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Tools, methods and training for Communities and Society to better prepare for a Crisis

Activity Code: SEC-2013.4.1-5
Project Reference: 608058
Coordinator:Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Description:

The overall aim of the TACTIC project is to increase preparedness to large-scale and cross-border disasters amongst communities and societies in Europe. To achieve this, TACTIC will consider studies on risk perception and preparedness (including good practices and preparedness programmes) in order to develop a participatory community preparedness audit enabling communities to assess, impacts in a multi-hazard context, their motivations and capacities to prepare for large-scale and/or cross-border disasters. This forms the basis for developing context-sensitive education and training strategies and practices that are embedded in an overarching long-term learning framework (including evaluation procedures) for increasing the overall prepares of communities and societies across Europe. Rather than taking a top-down approach to preparedness, TACTIC will pursue a collaborative project strategy by including different user and stakeholder groups in the development, testing and validation of tools and materials throughout the process of the project by conducting four case studies focusing on terrorism, floods, pandemics and earthquakes.

Partners:

  • Trilateral research & consulting LLP, United Kingdom
  • University of Northumbria at Newcastle, United Kingdom
  • European dynamics advanced systems of telecommunications, informatics and telematics SA, Greece
  • Instytut meteorologii I Gospodarki Wodnej- Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy, Poland
  • Middle east technical university, Turkey
  • Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie, Germany