a. Objectives

Synergise aims to advance emergency response team performance.

Effectiveness concerns the extent to which the mission goals are achieved, such as finding and evacuating victims, securing the environment (e.g. containment) and fire extinguishing, 

• Synergise technology objective: Provide the exploration, sensing and communication means to build and maintain the situation awareness and planning for rescuing victims and securing environments after an incident. E.g. Use Case Indoor Drone Exploration (Firefighters).

Efficiency concerns the degree to which the team uses resources (time, equipment, personnel, information) in a way that minimizes waste and maximizes timely outcomes.

• Synergise technology objective: Provide an overview of resource availability and utilization over time, for the current situation and planning,

Synergise aims to support the physical and mental integrity of the emergency responders so they can perform effectively during the missing and recover safely after.

Health concerns emergency responders' physical and mental well-being (so, also considering the effects of operations after the mission). It includes for example  work-related fatigue, physical and mental workload, and stress.  Ensuring recovery time and managing trauma are approaches to reduce long-term health risks.

• Synergise technology objective: Monitor the physical and mental state of emergency responders during extreme conditions to detect health risks at an early stage (exhaustion, heat stress, toxic exposure, emotional strain). E.g., Use Cases Health Sensors (for Firefighters and USAR).

Safety concerns emergency responders' immediate protection from harm or injury. It includes for example safety protocols, risk avoidance strategies, and the usage of protective equipment and clothing. Avoiding (a) building collapse, (b) exposure to toxic materials  and (c) threats of violence are approaches to reduce safety risks.

• Synergise technology objective: Provide overviews and warnings of environment conditions, ensuring that each team member maintains the situation awareness needed to avoid the hazards.

Synergise aims to support continuous learning during and after emergency missions, so that individuals, teams, and organizations can adapt effectively in real time and systematically improve future preparedness, coordination, and performance (advancing team resilience).

Lessons learned concern the extraction and documentation of insights and best practices for training, protocols and planning.

• Synergise technology objective: Refinement of standard operational procedures to utilize the new technology in a effective, efficient, healthy and safe way.

Patterns concern successful ways of collaboration, coordination and communication between responders (possibly mediated by technology) and between responders and "technological agents" (like robots). 

• Synergise technology objective: Build a pattern library of successful technology integration into emergency response operations for re-use.

Synergise aims at a responsible technology development and deployment.

Inclusiveness means that technology is accessible, usable and effective for all (candidate) emergency responders, e.g. regardless of gender, language or socio-cultural background.

• Synergise technology objective: Provide adaptive equipment that fits the diversity of the personnel (size, strength, technology literacy).  .

Privacy, transparency and explainability.mean that the recording, processing, sharing and usage of personal data is done in an ethical and legal way (minimize unnecessary data collection, safeguard sensitive information, and ensure that individuals' privacy rights are respected), and understandable for the staekholders. 

• Synergise technology objective: Protect individual privacy, maintain transparency in data practices and ensure that technology output is explainable.