iProcureSecurity – Strategic Partnership of Emergency Medical Service Practitioners for Coordination of Innovation Procurement
DURATION
05/2019 to 12/2020
PROGRAMME
H2020-SU-SEC-2018
SU-GM02-2018-2020
Coordination & Support Action
REFERENCE
833291
Project Background
Specific Challenge:
Innovative solutions are needed when resources from different countries are required to work more closely together. Such solutions should support the development of the EU’s Security Union.
iProcureSecurity responds to this challenge by seeking to identify the major issues the diversity of the emergency ecosystem poses to the capability of working together, stimulate R&I uptake with a focus on increasing standardisation of operations across Europe, while delivering technical requirements for R&I activities to prompt a more homogeneous European Emergency Medical Services System.
iProcureSecurity aims at creating a Pan-European Network of medical emergency teams together with medical associations, research and innovation providers, medicine-related media and other relevant stakeholders in order to identify and tackle capability gaps and innovation needs to foster greater involvement of stakeholders in innovation procurement. The Coordination and Support Action responding to the call H2020-GM02-2018 is planned as a preparatory action for a PCP action.
Specific Challenge:
Innovative solutions are needed when resources from different countries are required to work more closely together. Such solutions should support the development of the EU’s Security Union.
iProcureSecurity responds to this challenge by seeking to identify the major issues the diversity of the emergency ecosystem poses to the capability of working together, stimulate R&I uptake with a focus on increasing standardisation of operations across Europe, while delivering technical requirements for R&I activities to prompt a more homogeneous European Emergency Medical Services System.
iProcureSecurity aims at creating a Pan-European Network of medical emergency teams together with medical associations, research and innovation providers, medicine-related media and other relevant stakeholders in order to identify and tackle capability gaps and innovation needs to foster greater involvement of stakeholders in innovation procurement. The Coordination and Support Action responding to the call H2020-GM02-2018 is planned as a preparatory action for a PCP action.
Community of Practice
The iProcureSecurity project will assess the innovation needs and deliver a list of technical requirements for innovative technologies and capabilities that can act as ready-to-use tender documents for a PCP action. However, the aim of the project is to go beyond this mere purpose and establish a network of stakeholders that remain continuously engaged in knowledge exchange also after the end of the project via the Community of Practice.
The online community of practice (also known as virtual community of practice) will include active members in a specific area of interest for the project. The online space developed by iProcureSecurity will enable practitioners to create a cooperation mechanism that is long-standing and can enable continuous knowledge sharing in all aspects of their work.
Expected Impacts
Common requirements for innovative prototypes agreed among the practitioner organisations involved in the action.
Technical tender documents ready for use by subsequent pre-commercial procurement actions, as well as by non-participating procurement authorities.
Increased networking and collaboration in the field through the Community of Practice.
Improvement of the overall emergency response mechanisms in the EU.
Increased visibility, awareness, common understanding and uptake of innovative solutions.
Expected Impacts
Common requirements for innovative prototypes agreed among the practitioner organisations involved in the action.
Technical tender documents ready for use by subsequent pre-commercial procurement actions, as well as by non-participating procurement authorities.
Increased networking and collaboration in the field through the Community of Practice.
Improvement of the overall emergency response mechanisms in the EU.
Increased visibility, awareness, common understanding and uptake of innovative solutions.