Description
Description (EN): REDACt aims at establishing a cross-border cooperation to promote common policies and strategies leading to sharing data, information and competencies in order to respond to major issues related to Earthquake Preparedness & Emergency Response, by providing reliable Real-Time information regarding the induced damages including structures, gas pipelines, lifelines and geotechnical failures; prompt dissemination of respective alert information and; improvement of the public response to emergencies.
Shared competencies, information and data from the extensive earthquake monitoring networks maintained by partner countries and the joint efforts of a multi-disciplinary scientific partner team, will help develop a Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment (REDA) System (REDAS) as a new, innovative ICT-based solution going beyond the existing practice in the field of Earthquake Early Warning, Damage Assessment & Response planning. By providing event-related real-time data, as well as earthquake damage level per structure typology in both the case of “what if” scenarios and Real Events, REDAS will help to substantially reduce response time in post-earthquake emergencies (a critical parameter for improving population safety).
A smartphone app with information & data dissemination and communication capabilities will be developed to complement REDAS and disseminate emergency information to public. An “Educational Hub” as a 3rd ICT tool, will provide targeted education to will help raise public awareness and reaction capacity during emergencies. By providing solutions to Emergency Response problems, the combined REDAS Service will help improve Preparedness and Emergency Response efficiency thus strengthening Community Resilense against earthquakes.
Since earthquake monitoring networks maintained by national authorities are deployed within national borders, lack of sufficient real-time data covering the “foreign” side of the border in Cross-Border Areas (CBA), limits planning and renders Emergency Response ineffective. By combining data and information from all sides of the borders, REDAS will solve this problem and provide to the Target Group, accurate and reliable information thus improving response efficiency in CBA.
Services & Software will be open to potential users and their modular structure combined with focused dissemination activities, will ensure both adaptation to other areas as well as future expansion in order to fully cover the Black Sea Basin, ensuring sustainability and multiplication of results. By improving cooperation on disaster prevention related environmental monitoring and cross-border availability & interoperability of updated online public access data and data products, REDACt will help increase public safety. Project partners’ active involvement in engineering seismology and earthquake engineering fields at State level, ensures capitalization of project outputs and conversion to results for post earthquake emergencies.
Read more Achievements (EN): Earthquakes pose a severe threat to modern societies, and we need to change our culture of emergency preparedness, improve local citizen response capacity, and enhance individual and community resilience.
The project Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment ConsorTium – REDACt (BSB966) capitalised on the educational material published by the competent authorities from the Black Sea Basin area and, based on conducted research and widely accepted scientific principles intends to constructively contribute towards improving public safety against earthquake-related risks, in line with state regulations and emergency plans.
During Earthquake emergencies, the main problems identified by competent authorities in respect to public response include panic; traffic jams; unawareness of the safe locations, the possible routes towards them and the time people can safely stay there.
At the same time, scientific research has shown that the prime concern people face during earthquake emergencies, is related to the unknown safety conditions and whereabouts of persons they care about. This may also be a reason for panicking and being willing to ignore the risks and expose themselves to existing hazards.
To improve the population’s preparedness and response capacity, REDACt focuses on improving Earthquake Disaster Mitigation public Education and Competencies by providing short guidelines and tools to help the public acquire, during earthquake emergencies, situational awareness regarding their main concerns and most important needs as defined in the previous paragraph.
Given that voice communication during emergencies may be interrupted due to system overload, free software tools and services on how to – on-demand - share information and live location over data, are provided in the form of very short tutorials. At the same time, navigation-able maps of safe locations based on data provided by competent State Authorities for the entire project implementation area, are included in order to make the REDACt EDU-HUB an one-stop site to acquire all the necessary info and support.
The REDACt project team invites you to browse through the Educational Hub and become a part of the joint effort, to improve community resilience and overall safety against Earthquakes.
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Website: http://blacksea-cbc.net/
Expected Results (EN): R 2.1 Level of availability of cross-border compatible environmental monitoring data and information
Expected Outputs (EN): 1.Improved cross-border joint environmental monitoring data availability & interoperability as well as cooperation regarding earthquake disaster prevention & management (COI.2.1.1, COI29) by jointly developing the harmonization framework.
2.Improved cooperation and availability of online environmental information (RI.2.1) related to earthquake hazard (ground motion records; disaster maps; potential environmental problems due to rupture of lifelines, pipelines etc).
3.A new, innovative ICT-based solution going beyond the existing practice in the field of Earthquake Early Warning and Damage Assessment (COI.2.1.1); the Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment System which will provide reliable earthquake damage information (RI.2.1), based on “what if” scenarios and Actual Events in Real-Time.
4.A smartphone application (COI.2.1.1) to provide education and, crucial in Emergency cases, fast communication (information alerts) with the Target Group (RI.2.1).
5.Enhanced efficiency of earthquake emergency response planing in BSB Cross-Border Areas and promotion of contact among BSB countries to exchange good practices on early warning systems, allowing the population exposed to earthquake hazard to take actions to reduce risk and prepare effective responses.
6.Improved Operational Capacity of partner Institutions and Target Group members who will use programme support to built REDAS and improve data sharing and cross-border environmental information exchange systems (COI.2.1.2).
7.Awareness raised over Environmental actions and awareness raising activities (COI17) with at least 500 participants in 4 countries; additional dissemination activities (conferences, media interviews, press release) will reach more than 4.000 persons (COI.2.1).
Focused dissemination and REDAS open structure ensures future expansion and adaptation to all BSB areas, to multiply results and set the foundation for cross-BSB common practices and joint actions in Earthquake Disaster Mitigation.
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Partners (6)
Lead Partner:
The Legal Successor of Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia - Special Account for Research Funds, International Hellenic University Special Account for Research Funds (IHU-SARF)
Department:
Civil Engineering and Surveying & Geomatics Engineering Departments
Address:
Terma Magnessias Str, 62100 Serres, Greece
Legal status:
public
Website:
https://cm.ihu.gr/
Total budget:
EUR 305 000.00
ENI budget:
EUR 280 600.00
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Universitatea Ovidius din Constanta
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Name:
Universitatea Ovidius din Constanta
Department:
Civil Engineering
Address:
Bd. Mamaia 124, 900527 Constanta, Romania
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.univ-ovidius.ro/
Total budget:
EUR 159 860.00
ENI budget:
EUR 147 071.20
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Gebze Technical University
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Name:
Gebze Technical University
Department:
Civil Engineering Department
Address:
Cumhuriyet Mahallesi, 2254. Sk. No:2 2, 41400 Kocaeli, Turkey
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.gtu.edu.tr/insaat
Total budget:
EUR 205 000.00
ENI budget:
EUR 188 600.00
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Democritus University of Thrace - Special Account for Research Funds
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Name:
Democritus University of Thrace - Special Account for Research Funds
Department:
Civil Engineering
Address:
Vassilissis Sofias 12, GR 67100 Xanthi, Greece
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.duth.gr
Total budget:
EUR 85 000.00
ENI budget:
EUR 78 200.00
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Institut de Geologie și Seismologie
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Name:
Institut de Geologie și Seismologie
Department:
Department of Seismology
Address:
Academiei 3, MD2028 Chisinau, Moldova
Legal status:
public
Website (not verified):
http://www.igs.asm.md
Total budget:
EUR 50 000.00
ENI budget:
EUR 46 000.00
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Institute of Engineering Seismology & Earthquake Engineering (ITSAK) - Research Unit of Earthquake Planning & Protection Organization (EPPO)
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Name:
Institute of Engineering Seismology & Earthquake Engineering (ITSAK) - Research Unit of Earthquake Planning & Protection Organization (EPPO)
Department:
Institute of Engineering Seismology & Earthquake Engineering
Address:
Dassyliou Terma, Eleones, Pylea, 55535 Thessaloniki, Greece
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.itsak.gr
Total budget:
EUR 170 000.00
ENI budget:
EUR 156 400.00
