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The conference aims to mobilise the scientific community to critically examine the surge of protection and support efforts during the past year and assess ways forward for enhanced long-term support and post-conflict reconstruction.

For over a decade, we’ve been hit by one crisis after another, from financial meltdowns to the COVID-19 pandemic, devastating natural disasters fueled by climate change, and geopolitical tensions like Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine. How to better prepare, respond and recover from crises that escalate fast and reach an international or even global dimension? In … Read more

This event will particularly look into issues of trust between citizens and public institutions. It will discuss why trust in turbulent times of crisis is such an essential principle, how to build it and when, who we trust and why, and who we should trust. It will explore how social sciences, local-embedded knowledge and communities’ perspectives are brought in advising into strategic crisis management.  

This meeting will feature a presentation of our reports on strategic crisis management in Europe, and of the outcomes of the study ‘Social approach to the transition to smart cities’.

How do we care for each other, build resilience and solidarity in a world in crisis?

The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, the war in Ukraine, refugee crises, inflation… these crises and more have recently dominated headlines. They cross national borders and sectors, and are complex and long-term in nature. Evidence shows that the cascading and rippling effects of crises extend to all parts of our society and the natural environment.  

Handover of the SAPEA evidence review report, the GCSA scientific opinion and the EGE statement on Strategic Crisis Management in the EU to Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and Commissioner Janez Lenarčič

What is the best response to the contagion of a novel virus? How can the next pandemic be avoided? Is it feasible to halt global warming? And how can we become resilient to more extreme weather events? These are all questions that are fundament to academic disaster studies, but can now be read in the newspapers or heard on the news almost on a daily basis. These questions can only be answered with an inter-disciplinary lens.