Thanks to Claudio De Angelis and Stefano Marsella from CNVVF, the STORM project team had the chance to visit to coordination office where all the intervention in the earthquake crater are coordinated involving all agents from the fire fighters, civil protection, cultural heritage authorities and …
Archaeological and historic sites all over Europe are vulnerable to damage and destruction from a number of natural and human actions. Sparta, University of Salford and Mellor Archaeological Trust deploy Weather Stations and Sensors based IoT (Internet of Things) technologies to monitor environmental changes and their impact on historic structures, chosen as a pilot site in United Kingdom for project STORM. After …
The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre is glad to announce that the registration to the DRMKC 2nd Annual Scientific Seminar is now open and will close on 18th February . The seminar will be hosted by the Italian Department of Civil Protection in Rome, from 9th to 10th of March: cover the progress made by the DRMKC since its launch in September 2015 gather early input to the upcoming 2018-2019 DRMKC Action Plan address challenges for policy and …
The STORM project will participate at the fourth networking session for EC projects (6 March 2017, Padova – Italy). The event, organised in cooperation with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, aims to make a plan and to define joint recommendations to be plugged into the programme of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018. …
On December 14th Mrs. Hannah Fluck, PhD, FSA (Historic Environment Intelligence Officer (Environmental Impacts), Historic Environment Intelligence Team, Strategic Planning and Management Department) has been interviewed by a representative of STORM project. The main purpose of the interview was to understand the current English situation in the cultural heritage at risk due to climate changes management. Mrs. Hannah Fluck provided …
Tróia Pilot Site Meeting was a huge success with almost 50 attendees, from the different organizations and countries listed in the project, Italy, United Kingdom, Turkey, Greece and also Germany (ex. University of Stuttgart), with a strong representation of the Portuguese partners, since it was held in Portugal. Besides all the partners, technical and pilot sites, there was also stakeholders …
After successful session and great attendance at Troia STORM meeting of EU partners from Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Italy and UK the next meeting will be held at UK pilot site in Mellor near Manchester. STORM partners will gather on the 15th and 16th December in Roman Lakes, Stockport to give their input and ideas for Mellor Heritage. Meantime, UK Node …
On November 17th was held in Rome the workshop “SMEM2016”, organized by the CNVVF. The workshop “SMEM: expectation and challenges” on the use of social networks and social media in emergency took place at the Fire Academy (Istituto Superiore Antincendi) in Rome. The workshop is co-funded by the EU R&D projects IDIRA and AF3, participated by the Ministero dell’Interno, Dipartimento dei …
On Tuesday, October 18, the Italian National Corps of Firemen organizes meetings with citizens and with schools. Starting from the historical memory of what happened, the aim is to learn more about the disasters that increasingly occur on the territory, so to create a collective consciousness of self-protection and proper behaviour in such situations. The day opens at 9:00 am …
STORM project aims to examine security concerns and risks related to cultural heritage sites and also focuses on the resilience and vulnerability to extreme events. Jörn Birkmann, Director of the Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning of the University of Stuttgart – Partner of the STORM projects), together with other colleagues, has published through the NATURE weekly journal (28 September …