The RESILOC project ( Resilient Europe and Societies by Innovating Local Communities) received funding under the call H2020-EU.3.7.5. - Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters you can read more about the project below:
Resilience is defined by the United Nations as “the ability to resist, absorb and accommodate
to the effects of a hazard, in a timely and efficient manner”. Thus, resilient communities are those in which their
citizens, environment, businesses, and infrastructures have the capacity to withstand, adapt, and recover in a timely
manner from any kind of hazards they face, either planned or unplanned. In recent years efforts have been spent to
tackle resilience and there is, still, a long path forward in defining an EU valid and sound approach to the
problem.
RESILOC aims at studying and implementing a holistic framework of studies, methods and software instruments that
combines the physical with the less tangible aspects associated with human behaviour.
The study-oriented section of the framework will move from a thorough collection and analysis of literature and stories
from the many approaches to resilience adopted all over the World. The results of the studies will lead to the
definition of a set of new methods and strategies where the assessment of the resilience indicators of a community will
be performed together with simulations on the “what-if” certain measures are taken. These studies and methods will
serve for designing and implementing two software instruments:
1. the RESILOC inventory, a comprehensive, live, structure for collecting, classifying and using information on cities
and local communities, implemented as a Software as a Service (SaaS).
2. The RESILOC Cloud-based platform for assessing and calculating the resilience indicators of a city or a community,
for developing localised strategies and verifying their impacts on the resilience of the community. The Cloud platform,
a combination of SaaS and PaaS, includes the inventory as its repository.
The project will make use of built solutions in four field trials and includes a high-profile communication plan,
heavily based on Social Media platforms.