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.
