CEN Workshops

The European H2020 project STRATEGY (Facilitating EU pre-standardization process through streamlining and validating interoperability in systems and procedures involved in the crisis management cycle) seeks to promote pre-standardization of systems and procedures related to Crisis Management by streamlining, testing, and validating standards, guidelines, and recommendations, focusing on interoperability aspects according to the operational needs of practitioners.

To do this, researchers within the project created CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs) and Technical Specifications (TSs), which may go on to be adopted as standards across the EU.

STRATEGY partners completed and published 11 CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs) and 2 Technical Specifications (TSs) for eight streams within Crisis Management.

1. Search and Rescue

Requirements for acquiring digital information from victims during Search and Rescue operations.
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

2. Critical Infrastructure

CWA 18028: Semantic layer definition and suitability of EDXL-CAP+EDXL-SitRep. 
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

3. Response Planning

CWA 18024: Emergency management – Incident situational reporting for Critical Infrastructures
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

4. Command and Control

Collaborative emergency response – Common addressing format and emergency identification protocol
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

Management of forest fire incidents – SITAC-based symbology
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

5. Early Warning

Guidelines for effective social media messages in crisis and disaster management
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

Exchanging of building and infrastructure damage information with Common Alerting Protocol
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

6. CBRN-E (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosive threats)

Societal and citizen security — Electronic Chain of Custody for CBRNE events — Part 1: Overview and concepts (Technical Specification), and

Societal and citizen security — Electronic Chain of Custody for CBRNE events — Part 2: Data management and audit (Technical Specification)
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

7. Training

Specifications for Digital Scenarios for Search and Rescue Exercises
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

Evaluation of exercises – Implementation guidelines
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

8. Terminology

Guidelines for the mapping of terminology and icons
Watch a video on the purpose of this work here.

To read more about the context of each CWA, their strengths, and opportunities for wider adoption and the positive impacts they may have, please click here.

Many of these CWAs and TSs will become freely available at this link throughout September and October 2023.