Overall Activities

  • Sharing of experiences and best practices, especially through workshops, education, and scientific projects.
  • Development of courses and seminars in disasters and natural hazards.
  • Integrated degree paths among our members, with the goal that all graduate students in the disaster and natural hazards sciences will spend some time at a partner university to gain a broader perspective.
  • Propose and conduct joint research projects on risk-vulnerability-hazard links.
  • Develop and test new societal initiatives and technologies for real-time monitoring, hazard and vulnerability assessment, and forecasting and warning.
  • Link monitoring and exchange across borders.
  • Develop best practices in stimulating vulnerability and risk reduction, as well as preparedness and planning, by everyone through realistic scenarios, education, and support for local leadership.
  • Develop disaster-related science diplomacy, disaster diplomacy, and risk diplomacy activities, such as workshops, conference sessions, research projects, and publications with the Science Diplomacy Thematic Network.

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