RESILIAGE

Advancing holistic understanding of community RESILIence and heritAGE drivers through community-based methodologies

Summary

RESILIAGE’s mission is to provide novel knowledge and impactful solutions for exploiting Europe´s hidden and unused resource: community resilience. RESILIAGE will enable a step-change in Disaster Risk Management and in the way research and practice deal with variation in aspects of society like culture, risk awareness, inclusion, socio-economic and geographical conditions by co-creating resilient communities through digital tools and soft solutions consolidated in a holistic and systemic approach.

Recent crises and disasters have affected the European citizens’ lives, livelihoods, and environment in unforeseen and unprecedented ways. They have transformed our very understanding of them by reshaping hitherto unchallenged notions of the “local” and the “global” and putting into question well-rehearsed conceptual distinctions of “natural” and “man-made” disasters. These disasters are exacerbated by social inequality, economic and political crises reducing the capacity of effective preparedness and response. They are intensifying pre-existing structural inequality experienced by vulnerable groups as they are affecting socially and geographically diverse communities not in the same way. Inadequate technologies providing insufficient knowledge and (social) media providing insufficient information have challenged a shared recognition and reaction to them as they unfold. Current statistics and data on behaviours in the case of disasters or crisis situations do not provide adequate knowledge in the way citizens react during an emergency. This inadequate knowledge impacts on first responders’ (FRs) effective actions, design of technological systems, adequate policy design and implementation in the form of Preparedness Plans (PPs) at different scales.

Human behaviours and actions are influenced by interlinked psychological, social, cultural, historical, economic, and environmental factors. These factors on how citizens individually and collectively act and react during emergencies are not adequately understood. Unidentified and unintended cascades of crises and disasters have not just revealed the interconnectedness and fragility of our societal infrastructures but put new challenges and a prolonged demand on strained FR organisations. Despite these developments, local communities have been preparing and reacting to crises and disasters within a complex network of socio-cultural-economic interactions developed throughout history.

Activties

In order to achieve the goals listed in the summary, RESILIAGE has 8 work packages (WPs) housing its various activities.

WP1 Building a Knowledge Baseline will conduct a set of desk research to identify international standards of crisis preparedness planning and existing best practices and LL from past events. It will also design the RESILIAGE multi sources multiscalar data model by considering related heterogeneous information and data to be codified and addressed to the scope of the research.

WP2 Modelling behaviours: Building the assessment and monitoring framework will conduct a gap analysis on the implementation of crisis preparedness. It will also define a set of indicators for Systemic Community Resilience Assessment and Monitoring.

WP3 Resource Ecosystem for Community Resilience will design and develop the digital Resource Ecosystem for analysing, enhancing and monitoring Community Resilience to support local communities and make available all RESILIAGE holistic knowledge, tools and solutions to any other interested users.

WP4 Community-based approaches and solutions for improving disaster management and citizens engagement will identify the needs about current solutions and training and it will design a set of community centred solutions for improving disaster management and citizens engagement

WP5 CORE labs participatory validation of the RESILIAGE digital tools and soft-solutions will validate the RESILIAGE digital tools and soft-solutions in a variety of possible disasters, involving the CORE labs in the validation process.

WP6 Building Awareness and Resilience in EU and Beyond will support the implementation of international and EU policy frameworks, formulate recommendations on resilience management and strengthen cross-sectoral synergies between decision makers.

Two transversal WPs will run in parallel, namely:

WP7 Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation will promote the dissemination and adoption of RESILIAGE outcomes from relevant stakeholders, ensuring that project results have wide diffusion among end users (mainly FRs, citizens including vulnerable groups, local authorities).

WP8 Project Management will ensure the delivery of project objectives within time, will foster the coordination and collaboration among members of the consortium and will ensure the management of relationships and obligations towards the European Commission.

Partners

  • Politecnico di Torino (Italy)

  • United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (France)

  • Deep Blue srl (Italy)

  • Stiftelsen for Industriell Og Teknisk Forskning (Norway)

  • Vienna Centre For Societal Security (Austria)

  • Universite de Nimes (France)

  • Globaz, s.a (Portugal)

  • De Surdurulebilir Enerji Ve Insaat san. tic. ltd. sti. (Turkey)

  • Vexiza Sociedad Limitad (Spain)

  • Almende bv (Netherlands)

  • Panepistimio Kritis (Greece)

  • Trondheim Red Cross (Norway)

  • Karsiyaka Municipality (Turkey)

  • Geopark Famenne-Ardenne (Belgium)

  • Naturtejo Unesco Global Geopark (Portugal)

  • Escuela Nacional be Bomberos (Portugal)

  • Cittadinanza Attiva (Italy)

  • Asociación Pasos Solidarios (Spain)

 

Runtime

09/2023 - 09/2026

Funding

RESILIAGE has received funding by the European Union’s HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-04 under the grant agreement no 101121231

 
 

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