Trial as a pragmatic and systematic approach for assessing new solutions in crisis management and rescue operations

The crisis management faces the problem of increasing number and severity of natural and man-made disasters. Consequently there is a need to constantly increase available capabilities built upon new technologies and innovative approaches. Currently the crisis management community has no methodology nor environment allowing for systematic assessing of innovative solutions in realistic but non-operational contexts. The DRIVER+ project aims at overcoming these weaknesses in Europe. The idea of trialling, in which the term “Trial” is used in the meaning “an event for systematically assessing solutions for current and emerging needs in such a way that practitioners can do this following
a pragmatic and systematic approach”, is the final project result deriving from other project outcomes and using in practice other project outputs. The objective of this paper is to present the Trials, which were held in 2018 in Poland and France according to the methodology designed within the DRIVER+.