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Nursing staff are indispensable in crisis situations – be it natural disasters, pandemics or humanitarian emergencies. But how well prepared is nursing care for such challenges? What structures, skills and strategies are needed to be able to act professionally? The congress “Care in Civil Protection” on October 8, 2025 at the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn is dedicated to precisely […]

The Federal Academy for Security Policy of Germany has published a policy paper on maritime Critical Infrastructure titled “Protecting Maritime Critical Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea: Is a Warning Shot Across the Bow Necessary?” (original: „Schutz maritimer Kritischer Infrastruktur in der Ostsee: Braucht es den Schuss vor den Bug?“). The increasing number of sabotage attempts […]

On the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley 2021, an event will take place on July 3rd and 4th, 2025 at the Rhein-Ahr-Campus in Remagen. The event is dedicated to European learning and is organized by Thinking Circular®. Experts from various fields will discuss climate-related crises and the […]

The book “Scientific Perspectives on Wildfire Risk Management at the WUI Property Scale” coordinated by Miguel Almeida, a senior researcher at CEIF/ADAI, University of Coimbra, Portugal, has been published. It contains contributions from 34 leading researchers from 10 countries, providing a broad scientific perspective on wildfire risk management at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) property scale. […]

Our personal member and former board member – Prof. Dr. Annegret Thieken – has been awarded the 2025 Plinius Medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU)! This prestigious award recognizes her outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary natural hazards research, particularly to improving the understanding of flood risks, their societal impacts, and the development of adaptation and […]

On November 27, 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted The Regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data – commonly known as the Data Act. The Data Act entered into force on January 11, 2024, and will become directly applicable in all EU Member States from September 12, 2025, […]

The exploratory study, conducted by Team HF PartG on behalf of the BBK as part of the EU-funded ISF project “Warning the Population,” examines the practical experiences, challenges, and potentials of Katastrophenschutz-Leuchttürme; in short Kat-Leuchttürme (engl.: “disaster protection lighthouses” which can be compared to Emergency Response Centers or Disaster Relief Centers) with regard to their […]

On Monday, April 28, 2025, at around 12:30 p.m. local time, a massive power outage affected large parts of Spain, Portugal, and southern France. The Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica reported a sudden drop in electricity demand. In Portugal, the outage caused disruptions to telecommunications services and hospitals that relied on emergency power supplies, as […]

The European project EUMA (Creating a European Higher Education Network for Master’s Programmes in Disaster Risk Management) invites professionals in the field of civil protection and disaster management to participate in the specialised EUMA Workshop, taking place from 30 June to 1 July 2025 in Tallinn. Under the title “Geopolitical and Security Issues in Risk […]