Best Practices Handbook

Societal Impact Assessment is a multidisciplinary endeavor. It requires technical expertise in different fields and at the same time a good understanding of broader societal issues and non-technological effects of technologies and solutions. This deliverable presents a methodological approach to deal with societal aspects of projects in the context of protection of first responders. Principles and methods applied are provided and illustrated through examples that have been proven to produce useful results within the ASSISTANCE project and therefore deserve to be shared for assisting further similar actions. The reference examples focused on Societal Impact Assessment principles applied to three subjects: 1) the project, 2) the First Responders and 3) the EU citizens