Goals:

• Design and development of an intelligent system to support first responders, practitioners, hospitals and pandemic crisis managers with decision making in the prediction and management of pandemics
• Formulation of guidelines for risk communication and optimal procedures for co-operation between different organizations
• Execution of twelve regional (DRIVER+/STADEM) trials to assess the impact of the developed tools
• See project website for more information: www.stamina-project.eu

C3M's Role: 

• Adaptation and application of the DRIVER+ Trial Guidance Methodology Methodological support
• For more information: tgm.ercis.org/ 

Goals:

• Conceptualization of an integrated information system for data-driven decision support for South African Blood Supply Chain Management
• Development of a decision support system covering the inter-organizational donor management, distribution of blood products as well as logistics management
• Crisis management and contingency plans, including best practices for business continuity and crisis communication strategies 
• See project website for more information: www.biskit.info

C3M's Role: 

• Extension and application of the simulation environment HumLogSUITE to evaluate promising planning and forecasting methods in the context of various crisis scenarios
• Application of the TOGAF framework for the Enterprise Architecture of the South-African Blood Supply Chain

BISKIT's Partners

Goals:

• Development of a test-bed to evaluate epidemic- and pandemic intervention strategies for deeper understanding of infection dynamics
  • Zoonotic pathogens in humans (i.e. influenza & corona viruses)
  • Unidirectional transmission from animal hosts to humans (i.e. hanta viruses)
  • Bi-directional transmission (i.e. malaria virus)
• Web-based & code-free modeling environment: Collaboration tool for medical experts, information system experts and policy makers
• Reusable and extensible modular software architecture
• Visual analytics to investigate epidemic scenarios

C3M's Role: 

• Design, application and evaluation of simulation and collaboration tools
• Intermediary for practitioners and software developers
• Solution provider (EpiPredict Tool) 

EpiPredict's + CoPredict's Partners

Goals:

• Development of a Pan-European Test-bed for Crisis Management Innovations
  • Physical & virtual components
  • Trial Guidance Methodology (TGM) and Sustainability (CMINE)
• Development of a tested and validated portfolio of crisis management tools
  • Solutions for civil resilience and professional response
  • Methods and infrastructure for individual and organizational learning
  • Organizational, policy & legal tools & standards
  • Societal aspects/tools 
• Creating a shared understanding of crisis management in Europe

C3M's Role: 

• Design, application and evaluation of the TGM
• Practitioner-centered solution review process
• Solution provider (HumLogSUITE, GDACSmobile)

DRIVER+'s Partners

Goals:

• Conceptualization of an agent-based simulation system customized for Germany 
• Consideration of innovative approaches and interdisciplinary expertise (epidemiology, infection control, sociology, demographics, health hconomics, machine learning, mathematics)
• Integration of existing data sets (e.g. COVIMOD, POLYMOD or NET CHECK GPS cellular data)

C3M's Role: 

• Development of a German epidemic micro-simulation System
  • Requirements analysis 
  • Conceptualization of the reference model 
  • Framework and model development
  • Model implementation, application and evaluation

OptimAgent's Partners

Goals:

• Design, development and evaluation of evidence-based frameworks to support the selection and use of the most suitable digital technology for delivering CBA to refugees
  • Priorization of DigCBA technologies in refugee crises
  • Feasibility and readiness knowledge
  • Shared understanding among practitioners

C3M's Role: 

• Application of the TOGAF framework for the Enterprise Architecture of typical DigCBA scenarios
• Case study based as-is analysis and development of to-be scenarios for DigCBA approaches in refugee crisis context
• Development of transition plan(s) 

DigCBA's Partners

Goals:

• Development of a general framework to predict epidemic effects (including in particular pandemic situations) on hospital burden at different levels of care including economic implications on supply chains and human resources
  • Consideration of short- and long-term scenarios at different geographical levels
  • Possibility to simulate different counter-strategies (such as NPI)

C3M's Role: 

• Sub-project “Epidemic Hospital Resource Demand – Modeling Incidence, Bed-occupancy, Staffing and Supply Chains”
• Development of a simulation-based hospital decision support system for optimal resource management and allocation

PROGNOSIS's Partners

Goals:

• NITIM: Graduate School on Networks, Information, Technology & Innovation Management 
• 2 Post Docs and 12 PhD students work in the area of Crisis Management Networks within the EU‘s Marie Curie Program
• Focus at ERCIS: dynamics and organization of humanitarian logistics

C3M's Role: 

• Supervised NITIMesr PhD projects at C3M
  • Governance models for disaster relief operations under the perspective of SCM
  • Design and development of a disaster relief SCM system