The MANIFESTS project (MANaging risks and Impacts From Evaporating and gaseous Substances To population Safety) ended on April 2023.
June 15th 2023
Accidental release of volatile Hazard Noxious Substances (HNS) at sea can lead to the formation of toxic, flammable or even explosive gas clouds potentially hazardous for nearby population and the environment.
The objective of MANIFESTS is to address the lack in response guidance on dealing with such airborne releases, seeking to improve response capacities of marine pollution responders through the development of innovative decision support tools, operational guidelines, and access to relevant knowledge.
The completed project outputs are available on manifests-project.eu:
- A video about risks due to spills of volatile substance
- An update of the HNS-MS database about properties of chemicals in marine waters
- A knowledge tool: inventory of HNS preparedness and response resources generated in the frame of research projects
- An operational field guide: “Protecting Communities from Maritime Incidents Involving Airborne Pollutants”
- An exercise tool, making it possible to create a programme and formulate an exercise
- A Common Operating Picture tool
- A serious game that teaches the fundamentals needed to understand the fate of a chemical at sea in the event of an accidental spill
- Reports on tasks carried out during the project.
MANIFESTS-Genius, a followup to the original projecct, has been submitted in the latest DG-ECHO call for projects