OVERC.O.M.E. project has been co-funded by the European Union Mechanism of Civil Protection (UCPM) under the Call UCPM – 2022 – PP .
OVERC.O.M.E. develops from 2023 till 2025 Prometheus System for CBRN emergencies and as a Virtual Operational Room for general interventions at the border. It enhances Prometheus System already developed by Prometheus Project till 2021.
It has been implemented by a consortium of Italian and French end-users: the Italian National Fire and Rescue Service (CNVVF), the French Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Savoie (SDIS73), together with the International CBRNE Institute (ICI) of Belgium. The coordinator of the project is the CNVVF. One of the objectives of the project is to improve the quality of CBRN operations, enhancing the coordination to take the “right decision” and facilitating the interoperability toward a “Team Europe” approach as well as to Improve the cooperation for any type of general joint Intervention at the border.
Thus, OVERC.O.M.E. intends to improve current tools, covering the lack of procedures and standard operational forms in CBRN, to harmonise the type of data useful to the coordination of an emergency and facilitate the flow of information to respond to the operational needs, especially when more than one country is involved. The project takes into consideration the standard international model actually used in USAR operations (INSARAG Guidelines 2020) which is intended to be the leverage to improve standardisation in CBRN scope, applying a methodology that comes from USAR operations as a possible model. The project will test the CBRN forms and the CBRN procedures during two exercises in 2024 to enhance mutual cooperation in a scenario simulating an intervention at the border between Italy and France and will enhance the already available data management system in USAR operations, named “Prometheus” that could also be used by the teams during a CBRN emergency.
In the frame of protocols of cross border cooperation (CBC) already existing between the Ministries of the Interior of France and Italy signed in 2007, OVERC.O.M.E. is also aimed at enhancing a virtual operational room between Turin (Italy) and Chambéry (France) to improve daily operations at the border and make it as a model for other borders’ joint action. Thus, S.O.F.I.A. which stands for Operational Room France Italy Alpine Arch (Sala Operativa Francia Italia Arco Alpino/Salle Opérationnelle France Italie Arc Alpin) is developed In the frame of OVERC.O.M.E. to facilitate the coordination of cross-border interventions in terms of: a) correct classification of an event; b) unambiguous address; c) standard acronyms for equipment and resources; d) translation on real time of additional information
Prometheus for CBRN
Prometheus is a Management System for the coordination of complex emergencies, aimed at information management and resource coordination.Non-volatile information (e.g. radio or telephone), conveyed through digital forms, re-consultable, visible to all actors and in real time.Display of deployed and deployable resources throughout the scenario with advanced map support.Possibility of sharing general information via an internal Cloud. The user who connects to Prometheus sees 3 access buttons, respectively to the USAR area, the CBRN area and the SOFIA area.
Access to one or more areas of the system depends on the user’s account type.
If a CBRN intervention, opened immediately on SOFIA, is configured as a relevant intervention that cannot be managed with the present functions alone, an Emergency can be opened in the Specific CBRN area (Prometheus CBRN).
In detail, the following functions are present within the CBRN area:
• Management of all CBRN Activities
• CBRN Teams Management
• Cartography management
• Assignment of CBRN teams to work areas
• Data collection from the Territory
• Cartographic evolution
• Logistical requests
• Situation Reports
• Witness interviews
• Injuries management
• Automatic and manual logbook.
