With the increasing number of man-made and natural disasters, there has been a growing consensus about mitigating risks by involving not only the scientific community but ensuring that populations are well-informed and prepared and therefore that societal resilience is strengthened.

Within this framework, as part of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly, CORE EU and RiskPACC will co-chair a session focusing on strengthening risk perception and awareness by leveraging on communication and citizen science.  

The session will take place in Vienna, Austria on 28th April, 08h30-12h30 CET. Many interesting speakers will be joining the event introducing the audience to a wide range of topics within this thematic from risk communication, to strengthening community preparedness, to targeting youngsters in strengthening risk perception and awareness, to fighting the spread of misinformation to mention a few.

Online participation will be enabled. Zoom meeting links will appear before the start of each session. The morning event will be followed by a poster presentation in hybrid format, 14h00-15h45 CET.

To access the event programme, click on THIS LINK.

💡 In the HERoS Project, they have developed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic.
In this course, they have distilled three years of research on the COVID-19 pandemic into four interconnected pieces: crisis governance, behavioural and epidemiological modeling, medical logistics, and social media analytics. 
 
🏫 Four top European Universities, Hanken School of Economics, Delft University of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) and The Open University joined forces to create this course along with the project partners such as Italian Red Cross of Ardea, Fundacja Polskie Centrum Pomocy Międzynarodowej (PCPM), Project HOPE, Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Nordic Healthcare Group, and Squadron Sp. z o.o.. The course will be offered in the FutureLearn (https://lnkd.in/eGD-SC3U) Platform early next year. 
 
🎞 Here is the trailer for the course: https://lnkd.in/eVztj3EF.
 
👁 Please keep an eye on the HERoS Project’s website (https://lnkd.in/eWdtT72G ) and social media.

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CORE EU-funded Project Consortium held its second webinar on Designing an inclusive resilience: the consideration of vulnerability before, during & after disasters - last October 3, featuring 11 high-level speakers from policy-making, research & operational intervention fields.