The overall goal of the eNOTICE project was to establish a European network of CBRN training, testing and demonstration centres aiming at enhancing CBRN training capacity for improved preparedness and incident response through increased collaboration between CBRN training centres and practitioners’ needs-driven CBRN innovation and research.
eNOTICE was coordinated by the Université catholique de Louvain.
Elaborate a framework for European network of CBRN training centers, testing and demonstration sites:
- To identify and roster the EU CBRN TC, testing and demonstration sites and map their capabilities, facilities, specificities, and geographical location, as well as their professional, economic and legal links. This is the framework for categorising the centres, and for elaboration of a capacity/quality label.
- To survey participants interacting with and influencing the CBRN TC network: users (practitioners, first responders, technology operators, customers), technology suppliers (industry and research), training professionals and policy makers. A thorough analysis and identification of their respective needs and expectations for process and technology innovation was carried out to draw up a roadmap of factors, criteria and motivations prompting their membership to this network.
- To identify Key Performance Indicators of a successful network of TC (e.g. DMTRAINET [AETS/DG ECHO 2013]), including the analysis of barriers often hampering practitioners to fully and efficiently participate in a network, and identification of levers and drivers of commitment to a collaborative community during the project.
- To capitalize on prior mapping of CBRN and security stakeholders: CBRN component of the Community of Users (CoU) on secure safe and resilient societies (DG HOME), the EDEN project end-user and supplier platforms, the relevant SEC-05-DRS-2016 CBRN Cluster network of CBRN suppliers and practitioners, DG ECHO DM TRAINET, DG DEVCO CBRN Centre of Excellence, UNICRI and JRC and regional/international organisations (e.g. IAEA, WHO, OPCW).
- To elaborate a global framework for a sustainable European network of CBRN TC and associated stakeholders wishing to cooperate with peers, to build on the current eNOTICE consortium and expand it further.
Establish a web-based information and communication platform to provide, share and disseminate information during and after the project:
- To make the eNOTICE network visible through a web based information and communication platform informing on CBRN TC specificities and profiles (i.e., training and testing facilities), enabling seamless interactions between practitioners and technology innovation providers.
- To encourage all stakeholders to share and discuss information, needs and expectations through web based functions and to raise awareness of shared interests, synergies and opportunities for collaboration.
- To make the capacity of the CBRN TC, testing and demonstration sites visible through a ‘capacity label’ informing on expertise, training and testing capabilities, specificities and profiles.
Set up an operational transactional network for optimising investments by pooling and sharing resources, expertise, and effective practices:
- To identify good practices in preparing and organising stand-alone exercises and exercises combined with tests, validations or demonstrations.
- To organise joint activities between the eNOTICE beneficiaries or between an eNOTICE project beneficiary and external partners to demonstrate the benefits of sharing resources and optimising outcome.
- To support EU policies (DG HOME, DG ECHO, DG DEVCO and others) through improved national and cross-border capacities, hence better CBRN incidents preparedness and response, and increased resilience to CBRN attacks, new or emerging threats.
- To provide recommendations to the EU R&D programme based on regular feedback from CBRN training professionals and practitioners, and the lessons learned from eNOTICE joint activities.
- To elaborate a plan to pool and share resources for optimisation of investments – propose and describe the enhancement, functionality and sustainability mechanism for the network.