COLLARIS Network: COLLaborative network on unmanned AeRIal Systems will be a part of the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network. COLLARIS is a capacity-building initiative to develop a sustainable European network of scientific, engineering and end-user’s expertise related to unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in civil protection and disaster response. COLLARIS will cover the following thematic focus areas:

• identification and sharing of operational procedures, lessons learnt and best practices using UAS,
• elaboration of air traffic management challenges, solutions and operational practices,
• acquisition of solutions for data analysis and data sharing, as well as auxiliary support systems (e.g. simulators),
• development of methods of increasing end-users’ competences,
• foresighting of new developments and future use case scenarios to identify tomorrow’s needs and gaps, technological capabilities and their potential applications.