Presentation of foreign projects and IT developments aimed at managing extraordinary events Part I

The FSX Magnitude Cross-Border Exercise (October 24-27, 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Abstract

With this series of articles, I would like to present the management of extraordinary damage events abroad and the applications that support interventions developed there. I had the opportunity to get acquainted with the first such program at the end of 2024 during the MAGNITUDE exercise in Germany from the perspective of the organizers, the interveners and those involved in international assistance. The exercise was a complex project funded under the 2023 budget of the European Union. The Knowledge for Action in Prevention and Prededness (KAPP) call coordinated by the German Ministry of the Interior was implemented in the state of Baden-Württemberg with the following consortium partners for the digitalization of the interior sector and local government goals:

- Federal Ministry of the Interior BMI (Austria),

- Resilience Solutions International (Austria),

- Hochschule Furtwangen University (Germany),

- Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany),

- General Secretariat for Civil Protection (Greece),

 Switzerland as an associated partner through the Federal Civil Protection Office, and France and Germany participated in the implementation at federal level with the involvement of local authorities, rescue forces and voluntary aid organizations.