Call updates

Nov 23, 2021 6:41:41 PM
HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01

A total of 68 proposals have been submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below including the indicative budget of the topics for 2021:

HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-04: 2 proposals (indicative budget: 4M€)

Jun 30, 2021 12:00:01 AM
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-03(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-05(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-01(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-04(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-02(HORIZON-IA)

Developing a prioritisation mechanism for research programming in standardisation related to natural hazards and/or CBRN-E sectors
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-04

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Disaster-Resilient Society 2021 (HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Opening date: 30 June 2021
Deadline date: 23 November 2021 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Projects’ results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Building up on existing initiatives, development of a consolidated platform gathering key actors involved in DRM for natural hazards and/or CBRN-E to identify on-going standardisation activities, discuss key features related to them, including classification, and prioritise actions (consultation, dissemination, research programming).
• Setting a two-steps mechanism to (1) evaluate standardisation needs, taking into account existing and running activities, and establish priorities in close consultation with key users (policy-makers and practitioners at all levels, including Commission’s DGs, national and regional authorities and relevant actors), and (2) take actions relevant to the identified priorities according to their degree of maturity, including research programming in the Disaster-resilient Societies part of the Horizon Europe programme.
• Establish a standardisation roadmap at international (ISO) and European (EN) levels, leading to improved coordination of activities at EU and international levels and cross-fertilisation among different sectors.

Scope:

Increasing resilience to natural disasters or CBRN-E events closely relies on management procedures, technologies and tools. An important feature supporting Disaster Risk Management and relevant international and EU policies is standardisation needed to improve the technical, operational and semantic interoperability of command, control and communication systems, or the interoperability of detection equipment and tools in the areas of CBRN-E. A range of actions have been undertaken to identify and prioritise standardisation activities, from pre-normative (design of new tools and methods) to co-normative (comparison / validation of existing tools and methods) research to mandate of mature items to European Standardisation Organisations via the CEN-CENELEC and ETSI. While some research projects delivered tangible CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs) and made progress in standardisation-related research in the areas of natural hazards and CBRN-E civil protection and crisis management, no mechanism yet exists to ensure that standardisation is developed in close consultation with key stakeholders such as policy-makers and practitioners at all levels (European, national, regional and local). There is a need to ensure that any standardisation activities where a significant contribution to improve the disaster resilience through standardisation can be expected are developed in close cooperation with end users and prioritised with them while paying attention to the legal frameworks in place.

In this context it is important to remind that standardisation should support operations and policy-making to supplement it but should by no means substitute it. While standardisation of technology may be more straightforward, the right balance does especially have to be sought for processes. Based on existing or developing platforms, a prioritisation mechanism should hence be established, taking into account classification aspects (in particular in the CBRN-E sector), leading to decisions related to on-going or new standardisation items that should be directed in an organised way to pre- or co-normative research actions, CWAs or mandates, or to guidelines / Standard Operating Procedures not requiring formal standardisation (corporate voluntary agreements). This mechanism should have a close connection with future research programming and ensure close synergies with standardisation activities on European (e.g. CEN/TC 391) and international level (e.g. ISO/TC 292).

In order to achieve the expected outcomes of this topic, the involvement of chairs of relevant CEN and/or ISO Technical Committees in an advisory role/function is strongly encouraged.