Objective

The THREATS project aims to increase the resilience of EU hospitals as critical infrastructure by improving their protection capability and security awareness against terrorist attacks.

Its aims are:

• To develop a reliable method for assessing the risks and vulnerabilities of major EU health infrastructures to terrorist attacks;


• To prepare specific security and threat assessment models and tools applicable to the Health sector using other EU projects;


• To challenge these tools through application to the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan;


• To disseminate guidelines designed to optimize the preparedness of hospitals’ healthcare infrastructures against terrorist attacks.

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Tasks

• Build on the work carried out by previous and running EU projects under the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection to prepare specific security and threat assessment models and tools applicable to the Health sector


• Develop a reliable method for assessing the vulnerability of major EU health infrastructures


• Challenge the developed models and risk-assessment tools through a case study applied to a major EU hospital infrastructure


• Empower the EU Member States with broad reach and efficient capacity assessment tools to measure critical healthcare infrastructures’ vulnerability to terrorist attacks


• Disseminate to security authorities and operators at EU level, guidelines designed to harmonise and optimize the preparedness of hospitals’ healthcare infrastructures against terrorist attacks

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Cofund

This project is cofunded by the prevention, preparedness and consequence management of terrorism and other security-related risk programme of the European Union