Horizon Disaster Response: Search & Rescue Tech

Designing, testing and validating (TRL 7-8) tools, equipment and technologies that improve search-and-rescue and emergency medical response in hazardous disaster conditions — wildfires, earthquakes, and large-scale trauma events. In scope: autonomous drones and robotics, remote sensing, human sensor and smart protective equipment, and a command-and-control solution that coordinates the response across practitioners. The project has to validate the solution through field exercises or simulations in real disaster scenarios, run a stakeholder or market analysis with a roadmap for uptake by industry and the relevant authorities, and factor in the European Civil Protection Pool's capacity gaps and the rescEU strategic reserve so the solution adds to existing EU capacity rather than duplicating it.