ACIL AFET AMBULANS HEKIMLERI DERNEGI

Their core work

ACIL AFET AMBULANS HEKIMLERI DERNEGI (Emergency Disaster Ambulance Physician Association) is a Turkish professional association of emergency medicine physicians focused on disaster response and pre-hospital emergency care. They bring frontline medical expertise into EU security research projects, contributing real-world clinical knowledge on triage, situational awareness for first responders, and emergency medical service operations. Their work bridges the gap between technology developers and the actual practitioners who use emergency response tools in the field, making them a valuable end-user partner for testing and validating new solutions.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest project (NEXES, 2015) focused broadly on next-generation emergency services, establishing their role as an end-user voice in EU security research. From 2019 onward, their focus sharpened considerably toward two tracks: innovation procurement for emergency services (iProcureSecurity projects) and advanced situational awareness tools with AI and AR integration (ASSISTANCE, TeamAware). The progression shows a clear shift from general emergency service modernization toward technology-specific applications — particularly AI-driven field monitoring and structured public procurement of emergency tech.

Moving toward AI, augmented reality, and smart monitoring tools for emergency medical teams — expect continued interest in technology validation and procurement innovation for first responders.

How they like to work

Exclusively a participant — they have never coordinated an H2020 project, which is consistent with their role as a professional association providing end-user expertise rather than leading technical development. With 74 unique consortium partners across 18 countries, they operate in large, diverse consortia typical of EU security research. Their value to consortia lies in representing the practitioner perspective: real ambulance physicians who can validate whether a proposed tool actually works in the field.

Broad European network spanning 74 partners across 18 countries, built through five security-focused projects. Their connections are spread across technology developers, research institutions, and other first responder organizations, giving them a wide reach within the EU civil security research community.

What sets them apart

As a professional association of emergency physicians based in Turkey, they offer something rare in EU security consortia: direct access to practicing ambulance doctors who deal with real emergencies daily. This makes them an authentic end-user partner, not a lab simulation of one. For consortium builders, they fill the critical "practitioner validation" role that reviewers increasingly demand in security proposals.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ASSISTANCE
  Their largest funded project (EUR 300,044), focused on tailored training and situational awareness tools for first responders — directly aligned with their core medical expertise.
• iProcureSecurity PCP
  A Pre-Commercial Procurement project (EUR 148,500) for triage management systems — rare PCP funding scheme showing their involvement in actual procurement of emergency innovations, not just research.
• TeamAware
  Most recent and forward-looking project combining AI and augmented reality for first responder monitoring — signals their direction toward smart emergency response technologies.