Towards a pan-European trial and validation framework to support a pan-European approach to capability development and innovation management in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Management

The DRIVER+ project organized its first Policy Research Dialogue Roundtable (PRDR) in Brussels on 28 February 2019. Aiming at fostering a dialogue on how a pan-European approach to capability development and innovation management in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) and Crisis Management (CM) can be supported through a common trial and validation framework, this first PRDR was particularly concerned with collecting thoughts and perspectives on three topics:

• The development of an innovation eco-system in the field of DRR and CM
• The improvement of information and results exchange between research projects, practitioner and knowledge networks
• The introduction of a Pan-European trial and validation framework into the research programming of Horizon Europe

Together with an expert audience involving several EC DGs, international organisations, national civil protection authorities from the Member States and representatives from selected Research & Innovation projects, the discussions led to the following key results: