The HARMONY project (Harmonised Protocols for Transnational Environmental Impact Assessment & Emergency Management) is an EU-funded research project that works to build stronger, more resilient communities, by combining social collaboration, advanced technologies and scalable impact strategies to develop harmonised response protocols across borders.
Its core vision is to create a unified framework that transcends the current siloed approaches, enabling an integrated and coordinated assessment of impacts, risks and interactions of climate-related and geological hazards.
Over the next 3 years, the consortium will:
- Co-design harmonised protocols for preparedness in case of extreme events and the environmental impact assessment focusing on multi-national collaboration
- Develop a common framework providing access to heterogeneous data sources and allow trusted data exchange among disaster management stakeholders
- Create a strategic level tool for the assessment of vulnerabilities and asset characterisation as well as for the calculation of vulnerabilities exposure
- Develop digital tools for the tactical and operational level analysis of different natural hazards
- test and validate the proposed solutions in three large-scale transnational pilots (Spain-Portugal, Albania-North Macedonia and Greece-Bulgaria)
- Synchronise with the Earth Observation Community and create a capacity building programme to support the uptake and replication of the HARMONY solutions
The project also focuses on sharing knowledge and strengthening skills across the disaster risk management community. By sharing experiences and lessons learned, HARMONY will help build a stronger, more resilient European response network.
HARMONY brings together the multi-disciplinary experience and expertise of 16 partners from 9 countries across Europe.
The project began in September 2025 and ends in 2028.
Call for Proposal: HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01
This project has received funding from the European Research Executive Agency (Project ID: 101225967)
HARMONY is a Horizon Innovation Actions project supported by the European Commission under grant agreement No 101225967. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.