BBK Congress ‘Research for Civil Protection’

12. Feb 2025 | General

Resilience, crisis management and communication, technological innovations and international cooperation – these were the topics discussed by over 900 participants from science, research, administration and practice at the ‘Research for Civil Protection 2025’...

Special tools in special circumstances – about the connection between art and crisis, creativity and disaster

11. Feb 2025 | General

Franziskus Bayer and Margit Schild Franziskus Bayer, an expert in organisational resilience and crisis management and DKKV member, and artist/engineer Dr Margit Schild have been working together since summer 2024 on the interfaces between art and crisis, creativity...

Earthquake off the coast of Santorini

7. Feb 2025 | Earthquakes, General

The Greek island of Santorini in the Mediterranean has been hit by a series of earthquakes for almost two weeks with around 6400 tremors so far. The strongest quake to date occurred on Wednesday evening (5 February 2025) and reached a magnitude of 5.2 (Alexandridi,...

Webinars on best practices in dealing with forest fires in Europe

5. Feb 2025 | General, Vegetation Fires, Wildfires

The EU Horizons projects FirEUrisk and SILVANUS are jointly organising two webinars on best practices in dealing with forest fires in Europe with the support of FIRELOGUE. The events are aimed at experts, researchers, political decision-makers and interested parties...

Deadlines extended for symposium on disaster research 2025

3. Feb 2025 | Fachtagung, General

The deadline for abstracts for the Symposium on Disaster Research 2025 has been extended to 14 February 2025. The deadline for submitting sessions has also been extended; this is now possible until 28 February 2025. The theme of the Symposium on Disaster Research...

New environmental portal umwelt.info launched

31. Jan 2025 | General

Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke and the President of the Federal Environment Agency Dirk Messner have officially presented the new umwelt.info portal. The digital service bundles environmental and nature conservation data available throughout Germany for the...