DAREnet: Deliverable D4.4 - Report of Topic Working Groups: Knowledge Base for Assessment and Roadmapping Cycle 2

Abstract

The overall objective of the H2020 project DAREnet is to identify and analyse gaps and potentials for improvement with regard to flood and disaster management in the area of the Danube river basin. A key instrument to achieve this goal is a knowledge base (KB) that contains user expertise and know-how of actors of disaster management along the Danube. The deliverable D4.4 describes the current status of entries within the KB at the end of the second DAREnet roadmapping cycle. The contents of the KB are based on the work of WP4 deriving relevant topics within the fields “Solutions from Research and RDI Projects”, “Solutions on the Market”, “Best Prac-tices and Lessons Learnt” as well as “Flood History and Background Information”. In the second DAREnet roadmapping cycle, we decided to follow a new approach. Therefore, we defined four holistic RDI topics that are related to training aspects of diverse domains of flood management during the entire disaster management cycle. These topics are “Coordi-nation, Command and Control”, “Alerting and Communication”, “Rescue Operations and Emergency measures” and “Logistics and Assistance”. The expertise within the TWG was collected through intensive research and with the help of the DAREnet National Contacts (DNC) through expert interviews with national actors of disaster management using a sur-vey as well as during a workshop were those topics were intensively discussed. The collected data were subsequently reviewed and analysed under the aspects of “Relevance of the RDI Topic”, “Practitioner Needs”, “Available Solutions”, “Innovation Opportunities” and “Lessons Learnt”. Reports describing the related findings of each TWG are part of D4.4 as well.