• Code: PART-IT-CON-159
• Publication Date: 09/11/2011

Organization details

• Country: Italy
• Organization type: Consultant
• Organization description: Since the start up on 2003, BIP has moved along a curve of true success becoming a leader in the Italian consultancy market in only 6 years. Bip is a 100% partnership company, the largest among the Italian pure consultancy firms and the one with the most impressive growth in recent years (30% pa). The international expansion, started with the creation of BIP Iberia on November 2005, has been recently completed by the opening of the Latin America (3 offices) and Southern Mediterranean Operations. The alliance with Bearing Point in Europe/Usa and with Abeam in Asia is providing to Bip Clients an actual global network.

Partner Search details

• Programme / theme: Security
• Topic: SEC-2012.5.3-2 Establishment of a first responders platform for interoperability
• Call deadline: 23/11/2011
• Project Title / Acronym: -
• Project Description: First responders are highly skilled and dedicated people who face a wide range of risks in their daily work. The EU and each Member State must recognise this issue and pay special attention to the situation. Because the first responder work is very varied the co-operation and its interoperability platform must solve many diverse problems, including different criteria for the identification of risk, different incident management systems, different accountabilities, different operating protocols, different communication systems, different technical solutions, different accessibility to information and equipment, different responses to CBRNE attacks and so on. Therefore, we are proposing a project that verifies first responder needs, identifies relevant gaps and presents a road map to indicate possible solutions for interoperability. To upgrade the first responder co-operation and interoperability platform we consider recent EU security projects that have shown the diverse nature of response organisations during extreme events that quite often undermines the „golden thread? that encircles the responding emergency services and leads to response fragmentation. The main objective is to improve co-operation and interoperability platform for all types of safety and security missions by involving end users (police, fire brigades, security, health services etc.) in a more systematic manner throughout the project and ensuring that results match their needs. This is achieved by: - identifying current state of the art in the first responder needs in varied domains using an all hazard approach - threats such as terrorism, crime, natural disasters, industrial accidents, social crisis, etc., - gaining an understanding of interoperability platforms in Member States and their transferability to EU level platform, - analysing recent responses to major disasters and to identify interoperability gaps, - understanding problems that occur at responses and to promote strategies and tools to mitigate problems (best practices and guidelines), - modelling a standard level of response across Europe that would ensure accountability in terms of human rights, - identifying weaknesses in the first responder response frameworks across the EU, - facilitating co-operation between industry and first responders to promote interoperability, - producing a roadmap with recommendations for further research, policy development and continuing professional development. RESPLAT will use previous EU project results and first responder expertise as a foundation to build a new state of the art. Project activity key components will be to use all accessible relevant data, to systematically process and interpret them with aim to “blend” the learning into a coherent document for the EU benefit. Such approach ensures compatibility between first responder demands and appropriate interfaces. All relevant information will be transferred to the EU industry and the EU public administrations to upgrade the EU overall competitiveness. This will almost certainly be true for the management of multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency events that involve many organisations and more than one member state. The very nature of these types of events will usually require the coming together of various organisations and agencies from national governments to local first responders to share resources and information in a distributed fast moving and changing environment. The proposed project is related with recent EU activities and is focused on a level of co-operation and interoperability platform that go beyond resources and tools to embrace the knowledge, information, doctrines, policy, protocols and working practices of those tasked with managing such extreme events and will endeavour to identify problems and present some recommendations for the issues raised by an interoperability platform for first responders.
• Partner Sougth / Expertise required: An Italian end user