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Manifesto

The main objective of EUDEM2 is the broad dissemination through the Web of gathered information related to Humanitarian Demining Technologies, Products, Services and Practices. The collected information has been analysed and structured before publication on this site

Details

The EUDEM project produced a publicly accessible and on-line updateable data base containing information provided by various actors (about 120 entries) in the field of humanitarian demining, and a final report on state-of-the-art technology and its maturity for application in humanitarian demining. The focus was on the EU but also an overview of the main funded US research projects was included. Currently 50 interviews with key players in the field of humanitarian demining (HD) have been typed out and revised by the interviewees themselves - their analysis will serve for discussion in workshops within. For the presentation of EUDEM2: EUDEM2 General Slideshow and EUDEM2 Detailed Slideshow

The EUDEM2 projects intends to:

  1. update the results of EUDEM;

  2. improve their exploitation and extend their usefulness by keeping them up to date and making them more complete;

  3. intensify the EUDEM activities as follows:

  •  Broad scope technology survey on new technology having potentially interesting capabilities for HD;

  • Further identification of institutes, universities and companies that are offering interested pieces of technology that have not yet been brought into relation with HD;

  • Organisation of an information desk service to individuals and organizations with as a priority the support to ongoing EC funded projects and EU R&D policy makers;

  • Restructuring the EUDEM data base according to themes and working groups;

  • Organisation of 3 specialised workshops;

  • Technology expert fora including end users, for the assessment of the real impediments to bringing new technologies closer to HD tests, and for the identification of the real advantages/limitations of future deployment in the field;

  • Linking of the EUDEM website and database with the ARIS website and other information repositories, worldwide;

  • Timely and sustained dissemination of verified information on technology and evolving insights;

  • Continuation of the strategy of active information collection, by interviews, questionnaires, and request for database input, etc…

About

 

Contact Point: Hichem Sahli
E-mail: hsahli@etro.vub.ac.be
Adress: VUB-ETRO, Pleinlaan, 2 B-1050, Brussels Belgium
Starting Date: December 1st, 2001
Duration: 36 months
Total budget: 547.076 Euro
EC Contribution: 348.210 Euro
OFES-CH: 198.866 Euro

EUDEM2 aims at supporting the EU-RTD&D consortia and policy makers, and the humanitarian demining community by providing targeted information. 

EUDEM2 will make a number of contacts with core actors within Humanitarian Demining whereby actors are contacted directly either by face-to-face interviews, or through web based questionnaires, or via personalized demands for inputs to the knowledge base and for participation to workshops.

EUDEM2 will:

  1. Structure, analyse and disseminate information on technology, R&D, mine action procedures;

  2. Update existing EUDEM results on technology maturity and extend, and restructure the existing EUDEM web data base;

  3. Conduct a broad scope technology survey;

  4. Pro-actively identify eventual transferable technologies from other applications towards humanitarian demining;

  5. Create, if an interest occurs expert internet for a on real bottlenecks, potentialities and amount of work needed for the transfer of new technologies;

  6. Identify actors with promising technologies;

  7. Distribute information towards working groups on a common theme in R&D or a specific demining activity;

  8. Collaborate actively for information exchange with international or supranational organizations like JRC, ARIS, GICHD, EU-DGs, JMU, UN....

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Short presentation of the project

Team

The EUDEM2 project will be carried out by three closely collaborating university departments, EPFL (LAP), TUG (MEED) and VUB (ETRO), as this formula was already successfully applied during the previous EUDEM project and current bilateral projects between the mentioned universities.

  • The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will assure in particular most of the project management tasks (organization of travel and meetings, and the workshops), the administrative follow-up of the project, the maintenance and set-up of the new and elaborated database, the organization of the workshops which will be held in Brussels, and most contacts with the Commission’s services. The VUB with their expertise in Humanitarian Demining Technologies and Practices, will be responsible for the major technical aspects of the proposal and in particular the planned "Technology Survey".

    Address: Room 5K321, Pleinlaan 2
    Postal Code: B-1050
    City: Brussels
    Country: Belgium
    Contact Person: Karin De Bruyn (Research Coordinator ETRO )
    Telephone: +32 2 629 29 30
    Fax: +32 2 629 28 83
    Web Site: http://www.etro.vub.ac.be

  • The Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) will assure in particular the interface to EPFL knowledge and know-how accumulated since the beginning of the humanitarian demining related activities, and will be responsible for most of the support tasks (e.g. help desk).

    Address: EPFL-I&C-LAP, Batiment IN-F
    Postal Code: CH-1015
    City: Lausanne
    Country: Switzerland
    Contact Person: Claudio Bruschini
    Telephone: +41 (0)21 69 33911
    Fax: +41 (0)21 69 35263
    Web Site: http://diwww.epfl.ch/lami/detec/

  • The Technical University of Gdansk (TUG) with their expertise in theoretical and technological aspects in Inverse Problems (Impedance tomography and IR thermography), applicable to medicine and ecology, will assure in depth study of these aspects towards Humanitarian Demining. Moreover with their expertise in physical principles, they will contribute to the analysis of existing mature technologies in Remote Sensing, Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation, which could be transferred to HD.

    Address: Technical University of Gdansk, Narutowicza 11/12
    Postal Code: 80-952
    City: Gdańsk
    Country: Poland
    Contact Person: Jerzy Wtorek
    Telephone: +48 58 347 13 84
    Fax: +48 58 347 17 57
    Web Site: http://www-med.eti.pg.gda.pl/

All other project tasks are in common, with some of them being assigned during the project to one partner or the other according to the best use of resources available at given times.

Advisory Panel

The Advisory Panel will guide and monitor the implementation of EUDEM2. It aims at complementing the input of the consortium, and consists of representatives from the end-user community, research institutes, industry, military and technology domains with two rotating seats for experts that will be chosen according to the subject dealt with during the technology survey.

Activities:

  • Conduct regular discussions with the consortium on the project progress;

  • Intervene during the workshops;

  • Provide advice on the preparation of the deliverables.

  • Guide and monitor the implementation of EUDEM2

Members: