5th Session of Disaster Law Course for Public and Red Cross Officials

MAIN ORGANIZER(S): INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES - LUOGO: Sanremo (Italia) - DATA: 23-27 novembre

This course, co-convened by the IFRC and the United Nations Development Programme and hosted by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, is directed at senior governmental officials and parliamentarians with responsibility for legislative issues involved in disaster management, as well as senior representatives of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and UNDP field personnel.

UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

ORGANIZZATORE: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION - LUOGO: GINEVRA - DATA: 27-29 GEN 2016

The conference will bring together the full diversity of the science and technology community, policy makers, practitioners and researchers from all geographical regions, at local, national, regional and international levels to discuss how the science and technology community will best support the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

Workshop 'Soccorso, sicurezza ed evoluzione tecnologica'

“Porte aperte alla ricerca, alla sperimentazione e all’applicazione di tecnologie innovative a supporto della sicurezza del Vigile del Fuoco”.
Con queste parole il Capo del Corpo ing. Gioacchino Giomi ha concluso la due giorni di lavoro e di incontro tra il mondo accademico delle università e della ricerca, delle aziende produttrici e il Corpo Nazionale, tenutosi presso l’Istituto Superiore Antincendi, il 15 e 16 ottobre.

Workshop 'Soccorso, sicurezza ed evoluzione tecnologica'

Il Dipartimento dei Vigili del Fuoco, Soccoso Pubblico e Difesa Civile organizza, nei giorni 15 e 16 ottobre 2015, un workshop presso l'Istituto Superiore Antincendi su temi inerenti il soccorso e l'evoluzione tecnologica dei materiali, dei mezzi, delle attrezzature, dei dispositivi individuali e dell'equipaggiamento, anche alla luce delle accresciute esigenze tecniche e della costante e continua evoluzione tecnologica e normativa.

Fire Aid International Development and Humanitarian Aid Conference 2015

ORGANIZZATORE: Fire Aid - LUOGO: London Fire Brigade Headquarters, Union Street, Southwark, London - United Kingdom (London) - DATA:22 Oct 2015


The UKFRS IDHA conference, hosted by London Fire Brigade, is a unique annual event intended to provide a platform to highlight and showcase the diverse range of development and humanitarian aid activities coordinated and delivered by a variety of UK fire and rescue services, charities, NGO's and individual efforts throughout the world.  The UKFRS is actively involved in over 30 countries worldwide delivering a wide variety of projects yet still there is little awareness and recognition of the range and impact of numerous successful projects. 

13th European Week of Regions and Cities

ORGANIZZATORI: Committee of the Regions (CoR); European Commission (EC) - LUOGO:Belgium (Brussels) - DATA:12-15 Oct 2015

The Open Days 2015 will be a perfect forum for national and regional managing authorities, final beneficiaries and EU institutions to exchange information and facilitate networking on novel approaches for implementing the funds. 

With the headline of 'Europe's regions and cities: partners for investment and growth' 2015 will be structured around three thematic priorities: 



Modernising Europe: The regions in the energy Union and the single digital market
Regions open for business: SME development, innovation and job creation
Places and spaces: Urban and rural development; urban-rural integration

EU actions in the urban areas have played a key role in using the potential in cities for innovation and new economic activities, addressing acute problems of social cohesion often arising in deprived urban areas and promoting greater balance in the national and European urban network. This sub-theme will focus on how EU regional and urban programmes can promote more balanced territorial development, how to promote rural competitiveness and reduce the rural-urban drift of population. The special challenge of border cities and border rural hinterlands will be addressed under this theme.

Reconstruction and Recovery in Urban Contexts - 7th International i-Rec Conference and Student Competition

MAIN ORGANIZER(S): University College of London - LUOGO: London - DATA: 6-7 LUGLIO

Disasters and crises are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity in urban areas. Crises occurring in the urban context pose particular challenges for recovery and reconstruction, due in part to intense social inequalities, complex infrastructure and governance systems, competing agendas for access to land, density of the built environment and the numbers of people affected. Cities can be seen as both part of the cause that create the crisis, and also part of the solution. Urban crises can be brought on by inter-related factors, such as chronic vulnerability conditions that lead to small-scale disasters, by natural hazards and conflict occurring in densely populated areas that lead to large scale disasters, when internally displaced people and refugees seek refuge in urban areas, and by the impacts from climate change.

Rebuild By Design Munich: Symposium and Exhibition

ORGANIZZATORE: Technische Universität München (TUM) - LUOGO: Germany (Munich) - DATA:18 Jun 2015

Rebuild By Design Munich approaches the topic of a knowledge-based approach to planning and designing resilient cities and architecture in an interdisciplinary way by presenting and discussing core aims, facts, and terms. The aims of the exhibition and symposium are: 



to present current planning and design initiatives that deal with rebuilding after disaster, adaptation, and "building back better";
to illustrate international case studies that indicate why "context matters";
and to discuss the core themes of risk reduction, climate adaptation, resilience and vulnerability.

Reconstruction and recovery in urban contexts

ORGANIZZATORE: University College London (UCL) - LUOGO: United Kingdom (London) - DATA:06-08 Jul 2015


7th International i-Rec Conference and Student Competition

Disasters and crises are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity in urban areas. Crises occurring in the urban context pose particular challenges for recovery and reconstruction, due in part to intense social inequalities, complex infrastructure and governance systems, competing agendas for access to land, density of the built environment and the numbers of people affected. Cities can be seen as both part of the cause that create the crisis, and also part of the solution. Urban crises can be brought on by inter-related factors, such as chronic vulnerability conditions that lead to small-scale disasters, by natural hazards and conflict occurring in densely populated areas that lead to large scale disasters, when internally displaced people and refugees seek refuge in urban areas, and by the impacts from climate change.

Interdisciplinary international workshop on RISK information management, risk models and applications (RIMMA2016)

ORGANIZZATORE: German National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) - LUOGO: Germany (Berlin) - DATA: 27-29 Jun 2016


This international interdisciplinary CODATA workshop on risk information management, risk models, and applications will enable sharing of best practices as well as giving space for discussing methodological problems in risk modeling from the information systems point of view for all phases of the disaster cycle.