ARCSAR · Arctic and North Atlantic Security and Emergency Preparedness Network

The ARCSAR project will establish international best practice and propose innovation platforms for the professional securityand emergency response institutions in the Arctic and the North-Atlantic. The focus is on increased interaction in targetednetworks between the professional institutions, academia and the innovators in the preparedness service and equipment industry. The ARCSAR project will monitor research and innovation projects and recommend the uptake and the industrialization ofresults, express common requirements as regards innovations that could fill in capability and other gaps and improve theirperformance in the future, and indicate priorities as regards common capabilities, or interfaces among capabilities, requiringmore standardization. The project will look into the need for enhanced measures to respond to composite challengesincluding surveillance of and mobilization in case of threat situations, and emergency response capability related to searchand rescue (SAR), environmental protection, fire fighting, and actions against terror or other forms of destructive action.