The Project

RESILOC - Resilient Europe and Societies by Innovating Local Communities
RESILOC aims at studying and implementing a holistic framework of studies, methods and software instruments that combines the physical with the less tangible aspects associated with human behavior.

The overall goal of RESILOC is to identify new strategies for improving on the processes of preparedness of local communities against any kind of hazards, either planned or unplanned. The project aims at bringing together the validity and experience of local communities and the strategies and commitment of national and supra-national actors to achieve a tangible impact on the way resilience is understood and increased in local communities. Therefore a holistic framework of studies, methods and software instruments will be developed, that combines the physical with the less tangible aspects associated with human behavior that applies at the community scale.

RESILOC Framework

1-STUDY

  • Collection and analysis of literature and stories from the many approaches to resilience adopted across Europe and all over the World
  • Definition of a classification for the functions that are critical to resilience of communities, extending the realm currently adopted for measuring resilience in cities (…) including human aspects, such as risk perception and awareness
  • Definition of terms, indexes and correlations between indexes

2 - METHODS AND STRATEGIES

  • Assessment of the resilience indexes of a community, together with simulations on the “what-if” certain measures are taken
  • Identification of new and better approaches to (e.g.) communicate with citizens, reduce the vulnerability of infrastructures, launch awareness campaigns on risks and adopt technological solutions to improve the understanding and the monitoring of critical infrastructures
  • Local Resilience Teams

3 - SOFTWARE INSTRUMENTS

  • the RESILOC inventory, a comprehensive, live, structure for collecting, classifying and using information on cities and local communities, implemented as a Software as a Service (SaaS). It will be a live tool for stakeholders willing to study and improve on resilience;
  • the RESILOC Cloud-based platform for assessing and calculating the resilience indicators of any participating city or community, for developing localised strategies and verify their impacts on the resilience of the community. The Cloud platform, a combination of SaaS and PaaS, includes the RESILOC inventory as its main repository
The objectives:
  • Increase the understanding of resilience in societies and local communities
  • Innovate on the strategies for improving resilience
  • Innovate on tools and solutions for improving on resilience in communities
  • Communicate, demonstrate and assess the validity of approaches, solutions and tools in field trials
  • Have an impact and define concrete steps towards a more resilient society
Expected Impacts:
  • RESEARCH: Increase the understanding of resilience as applied to communities
  • INNOVATION: Empower all actors to identify and assess the validity of actions to increase resilience in their communities
  • SOCIETAL: Bring resilience at the forefront of the political agenda, by demonstrating the validity and the potential of the approach
  • POLITICAL: RESILOC legacy for further activities
RESILOC target groups:
  • Civil protection agencies and emergency management services (first responders)
  • Local resilience teams and volunteers
  • Citizens of the field-trial locations
  • Decision makers on community, security and safety
  • United Nations and world-scale players in humanitarian help
  • Academia and research centers
  • Industries
The Cloud-Based Platform
Risk

Here there will be a high-level text in which we explain that there are little to no risks associated with RESILOC research activities, nevertheless, here is a list with identified risks and inconveniences for specific activities 
Name of the research activity 1 (here there will be a pop up for each research activity. We will provide the text). 
Name of the research activity 2 
Name of the research activity 3 
Name of the research activity n 

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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