DARE

Project Description

DARE aims to address the cross-country interoperability gap, while enhancing situational awareness and citizens engagement in the context of wildfire and flood extreme events.

The project targets four main gaps in European emergency response: operational standardisation, command structure interoperability, digital tool integration, and citizen engagement. It seeks to harmonise emergency response across European countries by creating guidelines for both technical and command-level procedures, and by developing open-source digital tools that support real-time situational awareness and cross-country coordination.

LINKS Foundation Activities

LINKS Foundation is a key partner and leads the following activity:

Conversational Chatbot Development

Design and development of a conversational Chatbot powered by AI to improve:

• information exchange between volunteers and command centres
• volunteers management during emergency operations
• spontaneous volunteers’ engagement and tasking

Funding & Dates

SDGs — Sustainable Development Goals

🌍 Goal 13 — Climate Action

Key Technologies

🤖 Conversational AI Chatbot

AI-powered multilingual chatbot enabling real-time information exchange between volunteers, command centres, and citizens during crisis events.

🗺️ Situational Awareness Dashboard

Open-source platform integrating real-time data from hazard monitoring systems, local authorities and citizen inputs, providing map layers, crowd-sourced information and volunteer tasking tools.

📋 Common Response Guidelines

Harmonised Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training modules tested through cross-country workshops and field exercises to improve interoperability of emergency crews.

Project Partners