1,1,1,1,2,2,4,5,- 1Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Natural Hazards, Oslo, Norway (graham.gilbert@ngi.no)
- 2Snow and Ice Research Centre – National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Nagaoka, Japan
- 3Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery – Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
- 4Department of Civil Engineering – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
- 5Landslide Research Center – Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Daejeon, South Korea
- 6Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Gangneung–Wonju National University (GWNU), Gangneung, South Korea
The GEOMME partnership for Geohazard Mitigation, Management, and Education is an international collaboration between research institutes and universities in Norway, Japan, and South Korea. The partnership aim has been to enhance resilience to climate-driven geohazards through collaborative research and education. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway (pnr 322469) with a duration from September 2021 to December 2026. A main objective of GEOMME has been to initiate collaborative activities that improve the collective ability of the partner countries and institutes to respond to current and emerging disaster risk management challenges to climate-driven geohazards through knowledge exchange and research-based education.
Over the past four-years, the GEOMME partners have developed and hosted four education packages focused on different aspects of climate-driven hazard and risk management. The education packages were structured as modular courses, addressing: (i) geohazards and risk in a changing climate (hosted in Tromsø, Norway in 2022), (ii) large-scale hazard and risk assessment (hosted in Niigata, Japan in 2023), (iii) monitoring, modelling, and early warning (hosted in Daejeon, South Korea in 2024), and (iv) sustainable and nature-based mitigation strategies (hosted in Florence, Italy in 2025).
Each education package consisted of a digital pre-study module followed by a two-week intensive course. The pre-study modules were used as a level-setting tool for participants with different academic backgrounds prior to attending the courses. The intensive courses combined field- and research-based training and scenario-driven learning. A key objective of the in-person activities was to bring together an international group of students, practitioners, researchers, and educators.
The aim of this contribution is to: (i) share the developed educational material and present the GEOMME partnership as a potential model for international, research-based geoscience education and (ii) reflect on key lessons learned related to interdisciplinary teaching and the transferability of this approach to other contexts.
How to cite: Gilbert, G. L., Capobianco, V., Piciullo, L., Issler, D., Yamaguchi, S., Ito, Y., Tanabe, T., Nishii, R., Niiya, H., Kwon, T.-H., Park, J.-Y., and Yune, C.-Y.: Educating for Climate-Driven Geohazard Mitigation and Management – Experience from the GEOMME International Partnership in Norway, South Korea, and Japan, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-18278, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-18278, 2026.
