HARMONIA will leverage existing tools, services and novel technologies to deliver an integrated resilience assessment platform working on top of GEOSS, seeing the current lack of a dedicated process of understanding and quantifying Climate Change (CC) effects on urban areas using Satellite and auxiliary data available on GEOSS, DIAS, urban TEP, GEP etc. platforms. HARMONIA will focus on a solution for climate applications supporting adaptation and mitigation measures of the Paris Agreement. HARMONIA will test modern Remote Sensing tools and 3D-4D monitoring, Machine Learning/Deep Learning techniques and develop a modular scalable data-driven multi-layer urban areas observation information knowledge base, using Satellite data time series, spatial information and auxiliary data, in-situ observing systems, which will integrate detailed information on local level of neighborhoods/building blocks. HARMONIA focuses on two pillars: a) Natural and manmade hazards intensified by CC: urban flooding, soil degradation and geo-hazards (landslides, earthquake, ground deformation) and b) Manmade hazards: heat islands, urban heat fluxes, Air Quality, Gas emissions. Sustainable reconstruction of urban areas and the health of humans and ecosystems, are top priorities. HARMONIA will take into account the local ecosystems of European urban areas, following an integrated and sustainable approach by incorporating the active communities’ participation initiative, which will involve the use of a social platform. Paying extra attention to Sustainable Urban Development, one of the Societal Benefit Areas posits that use of EO is a crucial tool towards resilient cities and the assessment of urban footprints, to promote equity, welfare and shared prosperity for all, feed new indicators for the monitoring of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in an EU context.

Considering response operations and relevant tasks in an urban fire or wildfire, performance of first and second responders is dramatically affected due to the low-, or even zero-, visibility conditions. ForeSight will design, develop, integrate, deploy, test, evaluate and demonstrate a set of bespoke re-sponse tools and services, at the service of civil protection agencies (fire brigades, civil protection organisations and emergency medical), which ensures a catalytic upgrade when managing urban fire or wildfire. These tools and services: a) effectively allow FRs to see unobtrusively through fire, smoke, fog and dust; b) boost situational awareness, tactical reconnaissance and last-kilometre logistics related not only to heavy equipment and emergency relief items delivery but also comprehending the entire route from start point of resources to entering and navigating to the “hot” zone; c) enhance decision and sense making of individual responders and teams from the onsite to the closure of an incident. Notably, the tools and services delivered by ForeSight shall be evaluated against a rich tech-nology inventory created within the project that extensively analyses existing technologies supporting first and second responders in their immediate response to natural disasters, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, the ForeSight technologies follow by design privacy, ethical, security and legal constraints to expedite their inclusion in response tasks and their abidance to standard operational procedures. Finally, a rich Integration, Testing and Vali-dation Activities Programme is followed– of Round Tables (RTs), Technical Integration Workshop (TIWS), Com-ponent Field Tests (CFTs) and System Field Tests (SFTs) – towards empowering collaborative response and han-dling of complex incidents to its fullest whilst facilitating implementation of most promising user-centred technologies in real-world conditions.

Europe’s industry and economy depend on a secure access to many commodities. In 2020, the EC updated its list of critical non-energy non-agricultural raw materials (CRMs), based on scarcity of supply and importance to EU industry. Today, the list includes: Antimony, Fluorspar, Magnesium, Silicon Metal, Baryte, Gallium, Natural Graphite, Tantalum, Bauxite, Germanium, Natural Rubber, Titanium, Beryllium, Hafnium, Niobium, Vanadium, Bismuth, HREEs, PGMs, Tungsten, Borates, Indium, Phosphate rock, Strontium, Cobalt, Lithium, Phosphorus, Coking Coal, LREEs, Scandium. Securing sustainable access to CRM, is of high importance for the EU economy. However, the EU is confronted with a number of technological and environmental challenges along the entire production value chain of primary and secondary raw materials. NetHelix demonstrates in real life settings a toolbox of new technologies for automating and streamlining the extraction process, taking advantage of deposits through mining and waste deposits processing methods, maximising efficiency, reducing waste production, and increasing environmental and huma health and safety.