Nartus

The FP6 SSA NARTUS project established a European platform and roadmap for future public safety communication, in order to facilitate European integration in the area of Public Safety with particular focus on public safety communications and information systems. Recent events in Europe and other parts of the world have demonstrated that effective response to emergencies, crises and disasters depends on timely available, reliable and intelligible information. Advanced information and communications technologies (ICT’s) offer an increasing number of valuable, however divergent, tools for emergency response, crisis management, and disaster preparedness and response. The speed with which ICT’s emerge, leads to different levels of implementation. Successful application of ICT’s by the increasing number of national and international stakeholders confronted with cross-border incidents, depends on better integration of frameworks for action.

The European Public Safety Communication Forum (PSCE Forum) was launched in July 2007 and held during the following three years several conferences, networking events and workshops in Europe. Most events were associated with the EU presidency (Finland, Slovenia, France, Czech Republic). 

During this launching process, the NARTUS project proposes a number of topics for discussion (established later as initiatives and working groups) and drafted proposals for the future technology roadmap based on a collection of generic user  requirements and operational scenarios.