HELP-EU: EUROPEAN HELP UNIT

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  EUROPEAN HELP UNIT

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Natural and human-mediated disasters are often unpredictable, with a fast onset and small margin for a successful intervention. Populations that suffer a disaster generally need external support to reduce the negative impact of the events.

PROBLEM Having a slow, inaccurate and/or uncoordinated emergency response generates massive impact on economic downturn, human costs and disruption of daily lives.

COVID situation has evidenced the European Union´s lack of unity and coordination in times of disasters and emergencies. As a result, 100,000 EU citizens have died, over €300M have been spent as direct costs, with an expected reduction on GDP of around 6% and a complete disruption of daily lives, possibly for years.

SOLUTION We must #FIGHTOGETHER. The European Union needs a joint Emergency Help Unit to offer security, healthcare, resources and logistics and deployed within 24 hours to any member state.

HELP-EU proposes A FAST, UNITED and PROTOCOLIZED response supported by a software to coordinate logistics and predict the impact of different interventions. A powerful tool to suggest the optimal number of health base camps to be deployed per territory or the best limitation measures for each specific area in order to have the highest benefit-cost ratio.

IMPACT An initial cost-benefit analysis shows the high potential ROI of the European Help Unit based on multiple studies conducted around benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of different Disaster risk reduction measures. In most cases, Preparedness strategies showed high consistent BCR.

These response units can save between 2 and 50 days in fast responses, with an average of 7 days. Saving 7 days in EU-COVID-19 would have meant saving 50,000 deaths, €200M in direct costs and 20 days of complete disruption. There is potential indirect impact (recognition).

TRACTION During the 48 hours of Hackathon, our amazing team of 5 experienced and award-winning entrepreneurs has built the initial logistics plan, economic analysis and COVID use case; developed the first prototype of the algorithms and secured support from: Politicians, member states and institutions.

FUTURE STEPS We have built the plan for a full feasibility study to make HELP-EU a reality, requiring €50,000 and 12 months to complete the overall conceptualization of the future European Help Unit. In order to succeed, we need support from government bodies, humanitarian institutions and the EIC to foster the project. HELP US…. to HELP- The EUROPEAN UNION

Built With

• ai
• change.org
• european-citizens-initiative
• european-parliamentaries
• logistics
• protocols