The aim of the EU-MEDIN initiative is to foster co-ordination among the research and user communities for improved disaster preparedness and early warning, communication and rapid exchange of data and knowledge, in order to better mitigate and manage disasters. The initiative also aims to contribute to increased safety for the EU citizen and reduce the socio-economic impacts of disasters. It can achieve these goals by:

• promoting and disseminating European research (natural science and soft science) results to the RTD community
• promoting a strategy for future data standards, formats, methodologies and quality control
• coordinating and networking the activities of the European research community
• acting as a vehicle to stimulate new integrated and applied research and common frameworks for risk assessment
• acting as a central node for research results including methods, tools, case studies, datasets, recommendations
• exploring strategies to transform and disseminate research results (products, tools, methods and services) to different stakeholders (research community, operational users, public/beneficiaries)