Disaster Risk

📢 "Last 26 April 2022, the CORE EU-funded project organised its first webinar “Resilience of the society: a global perspective” that was all a success.

🌐 Almost 70 persons registered from 28 countries all over the world, representing a wide range of stakeholders (Universities & Research centres, Governmental agencies including ministries, European & International organisations including UNICEF, NGOs & Associations, European institutions including the Joint Research Centre (European Commission), and companies) and various domains (Disaster risk reduction, Climate change, Crisis management, Youth, Inclusion, Volunteering, etc.)."

📚 The Press Release, recording and all the presentations (PDF) are available here.

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🗣 “CORE has the ambition to answer one of the EU Key Strategic Orientations: creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society.” - CORE Coordinator Paolo Capuano (Università degli Studi di Salerno).

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The LINKS Consortium (http://links-project.eu/) is conducting an Europe-wide survey on the current use and potentials of social media and crowdsourcing in the field of civil security. The survey is aimed at a wide range of authorities and organisations (like public authorities, fire brigades, civil protection organisations and NGOs) that are already actively using or interested in using social media and crowdsourcing in disasters. 

The answers will provide a significant impact on further research activities and results in the project. The survey will also help to develop our open online platform, the LINKS Community Center, on which important information and guidance about social media and crowdsourcing in disasters will be gathered and discussed by an active community. The LINKS Community Center is currently under development and therefore an object of change. It can be reached under https://links.communitycenter.eu/

The participation in the survey is possible until 11th of April. Due to the case-specific focus in LINKS, the survey is also available in Danish, Dutch, German, Italian.  

The different versions are accessible under the following links:

English
Danish
Dutch
German
Italian

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Around the world, the 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are key players in working to prevent, lessen the impacts of and respond to all kinds of crises and disasters. Such a presence does not come about overnight and requires preparedness, organisation, funding and — first and foremost — commitment and enthusiasm to help. Mette Petersen is Director of the Red Cross EU Office, a membership office for the 27 National Societies in the EU, the Icelandic Red Cross, the Norwegian Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). For the last 20 years, she has worked continuously for the IFRC and National Red Cross Societies in different contexts in Asia, the Middle East and Turkey. Below she explains that accountability for its actions, not only towards donors but also towards people affected by disasters, is one of the cornerstones on which the Red Cross thrives. Greater accountability requires investment in many areas, including cooperation, coordination, local capacities and continuous community involvement. When it comes to disaster risk management, these aspects are also critical to creating a more resilient society in the EU, aided by the Union Civil Protection Mechanism.

Article by Mette Petersen, Red Cross EU Office, published in the European Court of Auditors journal.

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The ROADMAP project has the main objective to establish a European “Doctrine on disaster risk and crisis management”, funded on the mutual cooperation between scientific communities and DRM authorities. The doctrine, that is intended as “a shared understanding of disaster management between decision-makers and scientific actors”, will be based on selected experiences, good practices and implemented solutions in EU Member States.

To achieve the main objectives of the project throughout its duration, good practices, recommendations and lessons of prevention, preparation and response are collected and selected, which are shared through periodic bulletins in support of decision-makers.

At the following link you can access all the bulletins published

https://roadmap.ci3r.it/publications/

For more information on ROADMAP visit the project website https://roadmap.ci3r.it/

CIMA Research Foundation is a non-profit research organization that promotes the study, scientific research, technological development, and higher education in engineering and environmental sciences. CIMA is active in the fields of civil protection, risk reduction, climate change impact and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems conservation.

CIMA Research Foundation is looking for motivated young researchers to strength its activities in the field of drought research. This includes applied research and support to operational activities of different national and international institutions.

Interested candidates should submit their CV to the email ricerca.personale@cimafoundation.org (cover letter and reference letters can be submitted too) within 18.03.2022, specifying “Researcher in Drought modelling and risk assessment”. The target start date is as soon as possible. Further details are available at the link below.

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The Italian Center for Research on Risk Reduction CI3R is launching a call for 2 experts in risk and crisis communication in civil protection to compile the third thematic paper of ROADMAP, titled “Good practices in Building Back Better and Leaving No One Behind”.

The ROADMAP project has the main objective to establish a European “Doctrine on disaster risk and crisis management”, funded on the mutual cooperation between scientific communities and DRM authorities. The doctrine, that is intended as “a shared understanding of disaster management between decision-makers and scientific actors”, will be based on selected experiences, good practices and implemented solutions in EU Member States. Three thematic papers will be prepared on relevant themes in the DRM field. The selection of topics for the thematic papers and their critical review is achieved through synergic interaction with a suitably established Advisory Group (AG), formed by experts both on science and decision making in DRM.

For more information on ROADMAP visit the project website https://roadmap.ci3r.it/

All the information about the call is https://www.ci3r.it/en/call-for-experts-no-1-17-02-2022/

The deadline for application to the call is 28 February 2022, 12:00 CEST.

The last two years brought significant changes to the risk landscape: the COVID-19 crisis was accompanied by a series of natural disasters that hit Europe and the world especially during summer 2021. Concomitant disasters require from us to oversee, anticipate and manage these crisis in a more coordinated way.

In this evolving risk landscape science has gained a place of honor and become more central to policy making. This is the case particularly for disaster risk management where the role of Science and Policy Interface has become prominent. The 5th DRMKC seminar took place in this context where higher ambitions are expected from Science. 

The annual seminar brought together scientists, practitioners, policy makers and civil protection authorities across Europe to launch a new phase of dialogue between Science and Policy and to start building together the knowledge base for supporting the activities and actions of the Science Pillar of the Knowledge Network. 

At the seminar (report downloadable at this page), we discussed some of the current hot-topics for DRM, like the definition of the Union Disaster Resilience Goals and the design of transboundary, cross-sectorial, challenging scenarios to test them against in the coming years. In this, we should concluded that we be guided by the idea of "thinking the unthinkable": we should not stop at what we have experienced in the past, we should go beyond and reason around what this new society, with its new threats – and combinations of them – might bring us to cope with in the future.

Both COVID-19 pandemic and the developments of climate change impacts are clear signs for the need to go beyond what is considered probable, to be prepared also for what is only plausible. To be so visionary, we need everyone's engagement.

The results of this event, all comments and suggestions, are being carefully considered in the ongoing design of the roadmap of Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network Science Pillar. The 5th DRMKC Annual Seminar was only the beginning of a sustained dialogue, which will be nurtured with the aim of co-shaping with the scientific communities of all Member and Participating States the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network Science Pillar as we go along.

Link: https://drmkc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events-news/drmkc-annual-seminars/5th-drmkc-annual-seminar

The triennial EFDRR appointment took place in November 2021 (24-26). Several side events of the EFDRR 2021 were organized/contributed by members/partners of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre, thus animating the exchanges at the forum and backing the finalization of the EFRDD roadmap, which forms the basis for coordinated implementation of Sendai Framework for DRR and related SDGs targets until 2030. Find below the various sessions, with links to the dedicated pages:
- Strengthening disaster risk governance at local level: enhancing information exchanges through new technologies and assessment models; organized by H2020-DRS-01 Research Cluster (Disaster Resilience Societies) - link
- INFORM Subnational Risk Index in Europe & Central Asia; organized by  UNDRR and DPPI SEE - link
- Preventing another Sandoz, Baia Mare or Beirut accident: perspectives on risk management in the context of the Sendai Framework; organized by UNECE, EIB, OECD, Norway and Slovenia - link
- Working session on "Science Policy Interface – Improving data for DRR" - link
- EU-Research and Networking in Support of the Sendai Framework for Action; organized by the European Commission - link

Link to the EFDRR 2021 webpage: https://efdrr.undrr.org/

The Scientific opinion on "Strategic crisis management for the EU" following the Advisors' own initiative and mandated by Commissioners Gabriel (for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth) and  Lenarčič  (for Crisis Management) should address the key aspects that have been raised in the Scoping Paper issued in June 2021 and that resulted from a wide consultation with EU Commission Directorates General, Agencies and Services. It follows previous activities on crisis management of the Covid 19 pandemic (the Statement and the Scientific Opinion issued respectively in June 2020 and in November 2020) and is aimed at addressing the main gaps and opportunities for enhanced preparedness, improved response capacity and addressing recovery after major crises that may occur in the future and affect Europe at large.

The opinion will be based on an extensive evidence review report (ERR) that is currently developed by SAPEA (Scientific Advice for Policy by European Academies), on a number of consultations with diverse stakeholders internal and external to the Commission and on the contributions of international experts. The main starting point reflects the recognition, following also the Foresight Reports and Program, that the EU and the European societies are exposed and vulnerable to global hazards and a range of natural or human-made shocks which include and go beyond major health threats.

Furthermore, the Scoping Paper explicitly ask for guidance on the multi hazard nature of likely future events that imply cascading and domino effects that must be de-escalated through appropriate planning, preparedness, anticipation and prevention. Therefore, a cross sectoral approach is called for and one that addresses the entire cycle of crises, from pre-shock to response and recovery. 

Whilst recognizing the added value of the existing articulated policies and of resilience as a guiding concept of EU strategies, the scoping paper also asks for a framework to help overcome the fragmentation of understanding and definitions that exist among sectoral policy strategies in the EU which may lead to fragmented crisis management mechanisms and operations. It does demand to ground on relevant knowledge that has been already produced, explicitly mentioning among others the Copernicus Service, the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre, the recently launched Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network, the Climate Adapt Platform.  Ultimately, the opinion should highlight what methodologies, informational and knowledge sources can help improve the European collective cognition of complex crises.

Link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/support-policy-making/scientific-support-eu-policies/group-chief-scientific-advisors/strategic-crisis-management-eu_en

This flagship event focused on two horizontal priorities: climate change and exploiting research & innovation. It also showcased the integration of all CEMS components in the "summer of disasters" session. Further, it offered ample room for the communities to learn and discuss progress in floods, fires, droughts and mapping. On the first day of the event, the floods team launched the "Global Flood Monitoring System", bringing a revolution to near real-time flood monitoring globally. On the last day of the event, the wildfire team released the annual report "Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2020", prefaced by Commissioners Gabriel and Sinkevicius, with an EC Press Release.

The increasing demand for CEMS data to support decision-making in disaster and risk management activities, as well as the growing role of climate change and Member States' increasing reliance on geospatial information, remained a common theme among high-level introductory speeches. Clear examples of this trend are the significant flooding which took place this summer in central Europe, the Wildfire crises that took place last August, or the volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of  La Palma. 

Panel discussions, interviews and presentations from each of the service components followed, including the adoption of the Global Human Settlement Layer as new service component.

Check out the new Copernicus EMS video which showcases the service's contribution to early warning, response and recovery efforts globally: https://youtu.be/fjauY-FF_JE 

Link to the CEMS week conclusions: https://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/ems/cems-week-2021-conclusions-community-insights-and-service-evolutions

The EEA web report 'Europe's changing climate hazards' summarizes past trends and projected changes in key climate hazards for Europe, based on more than 30 hazard indices. Climate hazards are grouped according to the 'climatic impact driver' categories underlying the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Many indices in the web report can be explored interactively, based on the European Climate Data Explorer.

The European Climate Data Explorer is a graphical user interface on the European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT) that provides interactive access to many climate indices from the Climate Data Store of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The Explorer was designed for policymakers and other stakeholders that want condense and intuitive information at various spatial levels.  It was launched in May 2021 on the Climate-ADAPT platform based on a cooperation between C3S and the EEA. The current version of the European Climate Data Explorer includes around 20 climate indices, including several related to human health.

EEA plans to update both the European Climate Data Explorer and the EEA web report on climate hazards regularly as new indices and data sources become available in the C3S Climate Data Store. A focus of the updates in 2022 will be on climate indices relevant for disaster risk reduction.

Links:
- Europe's changing climate hazards — an index-based interactive EEA report: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/europes-changing-climate-hazards-1/climate-hazards-indices
- European Climate Data Explorer: https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/knowledge/european-climate-data-explorer 

"Collaboration is not some nice to have thing that we may or may not want to do: it is an existential necessity if we really want to keep this world safe" summarized Chikwe Ihekweazu as the main take away of the third EIOS Global Technical Meeting (GTM), which took place from 6-10  December 2021. As the new Assistant Director General (ADG) of the World Health Organization (WHO), Ihekweazu is leading the recently launched WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, of which the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources initiative (EIOS) will form an integral part. 

Pre-dating and in line with the Hub's vision of global collaboration for "better data, better insights and better decisions" when it comes to health emergencies, the EIOS GTM is the initiative's key annual event since 2018.  In the spirit of EIOS, a global collaborative of multi-disciplinary experts focusing on issues of Public Health Intelligence (PHI), the GTM aims to bring these experts together once a year to further strengthen existing networks, build new alliances as well as to discuss topical challenges, solutions, and innovations in the field. 

After a hiatus in 2020 due to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the 2021 GTM was held virtually and explored from multiple perspectives how the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted the Public Health Intelligence function. Under the slogan "Together for Zero Impact from Health Threats", referring to the EIOS initiative's vision, the event was attended live by 374 participants from more than 80 different countries. Meeting attendees were comprised of multidisciplinary experts from government and academic institutions, NGOs, UN agencies, as well as the private sector, overall representing over 70 different entities.

The ability to convene communities from around the world, working together under a common mission of "making the world a safer place through public health intelligence" was also recognized by Mike Ryan, Executive Director of WHO's Emergencies Programme. In his welcome address to participants, he called EIOS "one of WHO's flagship initiatives [that] has stimulated innovative research and development through collaborations across sectors, disciplines, and jurisdictions."

Like the successful 2019 event that took place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, the 2021 agenda was almost entirely driven by the growing community behind the EIOS initiative. More than 80 speakers contributed to 18 live sessions over the five conference days.  
The Joint Research Center was represented with several presentations in sessions related to "Data for Public Health Intelligence – Connecting the Dots" and "Insights from Data - Navigating the Infodemic." They updated GTM participants on composite indicators as a source of contextual information in the EIOS system, as well as on ongoing work and research in Natural Language Processing and trend analysis of COIVD-19 disinformation. 

Live illustrations of the GTM sessions, as well as two live poetry performances dedicated to the work and experience of  Public Health Intelligence experts added an artistic component to the event, which was particularly appreciated by participants. "As a scientist I have found that Arts and culture are an untapped resource that can strengthen our work. It was great to see this [poetry] session at the GTM," says Peter Babigumira Ahabwe, Technical Advisor at the Uganda Public Health Emergency Operations Center. He adds that the GTM was an important event because it provided a platform and forum for dialogue. 

More information about the 2021 EIOS GTM, more visuals and access to session recordings will soon be available for on-demand view on the EIOS website under www.who.int/eios. 

Link: www.who.int/eios

In conjunction with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), C3S reports that preliminary analysis of satellite measurements confirm that atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continued to rise during 2021.  For the year as a whole, in 2021 Europe was just 0.1 °C above the 1991-2020 average, which ranks outside the ten warmest years. The ten warmest years for Europe have all occurred since 2000, with the seven warmest years being 2014-2020.

Several high-impact extreme events happened during summer 2021 in Europe. July saw a very heavy rainfall event in western central Europe in a region with soils close to saturation, leading to severe floods in several countries, with the most heavily impacted including Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The Mediterranean region experienced a heatwave during July and part of August, with high temperatures particularly affecting Greece, Spain, and Italy. Hot and dry conditions preceded intense and prolonged wildfires, particularly in the eastern and central Mediterranean with Turkey being one of the most impacted countries, in addition to Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania, North Macedonia, Algeria, and Tunisia.

Mauro Facchini, Head of Earth Observation at the Directorate General for Defence Industry and Space, European Commission, comments: "Europe's commitment to respond to the Paris agreement can only be achieved through effective analysis of climate information. The Copernicus Climate Change Service provides an essential global resource through operational, high-quality information about the state of our climate that is instrumental for both climate mitigation and adaptation policies. The 2021 analysis, showing that globally the warmest years by far were recorded in the last seven years, is a reminder of the continued increase in global temperatures and the urgent necessity to act."

C3S will comprehensively review different 2021 climate events in Europe in its annual European State of the Climate, due to be published in April 2022.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the European Union.

Link: https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-globally-seven-hottest-years-record-were-last-seven

INFORM Risk is a global multi-hazard risk assessment tool that combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability and lack of coping capacity indicators with the purpose to quantify the risk of humanitarian crisis.

It was developed in response to needs of numerous organizations to improve the common evidence basis for risk analysis. Recent collaboration between the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change the Joint Research Centre of European Commission results in an upgrade of the risk index that includes projections of exposure to climate-related hazards (floods and droughts) and allows us to estimate what level of vulnerability and lack of coping capacity reduction would be required to offset increasing risk.

The largest mid-century vulnerability and lack of coping capacity gap are observed in much of Europe, Western and Northern Asia and Africa. Countries located in such regions will need heavy investments in reducing vulnerability and increasing coping capacity to keep the manageable risk levels.

Changes to risk and vulnerability (lack of coping capacity) are mainly driven by increases in climate-related hazards rather than changes of exposure.

Hence, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation should be the main policy response to mitigate the adverse effects of climate-related amplified hazard and risk.

The Joint Research Centre of European Commission is the scientific and technical lead, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is the coordinator of INFORM.

Links: 
- https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-update/inform-climate-change-risk
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378021001722

Preventing, preparing for, and responding to disasters requires strong cooperation, coordination at many levels and a combination of skills and expertise. The Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network, established through Decision No 1313/2013/EU, aims to strengthen the Union Civil Protection Mechanism in all these aspects.  

During the "Knowledge Network Day", European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič hosted a high-level panel that marked the official launch of the initiative. It was followed by two working sessions focused on the role of knowledge in the management of crises (illustrated by a case study of the 2021 forest fires in southeast Europe) and the role of science in support of prevention, preparedness, and resilience in a changing risk landscape. The Day also featured the first meeting of the Knowledge Network Board, which brings together representatives from UCPM Member and Participating States to advise the Commission on the strategic direction of the Network.

The Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network already features some well-known and successful activities that it strengthens and makes more inclusive, like the UCPM training programme or the activities of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre, the nucleus of the Network's Science Pillar. More activities, plans, and a set of collaborative features on its online platform will be released in the months to come.

Link: https://civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/launch-knowledge-network-place-connect-share-and-grow

Since 2014 the annual Conference was organized in different venues of Greece each time keeping the same objective. In 2021, for second consecutive year, SafeGreece took advantage of the new technologies for a fully on-line Conference.
The "8th International Conference on Civil Protection and New Technologies - Safe Greece 2021" brought in contact people from Science and Technology, Local Governments and Central Administration, Private Sector and Voluntary Organizations from Greece and abroad aiming to:
- strengthen interdisciplinary and cooperation in Civil Protection, as times demand,
- utilize various new technological achievements for the benefit of Civil Protection,
- exchange of experience, lessons learned and good practices,
- discuss on contemporary challenges about Civil Protection
This year, giving special importance to the dissemination of knowledge, events fully open to society and workshops especially for Local Government Civil Protection officers were planned.
DRMKC was invited to present during the session of "invited talks" on 24 November, to share the outcomes of the "Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020 - Acting Today, Protecting Tomorrow", which summarizes the state of relevant science from a European perspective. The 2020 report approached the DRM cycle through the impacts and assets at risk perspective. The analysis centred on the consequences of disasters on these assets.

Link: https://safegreece.org/safegreece2021/images/docs/safegreece2021_proceedings.pdf

A new paper building on the Global Human Settlement-S2 built up layer provides insights into space-time variability of Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) at a global scale.
The results reveal that short-term (3-day) maxima of day SUHI can be several degrees higher than seasonally estimated SUHI, with differences up to 10 K and more, while they can vary by an order of magnitude within cities. This can be linked with increasing urbanisation, more frequent heatwaves, and greening of the earth, processes that are all expected to continue in the coming decades.
The management of extreme heat in cities will therefore be a major challenge to improve health and the urban environment.

As the human and economic costs of climate disasters continue to mount, Canada faces a choice. According to a new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), bridging disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation practices is crucial to reducing exposure and vulnerability to disasters and bolstering public safety in a changing climate.

Canada is susceptible to a wide range of severe weather events, from extremes of hot and cold, to tornadoes, floods, droughts, avalanches, landslides, winter storms, ice storms, and wildfires. In a changing climate, these events are becoming more common and severe, and they are increasingly likely to strike at the same time and place, exacerbating and compounding the hazardous consequences. 

Canada can continue to respond to disasters as they unfold — with the intendant economic, social, and health harms — or it can proactively prepare for them, mitigating the worst of the damages or avoiding them altogether. The cost of preventing and preparing for disasters is several times less than responding to and recovering from them. However, most governments persistently underinvest in risk reduction and later pay the price in terms of disaster response and recovery. 

According to the Expert Panel, decision makers need prompt access to better data on extreme weather events to understand and reduce risks. Funding, investment, and insurance programs and policies can also be adapted to build resilience. For example, actions could include dissuading homeowners from building or rebuilding on floodplains, lowering insurance premiums for households with backwater flood valves, and improving building codes and engineering practices to climate-proof buildings and infrastructure. Recognizing the value of Indigenous and Local Knowledge and actively engaging with Indigenous knowledge holders is also critical in the effective reduction of risk.

Building a Resilient Canada identifies choices that households, communities, businesses, and governments can make to reduce the impacts of extreme weather on Canada’s people, communities, and economy in a changing climate. The report details the resources, funding programs, investment options, insurance offerings, and governance structures that can support effective decision-making and a more resilient Canada.

The report can be downloaded in English and French at: https://cca-reports.ca/reports/disaster-resilience/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cca_reports?s=20

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6885213263345315840 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/councilofcanadianacademies/

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We are looking for a data scientist to help us to discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data that can support the decision making process in Disaster Risk Management. The primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, performing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrating data collected at different scales from local to regional and up to a Pan-European Scale.
The selected candidate will contribute to the assessment of the data and science landscape for the different DRM phases:
- S/he will gain an overview of all potential sources, identify the scope and the type of data required to fulfil the knowledge gap in understanding disaster risks, facilitate acquisition, storing and modelling of the data.
- S/he will undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data, analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns, build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms and combine models through ensemble modelling.
- S/he will support in preparing analytical situation reports, scenario building, policy briefs and customizing them for the targeted audience (e.g. policy makers, operational bodies, academia, citizens). 
- S/he will leverage information design concepts and principles to create compelling and effective charts, tables, presentations and other visuals that convey analytical results clearly and effectively.

More details on the page https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=AX&site=IPR

Code: 2021-IPR-E1-FGIV-019508
Title: FG IV - Programme Officer - Data scientist for the DRMKC support to the Science pillars of the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network
Deadline: 31/01/2022 Brussels time
Info: https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=A&id=2156

The ROADMAP project (https://roadmap.ci3r.it) invites you to attend its second webinar, 6 December 2021 10:00 - 12:30 CET. We will discuss relevant topics related to the complex task of communicating during critical events with the following experts:

Nicola Nosengo - Science writer and scientific communicator

Iain Stewart - Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth UK

Lucia Castro Herrera  - PhD candidate Centre for Integrated Emergency Management CIEM at the University of Agder Norway

See the detailed agenda here: https://bit.ly/roadmap2web_agenda

The participation is free, but registration is mandatory ( by 05.12.21). The language of the webinar is English.

Please visit https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zWSOA2IWTH6r0IqUNXYvrA