New DCNA-project: ScubaPOIs
DCNA is part of the new FFG-funded research project ScubaPOIs, focused on underwarter navigation for divers.
Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) acts as a link between scientific research and practitioners in crisis and disaster management. Through knowledge and technology transfer, findings from basic research are implemented and directed to those interested in security and disaster research in Austria and beyond.
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DCNA is part of the new FFG-funded research project ScubaPOIs, focused on underwarter navigation for divers.
We are pleased to announce that the University of Vienna is now part of the DCNA network as an ordinary member. The university has been dealing with the subject areas of civil defense and disaster control, risk governance, risk perception and communication and risk-based disaster management from a wide range of disciplines (including economics, law, social and natural sciences) for many decades.
CERTificate For Integrated Emergency Response (CERTIFIER) aims to improve the integration of informal offers of help into crisis and disaster management by developing a digital competency certificate for volunteers.
We are pleased to welcome FH OÖ Studienbetriebs GmbH (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria) as a new ordinary member of Disaster Competence Network Austria.
In order to optimally deal with crises and emergencies, companies must be well prepared for all risks. It is also very important to alert the right people quickly and reliably. safeREACH equips companies, authorities and institutions worldwide with modern tools so that company values and lives can be protected even better.
Download now for free: The proceedings of Fachtagung Katastrophenforschung 2023 (our disaster research conference #fkf23) include the abstracts of all presentations from the various sessions and the posters from the poster session. Our thanks go to the authors for their insightful and multifaceted contributions and we are already looking forward to the next DCNA conference!
Between March 2021 and September 2023, Florentin Weiss was a DCNA Young Scientist and was funded for his chemistry doctorate at the University of Innsbruck. After successfully completing his studies, he has now started his career in the chemical industry. In this interview, he tells us, among other things, how he benefited from the Young Scientists program.
Since the beginning of October 2023, DCNA has been leading a new research project funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund: VULKANO aims to determine the extent to which Austrian communities take vulnerable groups into account when drawing up emergency and disaster plans.