| Περιγραφή Προγράμματος: | Recent natural disasters in Europe (e.g. earthquake in Kefallinia Island in Greece, severe and extended floods in Italy, France, Great Britain, and Germany) stressed the importance of the design and operation of efficient and effective relief distribution networks, and revealed the limitations in preparedness policy, in terms of disaster logistics operations, at local and regional level.
Reviews from related projects, (both in the EU Civil Protection as well as in other interregional programs) having policy implementation character, reveal an opportunity for improving significantly relief logistics operations by addressing the following key issues:
•Identification of main emergency logistic problems (e.g. pre-positioning of emergency supplies) from civil protection authorities point of view.
•Creation of an e-library of best practices, lessons learnt and strategic/tactic actions for emergency logistics processes.
•Development of a toolbox that will support decision making in terms of preparedness logistics operations.
To this end, the proposed project aims at addressing emergency logistics problems in order to provide an integrated, easily applicable methodological framework for optimizing logistics preparedness operations. The main project objectives are analyzed as follows:
-Categorization of main emergency logistic problems from civil protection authorities point of view
-Creation of an e-library (data repository) of best practices and lessons learnt in emergency logistics
-Modelling of emergency logistics problems and development of efficient methods to solve them
-Design and development of a toolbox that will improve preparedness levels against natural emergencies
-Theoretical and practical training of users and decision makers
-Communication Plan and activities for diffusing emergency logistics importance to stakeholders
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