Project activities by the EC – Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)

From April to November 2019, the C3Initiative team has accomplished a project designed to collect and process data for the seeKMS platform that was a part of the outputs of the IPA DRAM (Programme for Disaster Risk Assessment and Mapping). This project was financed by the European Commission – Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO).

The consortium for the project was:

• Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) as COORDINATOR;
• Italian Civil Protection Department (DPC);
• Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (ACPDR);
• National Protection, Rescue Directorate of the Republic of Croatia (DUZS);
• International Centre on Environmental Monitoring (CIMA Research Foundation).

The goal of the project is to increase beneficiaries’ capabilities to ensure proper disaster risk management at national, regional and EU levels.

• Conceptualize and conduct a survey on the use and need for upgrades of seeKMS platform http://seekms.dppi.info/,
• Update the content (documents and project sessions) of the seeKMS platform,
• Create a summary of the survey results and recommendations for improvement of the seeKMS platform