Peers-Project-Eu

PEERS aims to advance and reinforce the European Union’s operational safety and security policies through a co-creation development of a practitioner-driven ecosystem focused on pre-normative / standardisation processes and supporting tools. The PEERS ecosystem supports the effective strengthening of preparedness and response in the field of CBRN-E through the practitioner-driven Better Practice Guide initiative, gamification and e-Learning support. It primarily targets assisting Europe's CBRN-E practitioners, European research policymaking as well as other stakeholders including the research community and national standardisation bodies. A comprehensive engagement and consultation governance mechanism will be applied for the realisation of the ecosystem. Additionally, the ecosystem includes an integration capability to existing community-building platforms and a gamification strategy, aimed at encouraging solid user engagement, strengthening interactions activities, and furthering user training skills based on situational awareness. PEERS brings together an experienced, multi-disciplinary team of specialists, to work together as a focused delivery team on meeting policymaker and practitioner expectations over the course of the project and deliver transformational change in the CBRN-E environment. PEERS has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No. PEERS is a 36-month project, which commenced in November, 2022.