US5 | Bridging Policy and Science for EU Disaster Preparedness
EDI
Bridging Policy and Science for EU Disaster Preparedness
Convener: Juha-Pekka Jäpölä | Co-conveners: Giuliana Urso, Simon Clark
Programme
| Mon, 28 Apr, 08:30–10:15 (CEST)
 
Room E1
Programme
Mon, 08:30
Vimeo: US5 – Bridging Policy and Science for EU Disaster Preparedness
One of the greatest risks to our security is the impact of climate change. Extreme weather continues to ravage ever greater areas of Europe through floods, fires and droughts, throughout the year and across the European Union. The EU's new strategic agenda for 2024-2029 states that it will strengthen its resilience, preparedness, crisis prevention and response capacities in an all-hazards and whole-of-society approach to protect its citizens and societies against different crises, including disasters.

The EU funds research & innovation through Horizon Europe projects but also with multiple other instruments and channels. The needs of the EU, reflecting those of its Member States, for scientific output to address and support disaster risk reduction policy, prevention & preparedness capacity-building, and emergency operations are continuous. These gaps are reflected in policy or operational documentation, such as the political guidelines for the next European Commission 2024-2029 and the Union's Disaster Resilience Goals. Among others, we should look at all facets of crisis and disaster management, along community resilience building.

This session aims to create a dialogue between EU-wide policy-based scientific needs for Disaster Resilience and the scientific community of the EGU. It will inform the scientific community how to interpret the latest policy documentation in orienting their research and funnel their planning and output back to the EU's needs to have an impact and added value for society. The European Commission will be represented by the DG for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations as well as DG Joint Research Centre.


All opinions, statements, and questions, either from the panel or the audience, are the speakers’ own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), our conference organizer Copernicus or the Austria Center Vienna, but have been shared here in the name of supporting open, transparent, and unedited discussion on this topic.

More concretely, the session will include:

  1. An interactive part to kickstart views on the interplay between the EU and disaster preparedness research.
  2. Insights from the fresh EU Preparedness Union Strategy and its take on research & innovation.
  3. Overview of how the EGU engages with policy and an introduction into the new Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force.
  4. Good practices from the Commission’s Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC): how science follows policy needs as well as meets and informs policy.
  5. Focus on the European Climate Risk Assessment’s (EUCRA) scientific methodology and how 100 scientific authors were gathered from across Europe to identify and analyse both the risks and the policies addressing those risks.
  6. Success stories from the EUMA project on integrating policy needs with the build-up of a European Master's Programme in Disaster Risk Management.

Session assets

Session materials

Programme: Mon, 28 Apr, 08:30–10:15 | Room E1

Chairpersons: Juha-Pekka Jäpölä, Chloe Hill
08:30–08:35
5-minute convener introduction
08:35–09:15
Warm-up and interactive part
09:15–09:45
Interplay between the EU and disaster preparedness research
09:45–10:15
Discussion

Speakers

  • Chloe Hill, European Geosciences Union, Germany
  • Andrea Toreti, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy
  • Julie Berckmans, European Environment Agency, Denmark
  • Annika Fröwis, University of Vienna, Austria