WG3)to risk mapping (WG3)

3. Methodology for risk mapping based on technical knowledge applied in each participant countries. The innovation stands in the analysis and identification of leves of vulnerability and, as a consequence the levels of risk, as the expression and synthesis of the complex interaction of both the anthropic and the territorial systems.


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European strategies for communicaton to European strategies for communicaton to citizens in civil protection (WG4)citizens in civil protection (WG4)

4. Defining of an “Istruction manual” addressed to citizens and administrations which focuses on:

• Preparative communication, whose objective is to inform the general public about the civil protection system;

• Preventing communication whose objective is to inform the general public about events and crisis situations;

• Communication during the crisis situations (for predictable events and for unpredictable events);

• Communication according to different target groups (elderly and children).


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PROPOSAL 1. PROPOSAL 1. Plan of civil protection- minimum Plan of civil protection- minimum standardsstandards

Rationale• Recasting of the 2001 civil protection mechanim

hilights the importace, as a core contributions to reinforcing preparedeness with EU, of two main elements:

• Assessment of civil protection capabilities (building up scenarios);

• A modular approach (rapidely deployable and self-sufficient modules) .


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Why a plan?Why a plan?Contents and aims of a local plan of civil protectionContents and aims of a local plan of civil protection

A Local plan of Civil Protection can be defined as: A plan drawn up by a local authority providing a set of organic data (territory’s main characteristics, risks, human resources and means etc.) and procedures (command-control system, alarm system, model of intervention) related to the overall organisation arrangement of the civil protection aiming at best responding to a given event and its consequences.

System of System of Civil

Protection

Forecast ProtectionPrevention

main

activities

FORECAST

PROTECTIONRECOVERING/

RECONSTRUCTION

PREVENSION


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Plan of civil protection: suggesting minimum Plan of civil protection: suggesting minimum contentscontents


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PROPOSAL 2. PROPOSAL 2. Glossary and visual signs of civil Glossary and visual signs of civil protection for EU citizens protection for EU citizens

• Glossary of civil protection

• European signs of Civil Protection TargetTarget group group

EU citizens

ObjectivesObjectives

•To make citizens aware of the role played by the civil protection which is not merely to be associated to crises and emergency and which indeed covers important phases as prevention, forecast and protection.

•Make people aware of the main mechnisms, tools and procedures developed at local level by local administrations, prime actors first called in to manage emergencies and safeguard people’s security and safety.

•Raise people awareness on the major facilities, shelters associated to emergency situations (rest-centre, assembly point, red zone area).

3 experimental signs

Terms and definitions provided in 7 bilingual versions


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Glossary: Classification of terminology of civil protection

Relevant emergecy Organisation of spaces and shelters Civil Protction Internazional consolidated

terminology

- ALARM - AREA FOR THE STORAGE OF EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT (*) - ASSEMBLY POINT (*) - LIMITED ACCESS POINT (*) - REST CENTRE (*) - RED AREA (*) - ORANGE AREA (*) - GREEN AREA

- ALERT LEVEL - EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTRE - EMERGENCY PLAN - PLAN OF CIVIL PROTECTION - PREVENTION (ACTIVITY) - FORECAST (ACTIVITY) - PROTECTION (ACTIVITY)

- DISASTER - EVENT - EXPECTED EVENT - PREDICTABLE EVENT - HAZARD - RISK - RISK SCENARIO - RISK MAPS - THREASHOLD - VULNERABILY


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EN-Assembly point


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EN- Limited access point


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EN-Rest Centre


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UNIFIED METHODOLOGY FOR RISK MAPPINGUNIFIED METHODOLOGY FOR RISK MAPPING

AVALANCHES

EARTHQUAKES

FLOODS

FLOODS ASSOCIATED TO DAMS BURST

FOREST FIRES

INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS

LANDSLIDES

SNOW STORMS AND SNOWFALL

WINTER STORMS (WIND STORMS)

HAZARD VULNERABILITY

POPULATION

BUILDINGS

PRODUCTIVE AREAS

CULTURAL GOODS

INFRASTRUCTURAL NETWORKS

TECHNOLOGICAL NETWORKS

ENVIROMENTAL GOODS

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Simplified Risk Equation: RISK = HAZARD * VULNERABILITY

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FLOWCHART: “HVA PROCESS” (Hazard Vulnerability Analysis)

WG3


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3 WG3

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“HAZARD INDEX” Hn “VULNERABILITY INDEX” Vn

“RISK INDEX” Rn


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Final results and cooperation Final results and cooperation with RESCUEwith RESCUE

• Policy paper on Civil protectionPolicy paper on Civil protection

• Common approach, strategy and information/dissemination Common approach, strategy and information/dissemination campaignof projects’ results at EU level;campaignof projects’ results at EU level;

• Final Conference in Brussels (April 2007)Final Conference in Brussels (April 2007)

project si.pro.c i * *(italian acronym) interreg iiic “interregional response to natural and man-...

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field of civil protection

efficient information

optimising information

ms paola amato

exchange of staff

eastern european countries

administrative systems

exchange of experience