2nd VALKYRIES NEWSLETTER
SEPT 2022
The emergency medical system has a unique role when deployed as first aid response on disaster situations, where Multi-Casualty Incidents (MCI) tend to reveal resource insufficiency (rescue personnel, healthcare providers, facilities, etc.), significant breakdowns in the local health care facilities usually damaged or destroyed, malfunctioning communication infrastructure and the jeopardized ability to deliver additional resources. In order to address these situations and related ones, the different EU emergency teams have been quick to adopt the latest technological advances, such as digitalization, new generation communication networks, drones, etc., which have led to new opportunities for procedural and collaborative improvements.
However, given the rapid proliferation of new related opportunities, their implementation often significantly precedes their standardization, leading to different intersecting practices. This reduced cross-border collaboration opportunities and difficult to define, schedule and enforce joint lines of industrial and research development able to bring common disruptive solutions to the EU response teams.
The challenge of this project is to analyse these gaps for then designing key pre-standardization and harmonization actions to be implemented in a reference integration platform and demonstrated in four different cross-border and cross-sectorial scenarios.
The consortium is coordinated by Indra and brings together 17 partners from 8 EU countries.
SIGRUN is a combination of interconnected and harmonized solutions, oriented to emulate advanced communications, information sharing and tactical C2 services for the first-aid responders. The SIGRUN platform will result from the integration of real, simulated, and digitalized (e.g., Digital Twins) first aid EMS systems and assets, where harmonization on the disrupting opportunities can be implemented and verified. Deployed together with the VALKYRIES testbeds, virtual labs or demonstration environments, SIGRUN will be integrated for assisting the creation and dynamically update of a synthetic and immersive working environment for generating, integrating, managing and visualizing the project resulting harmonization experiments and their effect.
All of this will be developed under an isolated multi-domain environment where the real operation of existing solutions can be combined with simulated EMS response missions, communications, feeds, etc. As agreed with the participant end-user, SIGRUN will depict a C2 focused platform to be held by two core functional pillars:
An early effort between Consortium and committed end-users (as partners or external advisors) agreed that the selection of harmonization to be deployed in SIGRUN will prioritize to provide added value on the adoption of the following technological background toward achieve:
VALKYRIES ambitions to channel the attention of the main EU actors in early response to health emergencies regardless of their area of operation (local, regional, national, European, international) or sector (health services, civil protection, LEAs, etc.).
Despite the VALKYRIES Consortium is already composed by relevant related end-users, practitioners and/or critical infrastructure operators, which are enumerated below:
It is being assisted by three bodies where partners and external expert will cooperate: External Advisory Board, Ethics Panel and Innovation Board. In addition, the project will hold three VALKYRIES Workshops, which are expected to gather more than 30 international experts per edition. The first Workshop took place between on March-May 2022 and the second is planned for the end of September 2022.