Duration: 01 May 2013 – 30 April 2016
Staff Involved: Prof ME Haran; Dr M McCord; Dr PT Davis; Prof WS McGreal; Dr L Galway; Prof AJ Moore
The COBACORE project which is focused on improving collaboration between stakeholders and more effectively harnessing the resources and skills of affected communities in the event of a disaster has entered the final year of its commission. The data framework and platform developed by BERI staff in collaboration with the Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) and Ulster University spin-out company SPATIALEST was tested and evaluated as part of a three-day 'live-exercise' which took place in Weimar Germany on the 26-28th October 2015. Organized by the International Red-Cross and Red Crescent Society in collaboration with the German and Dutch Red Cross the event involved the 'game-simulation' of a real life disaster event with more than 250 volunteer responders and community participants using the COBACORE concept in order to improve resilience and enhance the effectiveness and co-ordination of recovery and reconstruction efforts.