First Tabletop exercise of the GUARDIANS project
A major milestone is coming for the GUARDIANS project — the first Tabletop Exercise (TTX1) organised from March 30th to 31st!
What happens when a major nuclear or radiological emergency strikes? Who does what, when, and how? These are the questions that will drive TTX1, the first structured exercise of GUARDIANS.
Hosted in Estonia at EASS premises and co-organised by ASNR, TTX1 will bring together the full GUARDIANS consortium alongside a remarkable group of practitioners, members of the GUARDIANS external Scientific and Innovation Advisory Board and project’s End-User Group, from across Europe and beyond:
- Nuclear safety and regulatory authorities — national and international
- Frontline emergency responders and civil protection units
- Medical experts and crisis medicine specialists
- Training institutions and emergency management schools
- Humanitarian organizations and international bodies
- Military CBRN units and defence evaluation bodies
Working through realistic scenarios — radioactive source terms, atmospheric dispersion, real meteorological conditions — participants will map the full chain of actions during a major RN incident, identify critical bottlenecks, and surface the gaps that GUARDIANS technologies, robotics and decision-support tools will need to fill.
The outputs will feed directly into our Gap Analysis Report and shape the development of sensors, drones, decontamination protocols and the GUARDNET crisis management platform over the next 3½ years.
This is exactly what user-driven research looks like: before we build, we listen.
TTX2 will follow in approximately one year, with a web-based exercise connecting all stakeholders in between.
Stay tuned for more!
