DRIVER+

Launched in May 2014, DRIVER+ (Driving Implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, new marketing method, or new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations. ISO 37500:2014(en) Guidance on outsourcing, section 3.6: new or changed object (3.6.1) realizing or redistributing value.

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Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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Management for European

The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions.

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) was a project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, whose main aim is to cope with current and future challenges due to increasingly severe consequences of natural disasters and terrorist threats, by the development and uptake of innovative solutions that are addressing the operational needs of practitioners dealing with

Holistic management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organization and provides a framework for building resilience, with the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of the organization’s key interested parties, reputation, brand and value­creating activities, as well as effectively restoring operational capabilities.
Note 1 to entry: Crisis management also involves the management of preparedness, mitigation response, and continuity or recovery in the event of an incident, as well as management of the overall programme through training, rehearsals and reviews to ensure the preparedness, response and continuity plans stay current and up-to-date.

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The project started from the experience that neither successful R&D, nor strong end-user demand, always lead to

Implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, new marketing method, or new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations. ISO 37500:2014(en) Guidance on outsourcing, section 3.6: new or changed object (3.6.1) realizing or redistributing value.

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in the Holistic management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organization and provides a framework for building resilience, with the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of the organization’s key interested parties, reputation, brand and value­creating activities, as well as effectively restoring operational capabilities. Note 1 to entry: Crisis management also involves the management of preparedness, mitigation response, and continuity or recovery in the event of an incident, as well as management of the overall programme through training, rehearsals and reviews to ensure the preparedness, response and continuity plans stay current and up-to-date.

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domain. This is a problem since as societies become more complex, increasing scope and unpredictability of potential crises and faster dynamics of major incidents put increasingly stringent demands on Crisis Management. Consequently, the project addressed the question of improving our understanding for the needs of the Crisis Management stakeholders, discovering the innovative solutions and testing (trialing) the innovation potential of these solutions with respect to the previously defined needs. 

Visible results of this work include the Gaps Explorer, Portfolio of CM solutions, Trial Guidance Methodology and Trial Guidance Tool, as well as the Crisis Management Network Europe (CMINE). 

© DRIVER+ DRIVER+ project has received funding from the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement (GA) N° #607798