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Courses will be held in different locations, including each of the pilot study areas. During these intensive courses, not only senior scientists and young researchers, but also local stakeholders, administration officers and representatives from the civil protection are invited to participate. These will consider the legitimate interests of the people involved that are directly affected by the risk settings and the different risk cultures in the member states. A number of courses are offered to all ESR/ERs:

Some of the courses will also be available in on-line form, allowing ESR/ERs to access these materials later on in their work. Certificates will be awarded and the courses are credited in the ECTS system.

Apart from the Network courses also a number of specialized courses can be selected by individual ESRs. These are courses offered by the Network partners for their own students or by other organizations and in which the ESRs can participate to enhance their capacity in a particular field.

Professional skills courses

These courses are intended to train the ERS in the skills required as young researcher to increase their professional skills, related to research planning, research ethics, valorization, dissemination and project management.

For courses that have taken place you can access the training materials by clicking on the course title.

Code

Name

Description of contents

Partners

Time & Place

PS- 01

Research work plan development and scientific writing

Literature review, critical reading, reviewing and summarizing publications, writing abstracts, formulating research questions, plagiarism, structuring a scientific paper, generation of illustrations).

ITC,

IRM

September 2011,

Poland

PS-02

Research ethics

Scientific attitude, professional leadership, role in civil society scientist, research collaboration, example function of scientists, cultural sensitivities and gender.

ITC

January, 2012

The Netherlands

PS-03

Valorization of scientific results

Societal and economic spin-off of research; examples of successful valorisation by associate partners from private sector; patents; Intellectual Property Rights; establishing an SME. Several of the partners from the private sector will be the resource persons in this course.

R&D,

GEOMER

AS,

June 2012, Italy

PS-04

Dissemination of scientific results to the public

How to communicate the results through popular publications; scientific journalism; posters with project information; press contacts; use of internet, summarizing. 

TUD,


September 2012, Romania

PS-05

Writing research grant proposals

Finding out grant opportunities; requirements for research grants; presenting with curriculum vitae; writing personal career development plans.

TUDO


September 2012, Romania

PS-06

Project management

Budgeting and financial administration, planning, monitoring and evaluation. This course will be given by a senior project manager.

TUDO

April 2014,

Switzerland


Technical skills courses

These courses are intended to train the ERS in the technical skills related to the research theme: changing hydro-meteorological risk, probabilistic multi-hazard risk assessment, and development of web-based tools for risk management.

For courses that have taken place you can access the training materials by clicking on the course title.

Code

Name

Description of contents

 Partners

Time

TS- 01

Probabilistic risk assessment

Basics of probabilistic modelling; probability theory; uncertainty, use of historic events in stochastic modelling; probabilistic modelling for different types of hazards; expressing uncertainty of vulnerability; combining hazard and vulnerability scenarios. Maximum Probable Loss, Less Exceedance Curves. This course specifically relates to WP 1, 2 and 3.

CNR, ERN, CNRS

September 2011,

Poland

 TS-01B Multi-hazard risk assessment  Course on the use og GIS for quantitative multi-hazard risk assessment using a case study from the Nocera area in Italy; use of Spatial Multi-Criteria evaluation for qualitative risk assessment; Decision Support Systems; Expert seminar with presentation on climate change and risk management from the Netherlands.  ITC  January 2012, Netherlands

TS-02

Monitoring and prediction of environmental changes.

Use of models for climate change prediction; monitoring of environmental changes, hazard processes; extraction of socio-economic parameters using multi-temporal remote sensing data combined with ancillary data; prediction of future land use changes uses modelling approaches. Course specifically relates to WP 1, and 2.

IIASA, UNIVIE,

CCRM

September 2012, Romania

TS-03

Web-GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructure

Definition of user groups; strategic use cases for production use; testing and validation; Use of recognized open standards (both in design and documentation); open, modular, interoperable and open-source architecture; data repository and distribution requirements; definition of service types to support risk assessment applications; Open Source software tools for Web-GIS; This course specifically relates to the research of WP 3, 4 and 5.

PLUS,

ITC,

GEOMER

November 2012, Germany

TS-04

Tools for risk Management

This course presents a number of examples of the use of decision support systems, used in risk management, with emphasis on preparedness planning and early warning. This course specifically relates to WP 4 and 5

UNIL,

TUD

AS

June 2013, France

TS-05

Use of risk information in Spatial Planning

Principles of spatial planning; stakeholder analysis; Environmental Impact Assessment; Strategic Environmental Assessment; Use of Spatial Multi Criteria Evaluation. This course specifically relates to WP 2 and 4.

IRM, TUDO, R&D

September 2013: Italy


Topical workshops

A topical workshop is a meeting focusing on one of the topics of the Network in which the ESR/ERs and all partners (full partners and associated partners from private sector) present their results and discuss the relationships between the different components of the project.

For workshops that have taken place you can access the training materials by clicking on the course title.

Code

Name

Description of contents

Partners

Time

WS- 01

Risk governance implications of changing risks

Meeting with stakeholder representatives during which they indicate the expectations of the project, and presentation of the possible implications of environmental changes to risk governance. Focusing on the relation between changes in risk governance, changes in risk management, and requirements for risk information

TUD

TUDO

PC-FVG

June 2012, Italy

WS-02

Environmental changes

During this workshop the methods for analyzing the possible impacts of climate change and environmental change are presented and discussed and their implications to hazard assessment and land use scenarios.

UNIVIE,

IIASA

June 2013, France

WS-03

Modelling changes in hazard and risk

During this workshop the methods for probabilistic hazard and risk assessment are presented and discussed, focusing on the integration of future environmental changes and their possible impacts. The representation of uncertainty of temporal and spatial probability, as well as vulnerability is an important component of this workshop.

IGRAC

ITC,

CNRS,

June 2013,

France

WS-04

Changes in Risk Management

This course presents a number of examples of the use of decision support systems, used in risk management, with emphasis on preparedness planning and early warning. This course specifically relates to WP 4 and 5

UNIL

April 2014

Switzerland

WS-05

Web-based platform

During this workshop the results for WP4 are presented and discussed. ESRs/ERs and partners involved in the development of the internet-based tools for risk management will present the applications for spatial planning and emergency preparedness.

PLUS,

ITC,

CNRS

TUD

September 2013,

Italy