DRIVER+ is delighted to announce that its Workshop 0 will be held from Monday, 26 February to Friday, 2 March 2018 in Józefów, Poland. This event is a 5 days long internal workshop focusing on the organisation of DRIVER+ Trials. Four series of trials will be organised...

The DRIVER+ consortium would like to warmly thank all the contributors to the Call for applications. 25 submissions were received ! We found some very good proposals, which might be able to support the project. The selection process consisted in a double blind review...

The IN-PREP project is an EU funded project whose purpose is to build a system that can better prepare civil protection practitioners in responding collaboratively to urgent natural and manmande Transboundary Crises. In order to do that, they need feedback from...

The Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission has recently published a new report on "Power grid recovery after natural hazard impact". This study analysed the effects of earthquakes, floods and space weather on the power grid in the European Union to...

The IFIP WG 5.11 Computers and the Environment is organising a session : "Towards More Interoperable, Reusable and Scalable Environmental Software" at the 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software "Modelling for Sustainable Food-Energy-Water...

The 6th European Civil Protection Forum will take place in Brussels on 5 and 6 March 2018. What is the purpose of this event? Every two years the European Commission (DG ECHO) organises the European Civil Protection Forum, aiming at bringing together representatives...

The 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018) will be held in Rochester (New York, US) from Sunday, May 20, 2018 to Wednesday, May 23, 2018. This event brings together researchers, students, and practitioners...

In the context of the DEFORM (Determine the global and financial cost of research misconduct) project, a web survey has been launched in order to record attitudes and perceptions of researchers on aspects of research misconduct. The project intends to reaching...

The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Center (DRMKC) has published the report "Science for Disaster Risk Management 2017: Knowing better and losing less" as a contribution to the Science and Technology Roadmap of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. This...

The 20th International Conference on Disaster and Emergency Management (ICDEM 2018) aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Disaster and...