## 1 Introduction
RESPOND-A has defined a set of pilots, which will take place in different geographical locations, i.e., Cyprus, Greece, and Spain, to validate and evaluate its developed accommodations in real-world scenarios. In this work, one of the pilot scenarios that will take place in response to an earthquake disaster scenario is presented. The pilot highlights the slicing arrangement utilized for this scenario. The emergency platform includes a wide range of accommodations for First Responder operations, including the setup of a portable communications platform predicated on 5G. RESPOND-A additionally anticipates being able to contribute to the following domains:  
* European economy, investment, and productivity: Europe seems to hold up when it comes to information intelligence initiatives and technologies for First Responders. RESPOND-A aims to step forward and reinforce European competitiveness in the field by assessing and highlighting a variety of cutting-edge technologies and applications, which go far beyond relevant attempts and are spread over the provision of more mission critical services which, besides public safety and situational awareness, will include early assessment, safety assessment, and risk mitigation at all stages of the crisis lifecycle. * Business, industry and market opportunities: The RESPOND-A equipment tools will be agile, autonomous, and easy-to-use, bringing up new dimensions in developing mission-critical communications infrastructure and AR/VR empowered applications, thereby raising new potentials for business opportunities, including new players (i.e., SMEs/start-ups and academia) for sustaining and evolving highly innovative and contemporary solutions in the form of software modules, new platforms, communication tools, and algorithms. Furthermore, by investigating and implementing 5G-network infrastructure-sharing using a contemporary combination of network resource slicing, multi-access edge computing, and network virtualization into holistic portable system design, all of our academics and research are anticipated to be in a good position to transform the research outputs into market products, and expand their presence in the growing 5G and IoT Industry, where they can secure a competitive edge in their respective markets. * Academic and industrial research and innovation: The relationship between wireless communications, network architecture and virtualization, medical science, and advanced mathematical analysis will be investigated, which is likely to open new research directions to a wide spectrum of researchers in European and international universities and research institutions. The immediate beneficiaries are researchers working in next-generation IoT and 5G wireless communications, who are increasingly demanding new insights in autonomous vehicle coordination, eMBB/URLLC network slicing, and network resource optimization aspects. * The wider society and national health systems: RESPOND-A can have a lasting impact on public health prevention and the national health system finance of European countries by minimizing the number of fatalities and injuries of citizens and Responders, before, during, and after disasters. In addition, it will increase the level of confidence of First Responder organizations towards more effective and safer responses, and contribute addressing key societal concerns, by convincing EU citizens that, in severe disasters, which occur more frequently nowadays due to dense industrial activities and/or climate change, are not as unsafe and insecure as in previous eras. Additionally, RESPOND-A goes beyond the SoTA in 5G emergency communications. The First Responders will initially be focused on 4G, but they will have it in mind to benefit from 5G when and where available. Critical communications have been originally designed for 4G, but some evolutions will be required to fully benefit from 5G capabilities (e.g., slicing).