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Helsinki is taking part in a European Union (EU)-funded project to help cities and other stakeholders prepare to use drones for medical emergencies. The AiRMOUR project is funded by the EU to help enable the use of air mobility for emergency medical services in European cities. The project began in January 2021 and will run until December 2023, receiving about €6m over three years from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The aim of the project is to find out what actions need to be taken in the near future by different stakeholders to enable drone technology on a large scale. Stakeholders include urban communities, operators, regulators, academia and businesses. The project is led by the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and involves 12 other partners, including Forum Virium Helsinki. The project focuses exclusively on emergency medical services and includes electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) machines to fly healthcare professionals to emergency sites, as well as smaller drones to ...