Project SI.PRO.C I* *(Italian acronym)

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Project SI.PRO.C I (Italian acronym)
INTERREG IIIC
Interregional Response to Natural and Man-made
Catastrophes
Presentation by Ms Paola Amato, RD expert,
Province of Macerata, Italy
RESCUE INTERREG IIIC FINAL CONFERENCE Tessalon
iki, Greece 11 December 2006
Paper by Ms Paola Amato, Mr Giordano Piancatelli
and Mr Luigi Vissani
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GENERAL INFORMATION

• Type Individual Project
• Total Budget 1.543.186 EURO
• Period from Jan. 2004 to June 2007
• (366 months extention)
• 13 organisations/institutions of Civil Protection
  
• Equivalent administrative level

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PARTNERS

• Province of Macerata (IT) Lead partner
• Province of Pesaro Urbino (Marche Region, IT)
• Region Marche (IT)
• Province of Trento (IT)
• Diputación de Córdoba (ES)
• City of Oldenburg (DE)
• Academic Research Institute of Computer
  Technology (GR)
• Municipality Agency for Development of Local
  Enterprises (GR)
• Province of Estern Attica (GR)
• District of Bielsko-Biala (PL)
• Regional Development Agency (PL)
• South Bohemia Region (CZ)
• Foundation for Civil Protection (HU)

ITALY GERMANY GREECE SPAIN
POLAND CZECH REP. HUNGARY
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OBJECTIVES

• To improve the local and regional response to
  catastrophes
• and disasters through interregional collaboration
  across
• Europe
• Develop and improve methods and good practices to
  create an organisational model capable of
  coordinating, managing and optimising
  information, human and material resources
• Share the use of new information and
  communication technologies
• Improve the information and preparation of the
  public to increase the level of self-protection
  of citizens
• Enhance the coherence and integration of actions
  in the field of civil protection between regions
  across Europe, especially by the participation of
  the Eastern European countries considering their
  recent EU entry

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AREAS OF COOPERATION

• Mechanism for coordination, management and
  organisation of the civil protection system (WP1)
• The use of new information and communication
  technologies (WP2)
• Methods, techniques and instruments for how to
  monitor and map risks (WP3)
• Methods and tools for efficient information and
  preparation of the citizens (WP4)

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The SIPROCI INTERREG IIIC main strength of
cooparation

• The project SIPROCI
• represents a rare example of large cooperation
  among 13 European institutions/organisations of
  Civil Protection from 7 member states (including
  4 CentralEastern countries)
• Has favored the exchange of experience and
  information through specific technical sessions,
  exchange of staff, partecipation to
  exercises/simulations of civil protection carried
  out and promoted by each partner in their
  respective context
• Has attempted to set up unified
  methodologies/models/procedures the most possible
  neutral against the various legal and
  administrative systems, specific political
  agendas of participants countries
  models/procedures/methodologies that could be in
  case adopted by other Member States
• Has favored communication among partners via
  VoIP, internet, website, videoconferences.

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Information and Communication among partners
Technical staff of SIPROCI of the Provincia
Communication/Exchange/
Partners 9 European 3 Italian

• Transnational meetings
• VoIP technology (Skype)
• - Communications - videoconferences
• E-mail
• Projects WebSite www.siproci.net
• - Intranet (private interface)
• - Forum (discussions)
• Telephone (!)

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Methodology and work-plan
Formal start Jan. 2004 (delayed to May)
Status 36/42 mounths

• EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
• - Factfinding analysis
• May to October 2004 (6 months)
• EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS GOOD
  PRACTICES
• - Working Groups
• October 04 to October 05 (1 year)
• TRANSFER AND APPLICATION TO THE LOCAL SYSTEM
• - National Taskforces simulations of civil
  protection
• November 2005 to December 2006 (14 months)
• DISSEMINATION AND COMMUNICATION
• July 2006 to April 2007

End according to extention- June 2007
Results
Fact finding report
4 Good practice reports (thematic areas)
Final vademecum of civil protection
SIPROCI-RESCUE joint European Conference in
Brussels
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ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
Formal start Jan. 2004 (delayed to May)
Status 6/42 months

• EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
• - Factfinding analysis

End according to extention- June 2007
Results
Fact finding report
FACT FINDING REPORT A specialists report on
the different systems of civil protection
providing detailed info about competences, plans,
mechanisms, innovative ICT technology applied to
civil protection in each partner national
context. ITALY GERMANY GREECE - SPAIN
CZECH REPUBBLIC HUNGARY -
POLAND Identification of constraints that were
the basis of the proposals/models/methodologies
of the WGs specialistic sessions
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Activities and results
Formal start Jan. 2004 (delayed to May)
Status 18/42 months
End according to extention- June 2007
Results

• EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS GOOD
  PRACTICES
• - Transnational Working Groups
• October 04 to October 05 (1 year)

4 Good practice reports (thematic areas)

• WG1 Mechanisms for coordination, management and
  organisation of the civil protection system
  developed by local administrations
• WG2 The use of new information and communication
  technologies applied to civil protection
• WG3 Methods, techniques instruments for how to
  monitor and map risks unifying approches and
  methodologies to risk mapping
• WG4 European strategies for efficient
  information and communication to citizens
  (pre-durng and after emergencies).

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Activities and results
Formal start Jan. 2004 (delayed to May)
Status 32/42 months

• TRANSFER AND APPLICATION TO THE LOCAL SYSTEM
• - National Taskforces
• November 2005 to December 2006 (14 months)

End according to extention- June 2007
Results
Finalisation of the Vademecum of civil potection

• Trying out testing results and outcome in local
• contexts
• Training sessions / seminars
• Information events
• Simulation
• Exchange of staff

Main constraints and weak points
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Main References to EU actions
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Case of Italy Governance and decentralisation
policies of the 1990s

• Past approach (before late 1990s)

Hierarchic level of decision making Top-down
approach
State
Regions
Provinces and municipalities

• Todays approach (after decentralisation
  policies)

National Government /State
Shared level of decision making Bottom-up
approach
Local administrations
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How to improve local/regional mechanisms for
coordination, management and organisation of the
civil protection system (WG1)

• Focus based on two major technical and
  communication mechnaims
• Local plan of civil protection suggesting
  minimum standads or minimum contents of one of
  the most important command control mechanism of
  civil protection.
• Glossary and visual signs of civil protection
  improving communication among experts and raise
  citizens awareness on the role of civil
  protection and major risks posed by emergencies

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Setting up common approch and methodology to risk
mapping (WG3)

• 3. Methodology for risk mapping based on
  technical knowledge applied in each participant
  countries.
• The innovation stands in the analysis and
  identification of leves of vulnerability and, as
  a consequence the levels of risk, as the
  expression and synthesis of the complex
  interaction of both the anthropic and the
  territorial systems.

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European strategies for communicaton to citizens
in civil protection (WG4)

• 4. Defining of an Istruction manual addressed
  to citizens and administrations which focuses on
  
• Preparative communication, whose objective is to
  inform the general public about the civil
  protection system
• Preventing communication whose objective is to
  inform the general public about events and crisis
  situations
• Communication during the crisis situations (for
  predictable events and for unpredictable events)
• Communication according to different target
  groups (elderly and children).

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PROPOSAL 1. Plan of civil protection- minimum
standards

• Rationale
• Recasting of the 2001 civil protection mechanim
  hilights the importace, as a core contributions
  to reinforcing preparedeness with EU, of two main
  elements
• Assessment of civil protection capabilities
  (building up scenarios)
• A modular approach (rapidely deployable and
  self-sufficient modules) .

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Why a plan?Contents and aims of a local plan of
civil protection

• A Local plan of Civil Protection can be defined
  as
• A plan drawn up by a local authority providing a
  set of organic data (territorys main
  characteristics, risks, human resources and means
  etc.) and procedures (command-control system,
  alarm system, model of intervention) related to
  the overall organisation arrangement of the civil
  protection aiming at best responding to a given
  event and its consequences.

System of Civil Protection
PREVENSION
FORECAST
main activities
RECOVERING/ RECONSTRUCTION
PROTECTION
Forecast
Protection
Prevention
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Plan of civil protection suggesting minimum
contents
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PROPOSAL 2. Glossary and visual signs of civil
protection for EU citizens

• European signs of Civil Protection

3 experimental signs
Target group
EU citizens

• Glossary of civil protection

Terms and definitions provided in 7 bilingual
versions

• Objectives
• To make citizens aware of the role played by the
  civil protection which is not merely to be
  associated to crises and emergency and which
  indeed covers important phases as prevention,
  forecast and protection.
• Make people aware of the main mechnisms, tools
  and procedures developed at local level by local
  administrations, prime actors first called in to
  manage emergencies and safeguard peoples
  security and safety.
• Raise people awareness on the major facilities,
  shelters associated to emergency situations
  (rest-centre, assembly point, red zone area).

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Glossary Classification of terminology of civil
protection
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EN-Assembly point
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EN- Limited access point
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EN-Rest Centre
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UNIFIED METHODOLOGY FOR RISK MAPPING
Simplified Risk Equation RISK HAZARD
VULNERABILITY
HAZARD
VULNERABILITY
AVALANCHES
POPULATION
EARTHQUAKES
BUILDINGS
FLOODS
PRODUCTIVE AREAS
FLOODS ASSOCIATED TO DAMS BURST
CULTURAL GOODS
FOREST FIRES
INFRASTRUCTURAL NETWORKS
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS
TECHNOLOGICAL NETWORKS
LANDSLIDES
ENVIROMENTAL GOODS
SNOW STORMS AND SNOWFALL
WINTER STORMS (WIND STORMS)
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WG3
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UNIFIED METHODOLOGY FOR RISK MAPPING
FLOWCHART HVA PROCESS (Hazard Vulnerability
Analysis)
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WG3
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UNIFIED METHODOLOGY FOR RISK MAPPING
HAZARD INDEX Hn
VULNERABILITY INDEX Vn
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RISK
INDEX Rn
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WG3
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Final results and cooperation with RESCUE

• Policy paper on Civil protection
• Common approach, strategy and information/dissemin
  ation campaignof projects results at EU level
• Final Conference in Brussels (April 2007)