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BRIdges the GAp for Innovations in Disaster resilience (BRIGAID)
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,
Recent studies from the IPCC indicate that Europe is particularly prone to increased risks of river and coastal floods, droughts resulting in water restrictions and damages from extreme weather such as heat events and wildfires. Evaluations also show a huge potential to reduce these risks with novel adaptation strategies. Researchers, innovators and incubators develop innovative products and servi ...
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NAture Insurance value: Assessment and Demonstration (NAIAD)
Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,
NAIAD aims to operationalise the insurance value of ecosystems to reduce the human and economic cost of risks associated with water (floods and drought) by developing and testing - with key insurers and municipalities - the concepts, tools, applications and instruments (business models) necessary for its mainstreaming. We will do this in detail for 8 demonstration sites (DEMOs) throughout Europe a ...
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European Disasters in Urban centres: a Culture Expert Network (3C – Cities, Cultures, Catastrophes) (EDUCEN)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,
EDUCEN is a coordination and support action that will work on the complex interplay between culture(s) and disaster risk reduction, above all in the context of cities, to allow in particular formal and informal emergency responders, risk managers, the military, urban planners and planners at regional and national level to be better equipped to deal with elements of culture, and as a result to ensu ...
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