No-Fear Project

20/06/2025

Are you a first responder, policy expert, researcher, or crisis / disaster manager working in the CBRNe space? 🚒💼🔬

You are welcome to Join us for a high-impact, hands-on workshop on the CBRNe Knowledge Hub!

🗓️ Date: Friday, 27 June 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM CET

This is your opportunity to dive into the CBRNe Knowledge Hub — a cutting-edge digital platform built to empower civil protection across Europe.

🔎 What’s in store?
✅ Real-time demo of the CBRNe Knowledge Hub
✅ Explore its powerful decision-support tools
✅ Engage with its unique social community feature
✅ Learn how integrated data boosts preparedness & rapid response
✅ Network with EU experts, policymakers, and practitioners

This interactive online session is part of the EU-funded PEERS Project, which focuses on building resilience and standardising responses to CBRNe threats across borders.

🔗 Zoom Access:
https://lnkd.in/d2QDsA8n
🌍 Let’s transform how we respond to the unexpected — together.

🔗 www.peers-project.eu

PEERS is a Horizon Europe project aiming to deliver change in CBRN-E through a practitioner-driven ecosystem focused on pre-normative/standardisation processes and supporting tools.

14/02/2025

🌍🚀 Harnessing AI for Disaster Resilience! 🚀🌍
Collaborating with brilliant minds is always inspiring, and working alongside Scott Fowler on the Crisis Analytics: ML for Natural Disasters SPACE in Disastropedia is a fantastic experience! 🔥
Scott Fowler's expertise and dedication to leveraging machine learning for disaster management have been instrumental in shaping insightful content highlighting AI's power in crisis response. From early warning systems to real-time social media analysis and resource optimization, his contributions are helping build a knowledge hub that empowers citizens and communities.
A huge thank you to Scott Fowler for his invaluable contributions and commitment to making Disastropedia a leading platform for disaster preparedness and resilience. 🙌 Looking forward to more innovation and impact in this space!
🚀 Be informed. Be ready. Have a B-Plan.
Join us in creating a safer, more prepared world today at Disastropedia at https://disastropedia.com/

11/11/2024

PEERS series of MoM events are up and running!

The 2nd and 3rd unique hands-on Meeting of Minds (MoM) workshops will be held on the 20th November and on the 9th December 2024 respectively, showcasing innovative aspects, including how to use the All-in-one Knowledge Dashboard of the interactive PEERS ecosystem platform and separately, the PEERS Virtual Reality technology.

Launched on November 1st, 2022, PEERS ( www.peers-project.eu ) aims to advance and reinforce the European Union’s operational safety and security policies through the development of a practitioner-driven ecosystem in the remit of the pre-normative / standardisation space with supporting tools, produced through co-creation. Our focus is on CBRN-E. In this manner at beta stage, an enabling all-in-one integrated knowledge hub ecosystem platform has been produced through the co-creation process.

Drivers of the ecosystem are our European CBRN-E practitioners, policymaking as well as other stakeholders, which include the research community and national standardisation bodies. Each MoM event should be of interest to the respective experts, which will be virtually hosted by the University of Galway (UoG) and both will commence at 10:15 am CET, running for 1.15 hours.

The outline agenda for the Knowledge Dashboard MoM event is attached.

Registration for both the 2nd and 3rd MoM event is available here ..

https://lnkd.in/eN-fwkst


www.tfcengage.com

29/10/2024

Post-NO-FEAR:

Building on from work undertaken in NO-FEAR, much solid interest is shown in the all-in-one integrated knowledge hub ecosystem in the PEERS project ( www.peers-project.eu ) that our NO-FEAR partner, TFC Research & Innovation Limited worked on with the University of Galway (http://universityofgalway.ie).

Drivers are practitioners, as well as and bodies.

Enabler is the All-in-one integrated knowledge hub ecosystem.

You can join the community here .. https://tinyurl.com/peers-request

PEERS is a Horizon Europe project aiming to deliver change in CBRN-E through a practitioner-driven ecosystem focused on pre-normative/standardisation processes and supporting tools.

21/10/2024

One of the projects that is advancing the work in NO-FEAR is the Horizon Europe PEERS project.

Launched on November 1st, 2022, PEERS ( www.peers-project.eu ) aims to advance and reinforce the European Union’s operational safety and security policies through the development of a practitioner-driven ecosystem in the remit of the pre-normative / standardisation space with supporting tools, produced through co-creation. In this manner at beta stage, an enabling all-in-one integrated Knowledge Hub ecosystem has been produced. The drivers of the ecosystem are our European CBRN-E practitioners, policymaking as well as other stakeholders, which include the research community and standardisation bodies.

It is possible to get involved through the PEERS Co-Creation Group. Join us here .. https://lnkd.in/eAMbeHJE , if you have not already e-registered.

Once registered, members will be given access to the PEERS Knowledge Hub and in the process help in the aim to support the transformational change of the European CBRN-E environment. As part of our undertaking, ‘Making PEERS work with you’ Meeting of Minds (MoM) virtual series has been established for participant interaction and enjoyment.

It is now my pleasure to invite you to the initial hybrid workshop!

Held on the 25th Oct 2024, the focus is on the social networking pillar of the PEERS Knowledge Hub. Hosted by the University of Galway (Ireland), the dedicated workshop will commence at 10:15 am CET and will run for 1.15 hours.

Dr. Lukasz Porwol (UoG), will demonstrate some of the key components of the social network pillar, but not only that, a hands-on approach with the participants will be firmly integrated into the MoM workshop proceedings. This approach enables valued experience to be obtained on the use and application of the Knowledge Hub. Know-how transfer on how to create an Avatar, to join or set up your own group and how to interact with other members of the PEERS Co-Creation Group will also be explained to the active Hub participants.

Participating members of the PEERS Co-Creation Group will also be given access to the early beta PEERS Knowledge Hub in advance. For this to happen, it is imperative to register your participation for the MoM workshop at the following link .. .. https://lnkd.in/eN-fwkst .

It is also important that you are a member of the Group in order to be granted access to the beta ecosystem Knowledge Hub .. https://lnkd.in/eAMbeHJE .

Furthermore, 2 other hands-on MoM workshops will be held (i.e., on the 20th Nov. 24 and 9th Dec. 2024), to showcase more innovative aspects of the Knowledge Hub. This includes the PEERS Knowledge Dashboard and the Virtual Reality technology (attached).

I hope you can join our MoM workshops!

Feel free to forward the details to colleagues who may be interested in joining the PEERS Co-Creation Group and our workshops.

Tom Flynn.
PEERS Co-Creation Group Leader.
www.tfcengage.com

21/05/2024

Read about the B-prepared Horizon Europe project, which was published in Emergency Live!

Building disaster preparedness solutions for citizens and the undertaking includes the development of Better Practice Guides.

Read more at
https://lnkd.in/evaswfiY

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www.b-prepared-project.com
www.tfcengage.com

17/02/2024

Check out the latest PEERS project article on their Co-Creation Group, which aims to provide a means for a one-stop access for Europe's , research , national standardisation bodies and the community for the delivery of a transformational change in the CBRN-E arena through .

Interested? Goto

👉 https://lnkd.in/eca-guCj

-creation guide ,

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

03/01/2024

Much good work will be ongoing in 2024 in the Horizon Europe B-prepared project with our colleagues and it includes the development of Better Practice Guides, which originated in the No-Fear Project by partner, TFC Research & Innovation Limited.

Link up with us in B-prepared at ..

1. https://lnkd.in/eYChvaBT
2. https://lnkd.in/e2uQsJBM
3. https://lnkd.in/eX2nVpWQ
4. https://lnkd.in/eXvAGkqa
5. https://lnkd.in/eaNg9wwD
6. https://lnkd.in/eb-nGcHc
7. https://lnkd.in/eRFKnbTJ

The project is aimed at delivering a cost-effective solution to help build a citizen-centric culture for disaster preparedness and response applying in the process a multi-actor approach to help demonstrate the innovative fresh-thinking is this ever important space.

B-PREPARED will build on a freely accessible sizeable collaborative knowledge base and data hub to demonstrate its usefulness through three demonstrator applications i.e., a cooperative multiplayer virtual reality serious game, a simulated real disaster scenario for the safest near-real experience and separately, an interactive gamified mobile app with age-appropriate content and enhanced accessibility to people with specific functional needs for the widest possible reach.

The project also applies a Learning Management System (LMS) to effectively and comparably measure the preparedness levels achieved by individual users (via virtual reality or mobile) on a unified scale.

Through the application of B-PREPARED, players can take different roles to solve puzzle tasks in an immersive experience. Teamplay, collaboration and communication are key, strengthening too, the culture of mutual assistance and cooperation in danger. A large-scale virtual reality hackathon series will also be applied to demonstrate B-PREPARED features.

B-PREPARED commenced in October 2023 and runs for 36-months. It brings together a pan-European consortium (see picture attached), collectively representing a multi-disciplinary team of experts, who will collaborative to fullfil project citize-centric needs and expectations.

The project is led by Szataki (Hungary) and including NO-No-Fear Project, partner TFC Research and Innovation Limited (Ireland), the project also involves both YellowMap and University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany) as well as Szekely Family (Hungary) amongst others.

Work with us!

www.tfcengage.com,
TFC Research & Innovation Limited

13/12/2023

TFC Research & Innovation Limited () was a partner in the European research NO-FEAR project, in charge of standardisation.

The method that we applied in the determination of the needs and gaps was to assess the recommendations resulting from a series of webinars that were held in the project, which centred primarily on situations affecting Emergency Medical Services, such as mass casualties. These webinars were held regularly during COVID. Once the analysis was conducted, we contacted CEN TC391 directly and involved convenyors at our meetings.

The outcome of our analysis was further assessed by CEN TC391 and the conclusion was drawn that there was a need to advance effort in the area of standards that addresses 'Security Management Guidelines for Use of PPE within Healthcare Facilities'. Following, CEN/CENELEC standardisation protocol, CEN TC391 WG1 convenyor is driving the development of the new standard with TFC Research & Innovation Limited in support.

Note that the Call for experts to assist with the drating of the standard will be issued in Q1, 2024.

Much more community engagement will also be activiated in 2024 through the PEERS Co-creation Group. You are welcome to join the growing community via https://tinyurl.com/peers-request . This would be of interest to , professionals, particularly involved in , and preparedness and space.

www.tfcengage.com
www.peers-project.eu

PEERS is a Horizon Europe project aiming to deliver change in CBRN-E through a practitioner-driven ecosystem focused on pre-normative/standardisation processes and supporting tools.

20/11/2023

Registration for the NSAI - National Standards Authority of Ireland & (12th December, 2023) on enhancing and capabilities through is open at:

https://bit.ly/3uclRfC!

12/09/2023

Following on from the work undertaken by TFC Research and Innovation Limited, Ireland, in the area of Better Practice Guides and Standardisation in the No-Fear Project, David Crouch (TFC) will be presenting at the upcoming PEERS project event on the 29th September 2023.

Know about David's CBRN-E expertise here.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7107283893715615744

David will join the roundtable discussion with and present PEERS benefits and relevance for bodies, and .

Read more about the event and register here by 25 September ✏ https://bit.ly/3Rdn3sr .



TFC Research & Innovation Limited

Welcome to the alpha version of the PEERS ecosystem! On the 29th September 2023, PracticE Ecosystem for StandaRdS (PEERS) team will host a development event, separately targeted at policy makers, practitioners and standardisation bodies. Titled ‘Look, Learn, Engage and Co-Create’, this online ev...

02/08/2023

Fragmentation and Standards:

Pressing issues on particularly for the sector and some of the possible solutions is addressed in a blog at http://ow.ly/mCGu50OtoRU.

Fragmentation and the real imposing cost to the community has never been fully understood and perhaps, not properly considered. We have to be extra careful. Effective checks need to put in place, because our witness of woodland fires, floods and destruction may in the future be deemed as the 'norm' by the layman. Better Practice Guides and standards can help the situation.

Fragmentation in standards and the so-called pre-nominative standards, which also are not factual, can have a real damaging impact to first responder situations.

Collectively, first responders and those involved in emergency medical services can be helped through the Better Practice Guides and Standardisation. They are one way to better support them in a crisis management situation. The blog raised some of the ongoing issues, but the challenges remain.

partner, , is active in the area of standardisation. They were pleased to address some of the issues surrounding fragmentation at a recent internal Europol event as well as in conferences involving related European projects. Much follow up work is also ongoing in this area through the peers-project-eu. is forging ahead in this area to help bring about change for the better, given the right support.

Additionally, details on a Call for Experts is due to be announced with regards to the development of the safety and security management of PPEs. This emerged from the project, which recently concluded.

The blog on has also been issued on twitter via https://lnkd.in/echyVv48

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn