The DARE (Deployment And engagement of Resources and citizens for European Emergency Response) project aims to enhance Europe’s capability to respond to large-scale cross-country disasters, focusing on interoperability and information sharing. By addressing the challenges posed by varied national response systems, equipment, training, and procedures, DARE targets four main gaps: operational standardization, command structure interoperability, digital tool integration, and citizen engagement.The project seeks to harmonize emergency response across European countries by creating guidelines for both technical and command-level procedures. This involves comparing and mapping Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to identify commonalities and improve interoperability. DARE will develop an open-source Dashboard that integrates real-time data from diverse sources, including hazard monitoring systems, local authorities, and citizen inputs. This platform will support situational awareness, enhance communication between command centers and field responders, and provide a public-facing layer for citizen engagement, including tasking volunteers.To achieve these goals, DARE involves numerous European partners, including research institutions, emergency services, NGOs, and universities, collaborating to test harmonized procedures and training modules through workshops and field exercises. The Dashboard will support standardized information exchange, enhancing cross-country deployments and assisting local commanders with up-to-date hazard and resource information. By leveraging artificial intelligence, it will facilitate multilingual communication and engage citizens, enabling real-time volunteer mobilization and feedback loops with communities during crises. Through structured training, interoperability assessments, and cross-country trials, DARE aims to create a resilient emergency response framework. This system will be scalable and adaptable to various types of emergencies.

GOBEYOND is an innovation action that will develop and test Multi-Risk Impact-based Early Warning System (MR-IEWS) platforms for geohazards and weather/climate events adapted to support Civil Protection Authorities and first responders in their situational awareness and rapid deployment in Europe, countries of the Union for Mediterranean (UfM), and beyond. For this end, GOBEYOND will capitalise on the legacy of EWS for high-impact geo and weather/climate events, and on the impact-forecasting algorithms from previous projects of the consortium. GOBEYOND will identify most innovative algorithms for geohazards and incorporate them with available weather/climate impact-based algorithms into a common IEWS. These algorithms will be integrated with high-resolution vulnerability, exposure and risk information at regional and local levels to describe the severity of the hazards in terms of the expected socio-economic impacts to evolve towards a real-time DSSs. MR-IEWS will be co-designed in a participatory framework in which authorities, citizens, and civil society representatives can feel listened to, and actively engaged in co-design and co-creation roles. GOBEYOND will test the MR-IEWS platforms developed for international (Europe and UfM countries), regional and municipal environments. This will be done through the 5 regional demonstrations in Andalusia (ES), Attica (EL), Campania (IT), a Canton in Switzerland and the Al Hoceima province (Morocco). A sixth demonstration in 4 EU municipalities will test advanced capabilities as communication services based on the latest developments on Site Specific Warnings, crowdsourcing techniques, artificial intelligence, SMS Cell Broadcast, and capacities to trigger actions from regional emergency and self-protection plans. The platforms will run in 6 real-time 24/7 operational demonstrations during 24 Months of the project to test them in real-time under conditions of operational use, achieving TRL 7 and 8.