EDEN project aimed to improve the prevention, preparedness, response and recovery to a CBRNe event (Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive), developing the resilience capacity of the EU society. Within the project there are three platforms: End-User Platform, Supplier and SME Platform, to match the needs expressed by the end-users with the products and services from Industries and Small and Medium Enterprises.

EDEN have also tended to EU-coordination and communication at the national and European level, improving security system integration, interconnectivity and interoperability in countering the CBRNe threat between EU member states and their response agencies. EDEN project uses the Toolbox of Toolboxes (ToT) approach and checked and improved throughout the EDEN demonstrations.

When the project started several workshops were conducted in order to collect needs and gaps related to CBRNe events, furthermore information from previous and on-going projects were gather, these led to a list of several hundreds of needs. Needs and gaps were prioritized and matched with tools developed within the project and from suppliers and SMEs, then demonstrations serve to understand if the tools cover the gaps.