Project News

Researchers from our team published a new paper on individual social capital in crisis response

BuildERS partners join the great discussion at the NEEDS conference

BuildERS partner develops mobile dashboard to be used in crisis management

RiskPACC and CORE are the two projects with whom we will create synergies in the following months

Our project will join the Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS '21).

Interview with Lorenzo Massucchielli from the Italian Red Cross

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.

How can we best prepare ourselves to deal with disasters? How can we build a better, more effective crisis management strategy, with the help of modern technology?

We charted the practitioners’ approaches to disaster vulnerability in eight European countries – Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Estonia – to reveal significant differences across countries in terms of the meanings of vulnerability, its sources, reduction strategies, and the allocation of related duties.

During emergencies, exposure to false information can increase individual vulnerability. Our study contributes to a better understanding of how the effects of false information are mitigated by the emergency management systems in Europe.

The outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 propelled the creation, transmission, and consumption of false information – unverified claims, misleading statements, false rumours, conspiracy theories, and so on – all around the world.

Understanding communication - related vulnerability and resilience in crises