PREPARE

PREPARE is an acronym for the European Union's Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics.^[1] The coordinator is professor Herman Goossens of the University of Antwerp.^[2] It was activated on 31 December 2019 in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and as of February 2020^[update] was operating in outbreak response mode 2 (mobilisation), the second of three modes.^[3]

The PREPARE project was funded by EU Horizon funding^[4][5]. While active, it hosted three simulation exercises^[5]. PREPARE was followed by another COVID-19-specific project, called RECOVER^[6].