Key information

Date(s): 29 - 31 May 2023

Location: Pisa, Italy

Attendance type: Face-to-face

Description

The Evidence for Policy in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Summer School 2023 is a unique event where policymakers and scientists meet and together develop skills in using evidence for creating policy solutions - and leading thinkers and practitioners producing science and policy around risk reduction, preparedness and response engage closely with participants through participatory, interactive masterclasses. The objective of the School is for participants to gain new knowledge on how to better integrate scientific evidence into policy-making:

Scientists will learn how to better communicate and visualise their results, tackle uncertainty and align their projects with policy needs.
Policymakers will learn how research can support policy, which science can be relevant to their field, where to find it and how to interpret it, and what can be expected from researchers.

The Summer School will be held in Pisa (Italy) on 29 - 31 May 2023 and will gather 70 select participants from EU Member States, UCPM Participating States, international organisation partners, universities and academic institutes as well as civil society and private entities. It will be organised and hosted by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna research university, as part of the Civitas Soteria consortium (ICF, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and M.D.F training), on behalf of the European Commission. The event is a reproduction of the 2020 version of the School.

Follow the plenary sessions in live stream:

Livestream and recording of day 1 at ScuolaSantAnna YouTube account

Livestream and recording of day 3 at ScuolaSantAnna YouTube account

A total of six masterclass topics will be delivered during the School and each participant will have the possibility to attend two masterclasses:

Managing available information on climate and weather changes
How should the process of foresight in DRM be built so it is actionable and reliably understood by policymakers?
Can hybrid experts help bridge the science-policy gap?
Developing a behavioural and risk communication approach that is balanced and engages the public
Understanding the Role of International Disaster Law for Scientists and Policymakers
Understanding the Economics of disaster risk management and its valorisation

This activity has been funded via the European Commission’s framework contract for services No ECHO/B3/FWC/2022/SI2.2966. The opinions expressed are those of the contractor(s) and might not represent the Commission’s official position.

As a closed event, participants were nominated by EU Member States, UCPM Participating States and international organisation partners as well as selected via a limited call open from 28/03/2023 to 05/04/2023:

Call for Participants to limited number of seats (CLOSED)