During the Italian National Week of Civil Protection, the Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia (ISIG) and the Municipality of Gorizia have organised ResiFestGO: Resilience Festival in Gorizia. Stemming from the experience of the RESILOC project, a strong collaboration of various stakeholders was built throughout the territory of Friuli Venezia Read more…
“Resilience for All”. This is the motto that has been guiding RESILOC efforts in Bulgaria. This motto has also become part of the understanding of two Bulgarian communities – that of the village of Tetovo (RESILOC trial community) and the town of Dve Mogili (early adopter community). Throughout RESILOC, the Read more…
An attempt to phrase the baseline of thoughts, expressed in the session on “Increasing citizens risk awareness in the face of new risks”, could easily lead to the concept of “change, trust and adaption”. These interrelated factors became prevalent as the different speakers described a changing landscape of risks to Read more…
Beyond its EU focus, the RESILOC project has a natural link to the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) by successfully responding to the European Commission’s call for research and innovative actions on solutions to create a resilient society in Europe in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Read more…
The Horizon 2020 DRS01 Cluster represented by projects RESILOC, BUILDERS, LINKS and Engage contributed to the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) 2021 held on the 24th November in Matosinhos, Portugal; holding a joint multi-stakeholder oriented session for the acceleration of the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Read more…
On Tuesday 07 September 2021, the first RESILOC “Project to Policy Workshop” took place. The workshop was attended by the RESILOC team of resilience experts as well as representatives of strategic partners including UNDRR, DG HOME, EC JRC and EC REA.; focusing jointly on exploring the baselines for transposition of project-based outcomes and policy recommendations Read more…
Defining project-based POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS requires building bridges between scientific evidence and public policy, thus highlighting the utility of scientific findings for results-based policy making. Translating the fruit of research efforts into policy is about achieving impact in the public interest, as uni-dimensional, linear models that aim to link research to action Read more…
RESILOC was able to present two technical papers to domain experts and scientific peers during this years ISCRAM Conference hosted by the Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg Virginia USA. The conference annually invites a community dedicated to promoting research and development, exchange of knowledge and deployment of information systems for Read more…
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) presented the work of the RESILOC semantic framework at the 4th Scientific Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (HDRRF) in Greece. It exposed the concept of bringing conclusive vulnerability assessments to the community level by using semantic analysis to the both scientists and Read more…
Katja Banovec Juroš, Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief of the Republic of Slovenia Katja Banovec Juroš has worked at the Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (ACCRA) since 1996. With a B.Sc. in Informatics, she began to work on the development of Geographic Information System for Civil Read more…