Innovation in Crisis Management

Chiara Fonio is Research Associate at the Vrije Universiteit (VU, Amsterdam), Faculty of Social Sciences, Organization Sciences. She has been working in academia and European institutions (Joint Research Centre, European Commission, where the work on the trial guidance methodology was designed and developed). She has extensive experience in European-funded projects and authored a number of publications on crisis management and surveillance (including, among others, Big Data, Surveillance, and Crisis Management, co-edited with Kees Boersma, 2017). Her research interests cover disaster governance, crisis management and surveillance studies. Adam Widera is Managing Director of the Competence Center for Crisis Management at the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS), hosted by the University of Münster, Germany. After graduating in political science, philosophy, and political economy, he pursued his doctorate in information systems. His research areas cover modelling, simulation and performance measurement in humanitarian and disaster relief logistics and design and evaluation of information systems for humanitarians. He has published over 50 research papers in international journals and conferences and has been involved in various international research projects. Tomasz Zwęgliński is Colonel of the Polish State Fire Service working as an academic at the Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw, with above 20 years of experience. He has a PhD in security sciences and a master's in fire engineering, is a qualified expert in the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, and is an expert in crisis and disaster management, CBRN, and occupational safety. He is also a manager of research and international civil protection capacity-building projects (e.g. in Ukraine). His key research interest focuses on the evaluation of disaster management exercises, including new solutions. EU Research Executive Agency expert. His recent publications include Exercising in a Radioactive Environment–a Case Study from CBRNE Exercise in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (2019), Cascading Effect as a Contemporary Challenge for Crisis Management (2020), and Polish Approach to Sharing Resources Deployable for the EU Civil Protection Mechanism (2021).

Introduction

Part 1: Current and new methodological approaches to assess innovation in CM

1. Measuring Innovation: The Current State of the Art

2. The Trial Guidance Methodology

Part 2: Technical infrastructures to assess potentially innovative solutions

3. Testbed Technical Infrastructure

4. DRIVER+ Online Knowledge Management and Inference Toolset

Part 3: Implementation and evaluation of innovative solutions in crisis management

Sub-Chapter 3.1: Trials Perspective

5. The Trial in The Netherlands

6. The Trial in Austria: Testing New Technologies for Increasing Situational Awareness and the Management of Spontaneous Volunteers

7. New Approach to Selection of Innovative Solutions Tailored to the Practitioners’ Needs

Sub-Chapter 3.2: Simulation as Decision Support

8. Dynamic Flood Modelling in Disaster Response

9. On the Practitioner-Driven Use and Misuse of Simulation as Decision Support: Lessons from a Mass Evacuation Trial

Sub-Chapter 3.3: Situation Awareness Approaches

10. Three Dimensional Model and Orthophotomap’s Quality Evaluation towards Facilitating Aerial Reconnaissance of Flood Response Needs

11. A Multimodal Remote Sensing System for Improved Decision Making in Earthquake Response

Part 4: Towards a paradigm shift in assessing innovative CM solutions

12. TGM Application in a Horizon Project

13. Applying the Trial Guidance Methodology to Evaluate ResponDrone - A Situation Awareness Platform for First Responders

14. STADEM: An Adapted Trial Guidance Methodology (TGM) for Pandemic Management

15. Interoperability and Standardization supporting Preparedness and Response to Disasters

16. Conclusions