- 1Dr. Georgiev Consulting GmbH, 83607 Holzkirchen, Germany (georgi@georgiev-consulting.de)
- 2Composite Information Technologies BV, 7546 KD Enschede, The Netherlands (m.aksit.alt@gmail.com)
- 3Department of Information and Computing Systems and Management, West Ukrainian National University, 46009 Ternopil, Ukraine (as@wunu.edu.ua)
- 4Department of Law and Management in the Field of Civil Protection, Lviv State University of Life Safety, 79000 Lviv, Ukraine (zachko@ukr.net)
- 5Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria (zafirov@big97.com)
- 6Institute of Reliable Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics, Hochschule Offenburg, 77652 Offenburg, Germany (axel.sikora@hs-offenburg.de)
During the last 150 years the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere has increased by 1,3 °C, leading to a significant increase in extreme environmental events and disasters in our densely populated areas. In addition, anthropogenic disasters from large-scale accidents or warfare are on an unfortunate rise.
The ERASMUS+ project SUDEM (2023-1-BG01-KA220-HED-000159479) is establishing and validating a novel interdisciplinary higher education knowledge transfer model and curriculum, with focus on the digitalisation of the overall disaster and emergency handling lifecycle. The international team embeds principles of practice and education from all relevant domains, incl. risk and disaster monitoring and management, decision-making support, disaster handling management, AI, IoT, Data Science, remote sensing (satellites and drones) and data fusion, data management.
SUDEM seeks to prepare students with the skills required to address the efficient management of relevant extreme events’ and disasters’ consequences, and improve the emergency processes. The overarching goal is Europe to create a pool of disaster management experts with an adequately intensive focus on digital tools, through which the disaster-caused life and infrastructure losses to significantly decrease in the long-term perspective.
The project unites a consortium of leading European Higher Education and Research organisations, leveraging international collaboration to align academic programs with the demands of the optimal disaster management, incl. the decision-making support. SUDEM emphasises creating adaptable and accessible educational modules that can be implemented across diverse Higher Education and Life-Long Learning organisations.
This paper represents the results of the SUDEM Foresight study - a core project methodology element, enabling the elaboration and delivery of an efficient response to the identified demands and challenges, potential solutions, a relevant system architecture, and an optimal future development scenario incl. education, process management, policy, and finally a unique knowledge and training package as a core project result.
How to cite: Georgiev, G., Aksit, M., Sachenko, A., Bykovyy, P., Zachko, O., Kobylkin, D., Zafirov, D., and Sikora, A.: A Foresight study on Sustainable Disaster and Emergency Management SUDEM processes digitalisation: the European Higher Education and Life-Long Learning perspective, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-12295, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12295, 2025.
