Project Structure - PathoCERT

PathoCERT Project Structure

Work Packages

WP1: Project Management

This WP is responsible for the contractual and financial obligations of the project and its deliverables, as well as partner communication and day-to-day management of the project, including risk management, performance management and quality management.

Leader: University of Cyprus (UCY)

WP2: Dissemination, Communication and Innovation Management

WP2 manages and implements all dissemination and communication actions for the entire range of activities of the project. Moreover, it implements the open access and open research data strategy, as well as innovation management.

Leader: Water Europe (WE)

WP3: Requirement Analysis, Engagement of Professionals through Communities of Practice & Social Engagement

This WP focuses on collecting the stakeholder requirements through their engagement in Communities of Practice, as well as researching the impact of contamination events to the society, including gender issues and technology acceptance.

Leader: Collaborating Centre On Sustainable Consumption And Production (CSCP)

WP4: In-situ rapid water pathogen detection toolkit

It is devoted to researching, developing and testing novel sensing technologies for in-situ faster detection (from minutes to around 1 hour) of various pathogen types, using portable and wearable sensors. In addition, new procedures, guidelines and tools will be created to support FR during water quality sampling.

Leader: Cetaqua (CET)

WP5: Contamination Situation Awareness

WP5 involves research for methods and technologies supporting situation awareness during pathogen contamination situations. This includes control methodologies for autonomous multidrone water quality sampling in surface water (PathoDRONE); satellite imaging data processing methodologies to identify pathogen spread in surface water (PathoSAT); and methodologies for social media text and photo analysis in social media content, to estimate the extent of pathogen contamination spread within urban environments, while excluding fake reports (PathoTWEET).

Leader: Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) – Information Technologies Institute (ITI), M4D group

WP6: Operational Platform for Water Quality Monitoring and Decision Support

This WP involves research activities for the ICT services and interfaces. This includes: the architecture design, the creation of waterborne pathogen contamination emergency response ontology; research and design of smart interfaces and UI designs to effectively communicate the information to the FR, e.g., through AR or tactile interfaces (PathoVIEW); research and testing of a novel interface and procedures for Incident Management Systems (PathoIMS); iv) research on real-time streaming sensor data processing and big-data analytics; and finally, v) research on the overall platform design, development and testing (PathoWARE).

Leader: Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica (ENG)

WP7: Toolkit for joint epidemiological and criminal threat and risk assessment/investigation

WP7 is devoted to research on methodologies to enhance decision-making capabilities of the FR. This includes algorithms, which relate to contamination modelling and forecasting, threat assessment (PathoTHREAT), as well as criminal risk investigation (PathoINVEST).

Leader: KWR Water (KWR)

WP8: Implementation and Pilot Studies

This WP is devoted to the pilot testing and field-validation and demonstration of PathoCERT in emergency response training events, in Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, Spain and the Netherlands. Research will be conducted to analyse the results and determine the effectiveness of the solutions and produce guidelines and suggestions.