The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) presented the work of the RESILOC semantic framework at the 4th Scientific Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (HDRRF) in Greece. It exposed the concept of bringing conclusive vulnerability assessments to the community level by using semantic analysis to the both scientists and Read more…
Katja Banovec Juroš, Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief of the Republic of Slovenia Katja Banovec Juroš has worked at the Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (ACCRA) since 1996. With a B.Sc. in Informatics, she began to work on the development of Geographic Information System for Civil Read more…
The Horizon 2020 programme priorities reflected on prime societal challenges faced by the global community. Securing itself against, and being prepared for, disasters is one of the central elements of the functioning of any society. There are hardly any societal functions which are not to some extent exposed to natural Read more…
A few days ago, on the 13th of October, we all celebrated the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction acknowledging the importance of protecting lives, livelihoods and health and eliminating disaster risks – targets which are fully aligned with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 adopted at the Read more…
The Sustainable Development Goals resemble a moral obligation for all countries alike as a globalized world can and will only develop as one. This describes a threat and an opportunity at the same time. To proactively support the positive of the two choices the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ was Read more…
There is little doubt that the world is moving into a new paradigm of global governance. A significant driver of this circumstance must be attributed to the scientific insights on climate change and the growing impact to the various levels of human settlements that is expected. With the establishment of Read more…
The programme marked the end of a 6 year drive to create a standardised approach to the trialling and testing of innovative products into the Crisis Management area. RESILOC participated in the project’s final conference to pro-actively integrate the key outputs into it’s work & further expand connection points for Read more…
RESILOC H2020 and RESBA – INTERREG ALCOTRA projects joined forces to promote tools and actions to build more resilient communities in a joint awareness raising seminar for local authorities held in Turin on the 5th and 6th February 2020. ISIG – Istituto di Sociologia Internazionale di Gorizia and the Civil Read more…
Karsten Uhing represented the RESILOC consortium at a meeting with the Research Executive Agency in Brussels on Jan 31st2020, which provided a welcome opportunity to develop links between EU policy makers and other related H2020 projects. This was the first of a series of events designed to foster an open, Read more…
Measuring resilience in communities is by no means a straight forward exercise. Despite having well constituted institutional risk frameworks covering the majority of disasters, affected communities are often faced with their own peculiar set of risks and challenges. This includes the way human responses to an emergency can disrupt, or Read more…