IN-PREP recognises and addresses three challenges in the context of transboundary crises:
• Member states need to develop shared response planning.
• Countries need to share information in real time.
• Countries need to coordinate the use of critical resources to ensure a timely response and to avoid waste and misspending.
To accomplishing above principal challenges, IN-PREP establishes and demonstrates a next generation programme by enabling:
• a reference implementation framework of coordination operations (Handbook of Operations), and
• a novel multi-disciplinary training platform (Mixed Reality Preparedness Platform) at the service of the entirety of civil protection stakeholders (firefighting units, medical emergency services, police forces, civil protection units, control command centers, assessment experts).
The proposed framework does not only improve preparedness, response planning and scenario building, but is also applied during joint interventions, thus improving the joint capacity to respond.