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Last September 29 & 30 in Laxenburg (Austria), CORE EU-funded Project Consortium & its Advisory Board gathered for their General Assembly (GA) that concluded the first year of the project.
π’ The event was hosted & organised by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), with the support of UniversitΓ degli Studi di Salerno (Coordination).
π The GA was the occasion for the partners to meet (again), wrap up everything done within the first year of the project, discuss theoretical concerns, plan actions, receive feedback from the Advisory Board, etc.
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π CORE EU-funded Project Consortium just held its second webinar - Designing an inclusive resilience: the consideration of vulnerability before, during & after disasters - yesterday afternoon, featuring 11 high-level speakers from policy-making, research & operational intervention fields.
- π [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°10] CORE EU-funded Project Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience π
- π [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°9] CORE EU-funded Project Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience π
- π [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°8] CORE EU-funded Project Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience π
- π [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°7] CORE EU-funded Project Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience π
- ππͺπΊ [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°6] CORE EU-funded Project Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience πͺπΊ π
- ππͺπΊ [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°5 (EC)] CORE EU-funded Project Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience πͺπΊ π
- π [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°4] CORE Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience π
- [Webinar #2 - 8 days left)] Final agenda & promotion of speakers
- π [FOCUS SPEAKER NΒ°3] CORE Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience π
- π [FOCUS SPEAKER #2] CORE Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience π
- π [Webinar #2 - FOCUS SPEAKER] Leyla Craig - The Co-Production Approach to Fire Safety for People with Disabilities
- [UPCOMING] CORE Webinar #2: Designing an inclusive resilience: The full consideration of vulnerability before, during and after disasters
- [NEWS DIGEST] Building disaster resilience with vulnerable groups
- [National Focus β GERMANY] New start for the civil protection & recommendations
- Calls for ABSTRACT and PAPERS for Resilient Infrastructures (by CDRI)
- Artificial intelligence (AI): What biases in algorithmic decision-making systems? β A perspective within the technological storm
- JRC: New algorithm for risks & ο»Ώdisasters management
- π CORE Newsletter #2 released
- [Workshop - EP] Pandemics and other health crises: Lessons learned and future scenarios
- π‘ CHECK OUT ALL BuildERS H2020 RESULTS π‘
- European State of the Climate (ESOTC) 2021 is now released
- [PRESS RELEASE] CORE successfully held its 1st webinar on Societal Resilience
- Destination Earth (DestinE): key initiative for building resilience to climate-change
- CORE Webinar #1 - RESILIENCE OF THE SOCIETY: A global perspective
- Disaster Risk Reduction: the importance of the early warning systems
- Climate Change : IPCC Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability is released
π Last but not the least, FOCUS on Stefano Zanut (Architect & Senior Fire Officer in Ministero dell'Interno - Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco), who will take the floor on "Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Operational perspectives with cognitive disabilities (Down syndrome)".
π ABSTRACT π
π As consequence of their difficulty to establish a relationship with the reality, people with cognitive disabilities may have a lot of problems in managing an emergency situation starting from the understanding of what is happening as well as to the elaboration of what to do in this situations.
π Here is the crucial point: the way to prepare them to face up to possible critical situations and manage relationship with them as end-user, for instance. It's important to elaborate strategies to prepare them before, during and after natural disasters.
π The presentation will be about an experience carried out in Italy with a community of people with down syndrome involved in an independent life route, with formative dating on how to know and manage an earthquake. In this route also was actively involved Firefighters and Civil Protection volonteers.
π‘ BIOGRAPHY π‘
π He is Architect and Senior Fire Officer of the Italian National Fire and Rescue Service (Ministero dell'Interno - Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco) and Member of the Observatory on safety and rescue for people with special needs, where are involved also people with disabilities and their associations.
π He has experience in rescue and emergency management in case of anthropogenic or natural events. He produced several interesting contributions, mainly in italian language, where inclusion is to be considered an important factor to guarantee safety and rescue for all.
π In the field of cognitive disabilities, he edited, together with other experts, the guidelines for helping people with autism during emergency situations: https://lnkd.in/e93BsquC.
π He presented a contribution at XI Autism-Europe International Congress 2016: https://lnkd.in/euaQwrVr.
π On the same topic he also participated in the drafting of the poster "HELPING YOU TO RESCUE ME The rescue of people with ASD: guidelines for figthfirers": https://lnkd.in/eQvdmdJC.
π With other autors he presented βPeople with disabilities and emergency: a survey in Friuli Venezia Giuliaβ at ESC2016, the General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission: https://lnkd.in/eTbyR3FY.
π He is working in the CORE EU-funded Project in the field of DRR & vulnerable categories.
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