Project description
Risk management for vulnerable populations in European cities
Disasters place immense strain on cities, countries, and the EU, exacerbating existing challenges and health inequalities. Vulnerable urban populations with limited access to health resources experience higher mortality rates and poorer long-term health outcomes during crises. The EU-funded Sonar-Cities project aims to bolster the resilience of European cities during health emergencies and disasters by developing a toolset for vulnerable populations, first responders, and decision-makers. The project will analyse past emergencies in six European cities to co-create a citizen-centred toolset that enhances preparedness, health literacy, crisis communication, and decision-making. Additionally, it will use an interactive Knowledge Platform to disseminate the toolset and establish a Social Sciences Emergency Support network to assist authorities.
Objective
Disasters, including health emergencies, pose enormous strains on response capacities of cities, countries, and the European Union, compounding existing climatic, political, economic, and social challenges. The risks and consequences of these emergencies reduce the health and well-being of Europe’s inhabitants. But their burdens are not evenly shouldered across all populations. Cities face huge challenges in preparing for and responding to disasters: urban publics not only suffer higher morbidity and mortality during such emergencies but resulting instability and response measures can exacerbate social and health inequalities. Vulnerable urban inhabitants are at risk during such crises for exclusion and heightened health consequences. With lower access to health information, resources, care and support, they tend to experience higher mortality and morbidity and longer-term reductions in health.
The goal of Sonar-Cities is to render Europe’s cities more resilient in health emergencies and disasters through the co-creation and implementation of a community-based, adapted toolset for people facing vulnerabilities, first responders, and decisionmakers. By strengthening inclusivity in risk management, we will enhance preparedness and reduce risks posed by these emergencies.
We will analyze One Health factors and consequences of past emergencies in 6 European cities, notably from the perspectives of people experiencing vulnerabilities. We use these analyses to co-create with publics at risk, first responders, and authorities a citizen-centered toolset, which will generate inclusive preparedness, improve health literacy and crisis communication, strengthen capacity and decision-making, and reduce risks of disasters/health emergencies in European cities. We will disseminate the toolset through our interactive Knowledge Platform and offer a Social Sciences Emergency Support network for authorities seeking social sciences assistance during health emergencies and disasters.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- medical and health sciences health sciences public health
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.3 - Civil Security for Society
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HORIZON.2.3.1 - Disaster-Resilient Societies
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL3-2023-DRS-01
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75724 Paris
France
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