Projecten
Vestigen van pan-Europese informatieruimte om de veiligheid van burgers te verbeteren. KU Leuven
In a disaster situation three things contribute to a success: having the right resource available in the shortest time, with the highest relevance and at the right location. Access to necessary information, communication with other rescuers and stakeholders as well as the availability of resources are key factors in minimizing damage and loss of life.
Large scale disasters and crisis situations increase the requirements on man and ...
Europese alliantie voor respons op virale uitbraken KU Leuven
COVID-19 has highlighted the need for EU preparedness towards the growing number of virus outbreaks. Research infrastructures are strategic tools for providing resources and access to technologies for research, promoting innovation and supporting public health actions, but their impact is limited when they operate individually. The European Viral Outbreak Research Alliance (EVORA) project brings together three RIs (EVA, ERINHA-ESFRI and ...
H2020: RIA : Search and Rescue Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Modellering van afhankelijkheden en kettingreacties voor het beheer van noodsituaties in crisissituaties Universiteit Gent
CASCEFF Modelleren van afhankelijkheden en trapsgewijze effecten voor het beheer van noodsituaties in crisissituaties EC FP7-SEC-2013-1 GA 607.665 Prof. Bart Merci
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Een holistisch, scenario-onafhankelijk, situatiebewust en begeleidend systeem voor het ondersteunen van de actieve evacuatieroute voor grote drukte. KU Leuven
The dynamic capture of situational awareness concerning crowds in specific mass gathering venues and its intelligent enablement into emergency management information systems, using smart communication devices and spaces is critical for achieving rapid, timely guidance and safe evacuation of people out of dangerous areas. Humans could be overwhelmed by fast changes of potentially dangerous incidents occurring at confined environments with ...
De sensorische ecologie van water: een multisensorische antropologische studie van buitenzwemmen in het noordpoolgebied KU Leuven
My project aims to re-think human-more-than-human interconnectedness by examining entangled relationships between arctic waters, the senses, and place. As a community of practice, outdoor swimming in Norway provides a unique lens through which to examine a sharing in the sensible grounded-in holistic planetary wellbeing. Following the global COVID-19 pandemic and wellbeing crisis, practitioners, tourism agencies, and popular media outlets ...
Europa, Covid-politiek en de (on)verwachte golf van nationalistische verhalen KU Leuven
In the face of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the unity of the European Union, at least at the beginning of the crisis, started to
crumble. The initial policies and the later vaccine-related management of the pandemic showed the role nationalism plays in the
context of public health responses to emergencies, including evacuations and quarantines, travel and socio-cultural constraints. While
many scholars have started to ...