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🔎FOCUS on Consuelo Agnesi (Vice President CERPA Italia Onlus
(European Center for Research and Promotion of Accessibility)), who will take the floor on "Vulnerability and resilience in natural disaster: towards inclusive communication".
 
 📑 ABSTRACT 📑

👉 Inclusive and empathic communication, in all its declensions, is crucial today both in daily life and in emergency situations. Each of us has a personal way of communicating and in every meaning, even in silence, through touch, with a simple nod or in another language.

👉 Despite the presence of endless possibilities to convey any message, today people continue to always go through traditional channels such as voice and sound, thus leaving behind all the people who have specific needs or use unconventional channels for communication. 

👉 Before, during, and after natural disasters, the absence of effective communication that reaches everyone is not considered in every variable, and as a result, people become increasingly vulnerable.

👉 How can one ask for help or get information about a possible alert? How to relate to a vulnerable person in an emergency? These are some of the questions that can be answered in the experiences that will be shared.

💡 BIOGRAPHY 💡
  
👉 Deaf Architect, consultant, trainer & design activies in the field of Inclusive Design, inclusive safety, inclusive emergency & inclusive communication in all its forms. 

👉 She is member of the “Observatory on the safety and rescue of people with special needs” of the Italian National Fire and Rescue Service, Vice President CERPA Italia Onlus
(European Center for Research and Promotion of Accessibility) & lecturer at the Padua University. 

👉 She carries out research and design activities in the field of Universal Design, inclusive safety and inclusive communication in all its forms. In the particular focus of communication from planning to single intervention, she investigates ways and tools (multimodal, multisensory and multi-channel) systems to convey information in ordinary and emergency to everyone.

👉 She also studies the most effective strategies of relationship between rescuers and resilient community in an emergency. On these issues she has carried out training activities aimed at rescue operators (firefighters and civil protection) and conducted experiments and exercises.  

👉 On the same themes she has reported in technical-scientific conferences and is the author of scientific contributions and technical publications on the topics of reference.

👉 Since 2020 she collaborates with Soluzioni Emergenti, a start-up with special skills in inclusive design and inclusive safety management.

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🔎FOCUS on Grigore Havarneanu (Coordinator of PROACTIVE_EU Project), who will take the floor on "Vulnerability in the CBRNe context".
 
 📑 ABSTRACT 📑

The presentation will discuss vulnerability in a particular context which is a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and explosive (CBRNe) event and showcase how civil society (including vulnerable groups) is involved into CBRNe preparedness research in the H2020 project PROACTIVE_EU.
 
💡 BIOGRAPHY 💡

👉 Grigore Havarneanu (PhD) is a Traffic and Transport Psychologist with international experience as researcher, project manager and lecturer.

👉 He is currently Senior Research Advisor at the International Union of Railways in Paris, where he is involved in European research projects and leads EU-funded project proposals.

👉 He coordinates the PROACTIVE_EU project and conducts applied psychology and human factors research to improve the safety, security and resilience of land transport.

📚 KEY PUBLICATIONS 📚

👉 Preparing railway stakeholders against CBRNe threats through better cooperation with security practitioners (Grigore Havarneanu, Laura Petersen, Andreas Arnold Danielle Carbon Thomas Goergen: https://lnkd.in/eMReFhAy!.

👉 Inclusive communication in times of crisis: lessons learned and recommendations from COVID-19 and other CBRNe incidents based on recent COVINFORM Project & PROACTIVE_EU findings (Grigore Havarneanu, Laura Petersen, Susan Anson, Diotima Bertel):  https://lnkd.in/eG2jKdpJ.

👉 More publications: https://lnkd.in/e2PdgN7T.

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🔎🇪🇺 FOCUS on Giampiero Griffo (World Council Member of Disabled Peoples International, who will take the floor on "The need to define better vulnerability".
 
 📑 ABSTRACT 📑

👉 Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD - United Nations) which commits to guaranteeing the protection of persons with disabilities in the event of disasters and emergency situations is still poorly applied by governments (it is seen during the SAR-COV-2 pandemic and the war in Ukraine).

👉 An European Disability Forum research showed that out of 55 European and Asian countries surveyed, only 5 had specific attention to persons with disabilities in the event of disasters. There are many lack of attention and lack of initiatives.

👉 Persons with disabilities are not vulnerable but become vulnerable for barriers and discrimination produce by society, in emergency situation too.
The construction of inclusive protection systems is a process whose essential elements are: the involvement of organizations of persons with disabilities in all emergency clusters, a systematic collection of data (mapping of persons with disabilities for rescue and first assistance, adaptation of means and tools, specific training for operators and persons with disabilities, inclusion in national and territorial emergency plans, legislation and resources invested.

👉 Persons with disabilities are no longer the object of interventions decided by others, but subject to change and innovation: "nothing about us without us”.
 
🇪🇺 BIOGRAPHY 🇪🇺

👉 Human Rights defender
👉 Coordinator of the Technical & Scientific Committee of the National Observatory of the Condition of Persons with Disabilities
👉 Co-director of the Center for Governmentality & Disability studies “Robert Castel” (CeRC) of Università degli Studi 'Suor Orsola Benincasa'​” in Naples.

👉 Wheelchair user, active from 19722 at local, national and international level, Giampiero Griffo is World Council Member of Disabled Peoples International, Board member of European Disability Forum, Chairperson of the Italian network on disability and development, Member of S. Marino Bioethic Committee.

👉 Advisor in Italian delegation at the Ad Hoc Committee that writed the UNCRPD.
👉 Expert in European and international cooperation projets, he has also edited articles, books and research in all areas of disability issues at national and international level in 4 languages.
👉 Member of the Economic & Social Committee of the Italian Council of Ministries Presidency for planning the post SARS-COV-2 pandemic.