New Horizon Europe Project set to improve climate disaster risk management across multiple civil authorities and first responders in Europe
Contacts:
Project Co-ordinator: Max Steinhausen
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Max.steinhausen@tu-braunschweig.de
Project Communications Lead: Tracy Irvine
Oasis Hub Ltd
tracy.irvine@oasishub.io
52°North’s Communications Lead: Ann Hitchcock
a.hitchcock@52north.org
What: DIRECTED Project Launch
Where: Braunschweig, Germany
When: 29th & 30th November, 2022
Summary points:
- €5.2 Million Horizon Europe Project (DIRECTED) aims to improve the interoperability of multiple European climate risk assessment and planning tools and bring them together in a manageable system (a data fabric) that enables better disaster risk assessment and management by European disaster protection authorities and first responders
- Using ‘Real World Labs’ to critically analyse and improve current work-flows and governance linked to disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction
- Promoting a multi-risk perspective on climate change adaptation by considering the impacts of floods, droughts, heatwaves, forest fires and storms
