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The pre-operational emergency service of GMES is currently provided through the FP7 project SAFER which addresses the following domains:
- Civil protection
- Humanitarian aid
- Security crises
SAFER addresses potentially all types of disasters or crises: natural disasters (floods, fires, landslides, storms, earthquakes, etc.), technological accidents, humanitarian crises (for instance after a severe drought period), civilian-military crises.
In the domain of emergency management, numerous projects paving the way towards a pre-operational GMES service have been funded by European institutions over the last years. These include projects such as Respond, RISK-EOS, PREVIEW, ORCHESTRA, OSIRIS, ...