Wednesday, 19th February 2020
9:35h Welcome by the European Commission
10:45h DRIVER+ Project Overview and Achievements
Marcel van Berlo, TNO/DRIVER+
11:45h The DRIVER+ Key Outputs
Trial Guidance Methodology
Chiara fonio, JRC/DRIVER+
Test-Bed Technical Infrastructure
Erik Vullings, TNO/DRIVER+
Training Module
Steven van Campen, XVR/DRIVER+
Portfolio of Solutions
Denis Havlik, AIT/DRIVER+
The Centres of Expertise Network
Agnese Macaluso, Ecorys/DRIVER+
The Cmine Community
Todor Tagarev, bULGARIAN aCADEMY OF SCIENCES/DRIVER+
14:15h The DRIVER+ Trial Experience
CHIARA FONIO, JRC/DRIVER+
STEVEN VAN CAMPEN, XVR SIMULATION/DRIVER+
ERIK VULLINGS, TNO/DRIVER+
SELECTED DRIVER+ TRIAL ORGANISERS:
Alice Clemenceau, Valabre
André de Rond, Veiligheidsregio Haaglanden (VRH)
Tomasz Zwęgliński, Polish Main School of Fire Service (SGSP)
Selected providers of solutions assessed at the D+ trials:
Martha Bird, Danish Red Cross: Psychological First Aid training
Ruud van den Beukel, Merlin: CrisisSuite
Joost van der Hammen, Nelen & Schuurmans: 3Di
16:50h The DRIVER+ Portfolio of Solutions
DENIS HAVLIK, AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AIT)/DRIVER+
17:00h Top 3 Innovative Solutions in Crisis Management 2020
Award ceremony
17:30h Summary of the Day
Philippe Quevauviller, DG Home, European Commission
Thursday, 20th February 2020
09:30h Welcome by the European Commission to Day 2
Angelo Marino, Unit B4 Safeguarding SECURE Society, Research Executive Agency (REA), European Commission
11:15h Standardisation in DRIVER+ – White Paper Presentation
Marie-Christine Bonnamour, Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE)/DRIVER+
12:30h The DRIVER+ Legacy – Establishing New Centres of Expertise
Signature ceremony
13:00h The DRIVER+ Legacy – Looking into the Future
Marcel van Berlo, TNO/DRIVER+
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
Chiara Fonio
JRC/DRIVER+
Dr. Chiara Fonio currently works as a project officer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (Disaster Risk Management Unit, Ispra, Italy). Her research interests range from disaster risk management to surveillance and privacy issues. She has been involved in many research projects focused on crisis management, crisis and risk communication as well as on the impact of surveillance technologies in urban contexts. Her most recent book is the edited volume Big data, Surveillance and Crisis management (Boersma, F.K & Fonio, C., Routledge, 2018).
In DRIVER+ she has been leading the activities which led to the development of the Test-bed.
Denis Havlik
Austrian Institute of Technology/DRIVER+
Dr. Denis Havlik is a scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). Within DRIVER+, he has led all activities related to the Portfolio of Solutions (PoS) and Trial Guidance Tool (TGT).
Agnese Macaluso
Ecorys/DRIVER+
Agnese Macaluso is a consultant at Ecorys, a research and consultancy company, focused on (strategic) development, implementation and evaluation of public policy. She has experience on issues related to conflict prevention, urban violence and local governance, violent extremism and EU foreign relations.
Her areas of expertise are:
- Coordination and implementation of projects in the domain of urban innovation, regional integration and security;
- Coordinate acquisition of projects with EIB, European Commission, WORLD BANK, DFID;
- Strategic planning within EU and international market.
Previously, Agnese was a researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice under the Conflict Prevention Program and worked for the European External Action Service and Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds a Master’s degree in international Relations and European Studies from the University of Florence.
Philippe Quevauviller
European Commission (DG HOME)
Dr. Philippe Quevauviller is Research Programming and Policy Officer at DG HOME. He started his career at the European Commission in 1989 as scientific officer at DG RESEARCH, then as policy officer at DG ENVIRONMENT (in charge of EU groundwater policies) in the years 2002-2008, and back to DG RESEARCH from 2008 to 2013 in the area of hydrometeorological hazards. He moved to the Secure Societies Programme in 2013, firstly at DG ENTERPRISE (2013) then at DG HOME (2015), where he is responsible for research programming in the area of Disaster Resilient Societies. Since 2014, he is coordinating the development of the Community of Users on Secure, Safe and Resilient Societies.
Besides his work at the European Commission, he is also Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), a scientific writer and editor. He holds two PhDs (oceanography and environmental chemistry) and the highest French University degree (HDR).
Todor Tagarev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/DRIVER+
Todor Tagarev is a former Minister of Defence (2013). He has represented Bulgaria on EDA’s R&T Steering Board and the NATO Science and Technology Board. Currently he is Professor at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and leads its Centre for Security and Defence Management.
Marcel van Berlo
TNO/DRIVER+
Dr. Marcel van Berlo is a senior project manager at TNO (the Netherlands) in the field of human factors and security since 1993. Selected topics of interest are crisis management, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, urban security, team performance, training and serious gaming. He holds a Ph.D in Instructional Psychology and Technology from the University of Leuven (Belgium). From 2000-2005 he was coordinating the Team Training research group within TNO, from 2011-2014 he coordinated the Community Resilience product group, and from 2004-2017 he was a senior business developer in the field of human factors and security. Since 2017 Marcel is the Technical Coordinator of the European research project DRIVER+ and since 2019 the chair of the EARTO Security and Defence Research Working Group. He is member of the editorial board of the Dutch magazine ‘Secondant’ on public safety and security.
Steven van Campen
XVR Simulation
Steven van Campen is a senior incident command instructor and exercise consultant at XVR Simulation. He holds an MSc. in Aerospace Engineering and an MSc. Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology and is certified by Linköping University as an EmergoTrain System senior instructor. He has interests in education and crisis management and is involved in the design and implementation of simulation centres and innovations in incident command training. He lives with his family in the Netherlands and enjoys cooking, woodworking and theatre.
Erik Vullings
TNO/DRIVER+
Dr. Erik Vullings is Senior System Integrator for more than 12 years at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), focussing on technology development in the area of Modelling and Simulation. He previously worked for 3y as an R&D programme manager in Australia on Identity & Access Management, and for 5y as Systems Engineer and programme manager for Philips Centre of Applied Science, developing B2B equipment. Within DRIVER+, he has been leading activities related to the Test-bed Technical Infrastructure.