The DRIVER+ 3rd I4CM (Innovation for Crisis Management) event was held in Warsaw on 3rd-4th September 2018. This edition focused on standardisation and identified regional-national pressing issues faced by local practitioners such as inter-agencies...

DRIVER+ identified seven ideas with a potential for standardisation: Unification of symbols in COP tool Requirements on Anonymisation for Social Media Data Requirements on information exchange across borders and organisations Social Impact Assessment Framework Trial...

The intriguingly titled Updated Workshop 0 was held in The Hague between the 6th and 9th November and has been roundly hailed as another successful event in the DRIVER+ calendar. The first Workshop 0 was held eight months ago, before any of the Trials had taken place....

DRIVER+ Trial 2 was held from 22 to 26 October in France at the premises of Entente Valabre, a public Civil Protection support organisation located near Aix-en-Provence. Trial 2 simulated the widespread effects of this scenario in a depiction of real events where...

Organised by Entente Valabre, a public Civil Protection support organisation, the second DRIVER+ Trial is going on. Imagine the scene: a large forest fire occurs in a cross-border Mediterranean environment and threatens wildland urban interfaces. Because of the...

In the context of the preparations for DRIVER+ Trial#2 starting on 22-26 October 2018 in Valabre (France) a booklet containing extensive information about the Trial was recently launched. WHAT IS IT ABOUT? The Booklet covers information about the project DRIVER+, the...

Marcel van Berlo, DRIVER+ project technical coordinator, was interviewed by Government Europa to speak about DRIVER+, its objectives and activities. Do you want to read the full story? Click here !

DRIVER+ is assisting Crisis Management practitioners in finding the best way to address disasters that require complex responses. The second DRIVER+ Trial will be held from 22 to 26 October in France at the premises of Entente Valabre, a public Civil Protection...

We are very pleased to announce the official launch of the forth DRIVER+ Call for application. Are you driving innovation in Crisis Management? Are developing and deploying socio-technical solutions? Do you provide innovation being a game changer? If you can answer...

According to figures from the EFFIS (The European Forest Fire Information System) at least 16 EU countries have experienced more wildfires than usual for this time of year. During the past month in Sweden, more than 80 fires across 260 square kilometres spread through...