HASS Profile
- Capital of the province of Limburg, Belgium
- Local authority
- Population: +/- 80.000
- Size: 102,24 km²
- Responsible for the city’s emergency planning and crisis / disaster management
- The mayor’s advisor and therefor prepare, implement and evaluate the city’s policy on this topic, together with local, regional and national crisis professionals (police, medical services, firefighters, military services,…)
- Responsible for the management and coordination of the COVID19 pandemic in the city of Hasselt, including the establishment and organization of an intermunicipal vaccination centre (for +/- 125k citizens)
HASS role in ONELAB
We are contributing in the following WPs and Tasks for the ONELAB project:
- WP2 – Dissemination, Communication, Exploitation
- Citizen scientist – misinformation and trust
- Worldwide pandemic community testing forum
- Policy, legal and ethical aspects of pandemic responses mass community testing
- WP5 – Integration testing and demonstration
- Worldwide exercise – Stage 2 “Pre-emptive”
- WP6 – Future Concepts
- Development of pandemic testing response playbook
- Assessment and capability framework
- Capacity building and maintenance
- End-user syllabus and professional development materials
Team Members
Kelly Feytens
Project Manager (SPOC)
