Risk training strategy for schools : the EDURISK project for the Bologna area
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Awareness of risk and the implementation of individual and collective mitigating actions is a cultural problem. It requires the development of educational processes aimed at gaining a complete understanding of the personal consequences and the interactions between a physical or geological phenomenon such as an earthquake and the human environment affected by it.
To this purpose, the EDURISK project (Earthquake Education : a journey for risk reduction) has been devised and implemented since 2002. A number of educational initiatives on risk mitigation have been undertaken in several Italian schools, with the participation of around 500 teachers and 15,000 students.
Training courses, some of them also available as correspondence courses, have also been developed for teachers in addition to classroom activities based on a multidisciplinary approach, which takes into account the specific environment of each school and its knowledge of the local environment’s physical, historic and cultural characteristics.
Newsletter 7 on Workshop 6: Risk management and training
