NIGHTINGALE Final Event showcases AI Innovations for First Responders
8 January 2025
Press Release
- The EU-funded NIGHTINGALE project concludes with an online event.
- 23 partner organisations from 11 countries joined forces to deliver a novel, AI-based toolkit for first responders.
- The Final Event will feature insights from the partner organisations and showcase how the toolkit will improve current procedures and methodologies for mass casualty incidents.
The EU-funded NIGHTINGALE project will conclude in January 2025, following the successful development of an AI toolkit for first responders and full-scale exercises. To mark this achievement, NIGHTINGALE will hold its Final Event on Thursday, 16th January 2025, 9.30am CET.
The online event will share NIGHTINGALE’s achievements, insights and the future potential of the project’s collaborative efforts. This event will also bring together other leading projects on disaster resilient technologies for first responders including TEAMUP, DIREKTION, OVERWATCH, CARMA and SYNERGISE, as well as guest speakers from the Crisis Management Innovation Network Europe (CMINE) and the Department for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME).
NIGHTINGALE’s coordination team, the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), will discuss the NIGHTINGALE Toolkit, how this toolkit impacts the emergency medical domain, and how continuous monitoring of patients triggers a step-change in Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) handling.
NIGHTINGALE project partners Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação (INOV), ASTRIAL GmbH, and NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT will also present. These organisations will examine how AI and predictive analyses can improve MCIs, multi-agency as a solution to limited resources and managing chaos, and how users can effectively interpret massive monitoring and analytics data.
The event will likewise feature NIGHTINGALE’s toolkit video results and insights from NIGHTINGALE First Responders from CRIMEDIM UPO – Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid and Global Health.
Spyros Athanasiadis, member of the coordination team of NIGHTINGALE, from ICCS said of the upcoming event:
“At the end of its 3.5-year journey, the NIGHTINGALE project team are proud to showcase the integrated, AI-based toolkit we developed, tested and validated, to optimise current procedures and operational capabilities of emergency medical services and civil protection agencies responding in mass casualty incidents.”
The NIGHTINGALE Final Event is open to the public and attendees can register here: Webinar Registration – Zoom
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For more information about the NIGHTINGALE project, or to arrange an interview with a NIGHTINGALE representative, contact Dr Sean Travers, Carr Communications, at stravers@carrcommunications.ie
Notes to the Editor
More about the NIGHTINGALE Project
The NIGHTINGALE project is developing a novel integrated toolkit for emergency medical response, in order to optimise the current procedures and operational capabilities of emergency medical services and civil protection agencies in mass casualty incidents. This toolkit has been designed for emergency medical services and non-medical civil protection agencies, including fire brigades, police, search and rescue personnel, volunteers, and citizens.
The toolkit has undergone extensive testing and validation by first responders. This includes practical training exercises, laboratory testing, and small- and full-scale field tests in realistic mass casualty incident scenarios.
Contact information of the NIGHTINGALE Project Coordinator
Dr Angelos Amditis | Research and Development Director | Institute of Communication and Computer Systems | a.amditis@iccs.gr
For more information about the project, visit the NIGHTINGALE website and follow NIGHTINGALE on LinkedIn and X.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101021957.
