Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RESILIAGE (Advancing holistic understanding of community RESILIence and heritAGE drivers through community-based methodologies)
Reporting period: 2023-09-01 to 2025-02-28
RESILIAGE’s mission is to provide novel knowledge and impactful solutions for exploiting Europe´s hidden and unused resource: community resilience. Its overall goal is to prevent and mitigate the effects of disasters and climate change-related events by enabling critical thinking by framing a holistic approach to better understand citizens’ response to disasters, and by exploring heritage as a valuable resource for Disaster Risk Reduction. By establishing five COmmunity REsilience (CORE) labs across Europe as real multi-risk large-scale scenarios and the proactive involvement of all the relevant stakeholders, RESILIAGE will co-shape, develop and validate a set of digital tools and soft solutions to support first responders and public authorities, empower citizens, share more accurate and accessible information before, during and after a natural and man-made hazard or crisis.
Through engagement with multiple local stakeholders, RESILIAGE will enable a step-change in Disaster Risk Management and in how research and practice address variations in societal aspects such as culture, risk awareness, inclusion, socio-economic and geographical conditions. It aims to co-create, with community–based methodologies, sustainable and resilient communities where people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives can become more aware of risks, well-informed, connected, feel safe and better prepared to cope with recovery. Local–based analysis and tailored solutions are driven by a strategic framework for systemic innovation aimed at achieving effective and durable results. Tools will be integrated into a digital open platform, the Resource Ecosystem for Community Resilience (RECORE). Results will feed into RESILIAGE’s guidelines and policy recommendations to enhance preparedness plans, the SENDAI framework and strategies for Climate Change Adaptation to include and leverage Heritage as a resilience' resource
Through engagement with multiple local stakeholders, RESILIAGE will enable a step-change in Disaster Risk Management and in how research and practice address variations in societal aspects such as culture, risk awareness, inclusion, socio-economic and geographical conditions. It aims to co-create, with community–based methodologies, sustainable and resilient communities where people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives can become more aware of risks, well-informed, connected, feel safe and better prepared to cope with recovery. Local–based analysis and tailored solutions are driven by a strategic framework for systemic innovation aimed at achieving effective and durable results. Tools will be integrated into a digital open platform, the Resource Ecosystem for Community Resilience (RECORE). Results will feed into RESILIAGE’s guidelines and policy recommendations to enhance preparedness plans, the SENDAI framework and strategies for Climate Change Adaptation to include and leverage Heritage as a resilience' resource
In the first 18 months, the results of the action have been continuously developed to meet the RESILIAGE objectives. Activities laid the foundation for the general research framework by producing in-depth insights and novel knowledge. RESILIAGE established the five CORE labs by identifying extensive local stakeholder networks for each of them, relevant for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management. It engaged them in the project’s activities by undertaking collaborative tailored analysis. These established networks have been activated to include local authorities, policy makers, first responders, civil society associations and knowledge and heritage organisations, in an all-society commitment to face climate change issues and natural hazards by enhancing the dialogue at the local level. By considering its multi-scale endangered sites, RESILIAGE has developed a multidimensional, data–driven knowledge with a holistic and systemic approach to DRM, through desk research and field analyses in the 5 CORE labs. Capitalising on its scientific scoping review, previous projects’ results and policy surveys, it has focused on the CORE labs’ large-scale multi-risk scenarios. These European crisis scenarios with their cultural, environmental and societal diversities, have been explored to assess risk awareness and communication gaps as well as to investigate and co-map human factors, user needs, and tangible and intangible heritage as drivers for community resilience. According to the RESILIAGE approach on diversities and variations in society, analyses have included vulnerable groups. Lessons Learned have been extracted concerning diverse phases of DRM due to natural hazards and climate change crises and linked to strategies identified by RESILIAGE for systemic and durable resilience enhancement. Cross-cutting aspects include community cultural practices, plans and policies for enhancing preparedness.
While building and operationalising the knowledge baseline, RESILIAGE Data Lake was created to store and integrate datasets and information. The architecture of the RESILIAGE Resource Ecosystem for Community Resilience was designed to integrate sets of digital tools and host all tools, solutions, plans and guidelines being developed by RESILIAGE. Actionable knowledge and capacity-building activities have been continuously developed, and two Summer School editions have been accomplished.
While building and operationalising the knowledge baseline, RESILIAGE Data Lake was created to store and integrate datasets and information. The architecture of the RESILIAGE Resource Ecosystem for Community Resilience was designed to integrate sets of digital tools and host all tools, solutions, plans and guidelines being developed by RESILIAGE. Actionable knowledge and capacity-building activities have been continuously developed, and two Summer School editions have been accomplished.
To improve all-in-society preparedness and mitigate the effects of climate crisis and recurring disaster events, RESILIAGE implements bottom-up processes via community-based methodologies, also leveraging heritage as a valuable resource for societal resilience. It engages all relevant local stakeholders in collaborative analyses of past crises affecting their sites, working with experts to consider gaps, challenges and drivers of community resilience, as well as in co-shaping and co-creating tools and solutions to enhance preparedness plans and to foster collaboration and communication at the local level for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Through its holistic and systemic approach and wide-ranging field activities, RESILIAGE gathers novel information on a wide range of diverse aspects of human behaviours, both individual and collective and gender–related, including socio-economic and environmental factors, psychological reactions and PTSD, historical and cultural backgrounds, and communication and social media issues. These aspects are simultaneously analysed, collected, and finalised, also integrating other external data via the Resource Ecosystem platform. This approach targets all relevant stakeholders of DRM in all its phases. With this data-driven approach, RESILIAGE is building its digital and non-digital tools to address different purposes by considering the phase of DRM, the target group, and the systemic strategy. They are conceived to be easily understandable by users, including vulnerable groups, through fully visual information. They are embedded in a unified open digital environment that makes all resources readily available. By implementing its human-centred approach, RESILIAGE also provides several targeted capacity-building initiatives. With an expanded network across Europe and beyond, via Associated CORE labs, RESILIAGE is enabling extensive international cooperation for DRR.
Through its holistic and systemic approach and wide-ranging field activities, RESILIAGE gathers novel information on a wide range of diverse aspects of human behaviours, both individual and collective and gender–related, including socio-economic and environmental factors, psychological reactions and PTSD, historical and cultural backgrounds, and communication and social media issues. These aspects are simultaneously analysed, collected, and finalised, also integrating other external data via the Resource Ecosystem platform. This approach targets all relevant stakeholders of DRM in all its phases. With this data-driven approach, RESILIAGE is building its digital and non-digital tools to address different purposes by considering the phase of DRM, the target group, and the systemic strategy. They are conceived to be easily understandable by users, including vulnerable groups, through fully visual information. They are embedded in a unified open digital environment that makes all resources readily available. By implementing its human-centred approach, RESILIAGE also provides several targeted capacity-building initiatives. With an expanded network across Europe and beyond, via Associated CORE labs, RESILIAGE is enabling extensive international cooperation for DRR.