During the project development, a number of activities are going to be carried out, including training, exercises,  the mission and dissemination activities.

Training
Training activities are going to be carried out for the three modules BSA, ASA and STC.

DPC provided training for the BSA teams through courses on international methodologies for usability and damage assessment of buildings, logistics, international emergency, IT tools for data collection and sharing, communication with media, safety and security.
Four courses of three days were organized respectively in the Marche region on December 12-14, 2010, in Umbria Region on January 25-27, 2011, in Sicily Region in March 23-25, 2010, and in Campania Region on November 9-11, 2011. The detailed program of the courses in Campania Region is available here.
The participants were selected from professionals of DPC, Italian Regions, universities of the ReLUIS Consortium and the Italian National Fire Brigade. A total of 100 professionals successfully completed the training.
The theoretical lessons were delivered the first two days and covered of international field forms for rapid post-earthquake building damage inspections and safety classification, among which:
•    AeDES (Italy)
•    STEP (STEP project, Italy)
•    ATC-20 - Rapid evaluation method (USA)
•    ATC-20 - Detailed evaluation method (USA)

Further international forms include those adopted by Cyprus, Slovenia, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Colombia and Japan. Moreover, training on risks associated with deployment to foreign countries, emergency and threat management was provided. In the last day an on-site exercise was organized to enable the teams to carry out building inspections and fully exploit the potentiality of the BSA IT equipment. The exercise also included simulations of unexpected emergencies that may be encountered by the teams in a foreign country.

For the ASA teams, advanced training on experimental test and procedures of damage assessment will be conducted.
The training course, including a small scale exercise of the ASA teams, has been organized in the Marche region on July 29th to August 02, 2010.
The training has been organised in multiple days. The first part of the course has been devoted basic and advanced usability assessment (post-earthquake higher level inspections), non-destructive experimental techniques and use of advanced instrumentation and equipment. Theoretical and practical lessons have been delivered in order to enable the users to fully exploit the potentiality of the ASA equipment. In the last part of the course illustrated techniques and procedures have been applied in field, on real case studies of earthquake damaged structures.
The last day reconnaissance and  lesson learned activities have been carried out in the city of L’Aquila, struck by the recent 2009 earthquake.
The course has been attended by 15 practitioners and 18 people from EUCENTRE. The detailed program is available here.
Further training activities will be carried out the next autumn.
Beside technical and technological training, three internal training days have been organized for the base camp organization.
A stress test (alert simulation) is foreseen within the next few months.

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Simulation exercise
The simulation exercise is going to be designed with the main objective of testing the capability and evaluating the potential enhancements in case of no deployment.
The full-scale simulation exercise for the European Rapid Response Capability will be based on a realistic scenario and with involvement of participants from other Member States, including a one-day evaluation with the Commission. The duration of the exercise will be of 3-days. The major scope of the exercise will be to test the effectiveness of the Standard Operating Procedures and to evaluate issues and possible improvements on the availability of the capacity for assisting affected Member States and/or worldwide areas.
If no deployment in real emergency will be requested by the MIC (the Monitoring Information Centre of the the Community Civil Protection Mechanism)  by the end of 2011, the exercise will be implemented by the end of march 2012.

Deployment
Starting from January 2011, the capability will be on standby for one eventual deployment in a real case emergency through the Community Civil Protection Mechanism, at the request of the MIC. The deployment will be an extremely fruitful occasion of testing the implementation of the capability and the efficiency of the activation and deployment procedures.
The task is the key-test of the new European rapid response capability on damage assessment. On site deployment is intended to respond immediately to the critical needs arising from major disasters. A maximum travel distance of 15 000 kilometres is considered.
The coordination of the teams for the damage assessment will be done by the module responsible, operating according to the MIC addresses and in cooperation with the local authority for the emergency management.
Practical solutions for deployment will be studied according to the deployment site. The BSA, ASA and the STC teams will reach the site by roads with Van, cars and equipment if this will be compatible with distance and time of deployment, otherwise they will reach the site by plane and will rent van and/or cars on site.
After the deployment, the EU teams will interact with the coordinator and, possibly, with the local authorities, in order to highlight possible deficiencies and/or criticalities in the response.

Dissemination
The task objective is to ensure the visibility of the project and the project results.
The audience will be both public and specifically technical. Dissemination will include raising public awareness, producing materials such as e-brochures, videos, organizing technical workshops and publishing technical materials.
The BUILDSAFE brochure is available here.

Proper media work communication about the project initiatives has been conducted, with the objective of getting the public closer to the framework of the European Mechanism for Civil Protection, with particular attention on the developed modules.
Advertising materials such as magnetic plates, banners, flags, stickers with the EU and Buildsafe logos and posters illustrating the project have been prepared and used during the training courses. The BSA and ASA training courses have been widely publicized on local newspapers and TV.
The project has been presented during the visits of Dr. Wahlstrom (UN secretary-general for Disaster Risk reduction) and Dr. Oborne (Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and the Global Science Forum).
The first information meeting with interested groups (engineers) has been organized on 14 december 2010 in Pavia, when the project has been presented and the forecoming activities have been illustrated.
A second information meeting with public groups (schools) has been organized on 18 may 2011 in Pavia, when the project has been presented to a group of students of primary school.
Short descriptions of the project and related news are available at the EUCENTRE and TREES LAB web portals (e.g., DRHOUSE starting date, 1st training course, practitioners’ Expression of Interest forms, etc.).
The interest of practitioners has been surveyed by means of web-forms. The interest has been larger than expected. This is a very important achievement since is a fruitful ground in order to develop the module on a voluntary basis within a few years. Moreover, it meant a large dissemination of the project among technicians.
Visibility of the BSA module has been achieved by means of advertising materials, leaflet and brochures, training courses, publications and press release. BSA training courses have been widely publicized through websites, local newspapers and TV
Material produced for project activities, training material, technical clothing, project website, meetings, posters, leaflets, press releases, bear both EU and Build-Safe logos.

For the technical dissemination, a workshop on lesson learned on the emergency management of structural assessment in case of great events will be organized, in order to foster networking and experience exchange among technical groups. A technical publication on Drshouse Project has been submitted to the XIV Italian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, (Anidis), which took place in Bari on 18-22 September 2011. Two articles on the STC module are available on VVF’s website (www.vigilfuoco.it). Technical papers on some of the ASA technical activities have been presented at the 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14 ECEE 2010), and at the 4th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2010).

Technical Publications
[1] M. Dolce, A. Goretti, A. Pavese, L. Ponticelli [2011], "Il Macromodulo Build-Safe del Progetto Europeo DrHouse", L’Ingegneria Sismica in Italia (ANIDIS 2011), 18-22 Sept., 2011, Bari (Italy).
[2] C. Casarotti, S. Peloso, A. Pavese, [2010], "The L’Aquila earthquake of April 6th 2009: seismic response of the hospital facilities", 4th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2010), paper #357, Cape Town, South Africa, 06 – 08 Sept 2010.
[3] C. Casarotti, S. Peloso, A. Pavese, [2010], "Seismic response of the hospital facilities during the 2009 Abruzzi earthquake", 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14 ECEE 2010), Paper #673, Ohrid, Macedonia, 30 Aug – 03 Sept 2010

International Advisory Panel
The objective is to create an European network of specialised scientific and technical experts tasked with providing expert knowledge to civil protection intervention teams.
The international advisory panel will be made up of expert in earthquake engineering and disaster response. Upon request, representatives from the Panel will take part in reconnaissance activities in case of deployment or to the final exercise evaluation. With the expert support it is expected to foster the link between scientific and technical measures to response needs, at to enhance the efficiency of solutions provided by the European Mechanism responding to earthquake related disasters.