City of Catania

RESILOC Community 

CATANIA 

PROFILE | COMMUNICATION | PREPAREDNESS
Partner Information: 

The region of Catania is located on the east coast facing the Ionian Sea; it is the second largest city of Sicily after Palermo. The Municipality of Catania is the capital of the homonymous Metropolitan City, one of the ten biggest cities in Italy and is inhabited in by 311,584 people, with 1.1 mio. people living in the city of Catania.  

The central infrastructure to be protected is clustered in three different groups: 

  • Critical infrastructures such as transport network (local roads, streets, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, heliports, and harbours), the electricity network, power plants and transformation stations; the water network; the waste delivery platforms; the oil pipeline, gas and liquid fuel transport networks; the water purification plants.  
  • Critical assets defined by the governance of Catania include cultural heritage sites, such as churches, monasteries, mosques, archives, libraries, artistic heritage, but also include such as buildings of the regional government and local authorities, emergency control centres, hospitals, sanitary facilities, first-aid operations centre, and sewage treatment plants.  
  • Sensitive buildings are schools and other cultural establishment, stadiums and other sports facilities, socio-health facilities (hospices, orphanages), public and private offices, factories, and storage of hazardous products 

The main economic activities (e.g. trade, retail, etc) cover an area of 19.41 sqkm within the city, which uses a railway network of 130km and 16.3 km metro line as the main railway system. The environment of Catania (181 sqkm) consists of woodland areas as well as green areas with the Simeta river running through the municipality.  

Hazard Situation 

The two main reasons, why this community needs an analysis and improvement of the resilience are the risks of earthquakes and floodings, which occured several times in the past history. While earthquakes happend four times during the last 50 years, the risk is seen as rather low. When looking at the risk of floodings, it is almost certain, and the events are predictable to a certain extend.

Resilience Stakeholders 

The main actors involved in the management of local emergencies are among others the Regional Civil Protection of Sicily; Municipal Civil Protection of Catania (led by the Mayor of Catania, also in charge of leading the whole Metropolitan area of Catania); Response Units from various emergency organisations (e.g. Fire Brigades).  

The Mayor of Catania is the main local Civil Protection authority in charge of ensuring the security and safety of citizens. In case of specific emergencies, coordination and operational activities are carried out through a multi-level hierarchical organisation. It consists of Municipal Operational Centres (C.O.C.) at Municipal level, Mixed Operational Centres (C.O.M.) and Rescue Coordination Centres (C.C.S.) at Provincial level, Regional Operations Centres at Regional level, and Command and Control Direction (DI.COMA.C.) at National level.  

The trial successfully ended in October 2022

Associated Risks - RA1

Catania- Workshops on Dimensions, Indicators and Proxies

There are no foreseen physical, mental or reputational risks related to participation in this workshop.

Your participation will be treated in confidence. RESILOC may use quotes from the Q&A in publications but these will be anonymised and any personal information that could be used to identify you will be removed.

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Associated Risks - RA2

Catania – Validation Workshops

There are no foreseen physical, mental or reputational risks related to participation in this workshop.

Your participation will be treated in confidence. RESILOC may use quotes from the Q&A in publications but these will be anonymised and any personal information that could be used to identify you will be removed.

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RA 1 - Selection of participants

Catania- Workshops on Dimensions, Indicators and Proxies

Participation in the Catania Workshop on Dimensions, Indicators and Proxies is voluntary but restricted to members of the Community of Catania assigned to the RESILOC Project.

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RA 2 - Selection of participants

Catania – Validation Workshops

Participation in the Catania Validation Workshop is voluntary but restricted to members of the Community of Catania assigned to the RESILOC Project.

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RA 2 - General

Catania – Validation Workshops

The goal of the research activity is to collect and evaluate the results of the three workshops of phase one. This will be carried out through a questionnaire (Validation tool 1.1) that is organised in two parts (10 questions in total).

The first section evaluates the relevance/applicability of DIP (dimensions, indicators and  proxies) in the context of Catania.

The second section collects feedback on the role of scenarios as a tool for testing the validity of the DIP system and collects information on the clarity and understanding of the data gathering process. You are asked to receive and complete the questionnaire submitted by the Local Training Lead, returning it back by email before and no later than Monday 07/02/2022.

The RESILOC research team will use the answers you provide to further refine the development of the resilience tool that aims to improve the resilience of local communities.

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RA1 - Overview Catania

Catania - Workshops on Dimensions, Indicators and Proxies

The workshop will be a mixed meeting, with both in-person and remote participants, and led by the Local Training Lead. The Local Training Lead will introduce the participants to the theoretical framework developed.

This activity will be performed via a PowerPoint presentation that aims to explain the scientific/research framework of RESILOC, introducing the DIP database and the logic behind it. During the presentation, the Local Training Lead will explore participants’ views, in particular on the approach of using dimensions, indicators and proxies to capture the resilience of a community; this will be done through dedicated Q&A sessions during specific moments of the workshop.

The purpose is to make the representatives of the Municipality and the LRT members able to evaluate the applicability of the framework in terms of relevance, feasibility, data availability, among others for the community of Catania.

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RA1 - Privacy, confidentiality and personal data handling

Catania- Workshops on Dimensions, Indicators and Proxies

For this particular research activity, we collect the following personal data in order to have a better understanding of your opinion and perspective.:

  • name
  • organisation
  • community name
  • email
  • phone number (optional)

We would also like to make a video recording of the workshop (optional), which will only be used to aid us to improve the analysis of the answers you provide.

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RA 2 - Privacy, confidentiality and personal data handling

Catania – Validation Workshops

For this particular research activity, we collect the following personal data in order to have a better understanding of your opinion and perspective:

  • name
  • organisation
  • community name
  • email
  • phone number (optional)

We would also like to make a video recording of the workshop (optional), which will only be used to aid us to improve the analysis of the answers you provide.

The data collected will be stored on the IES server, protected by data security protocols, for a maximum of 2 years (up to one year after the end of the project).

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