Funded by the European Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), ROADMAP ((European observatory on disaster risk and crisis management best practices) is a project dedicated to bringing knowledge about disasters, developed over the years by the scientific community, closer to policy-makers and risk management managers, so as to improve risk governance and ultimately foster positive impacts on communities.
With a duration of 18 months (January 2021- June 2022), ROADMAP is focused on linking national and EU initiatives on risk management, so as to contribute to the definition of common policies applicable at national level and, at the same time, to propose to the European Union the best practices developed in the different Member States and Associated Countries that can represent a standard reference for future national and European initiatives.
More specifically, the project will result in the creation of a ‘European Doctrine on Disaster Risk and Crisis Management’. Adopting a bottom-up approach, it will collect good practices in civil protection and risk reduction, sharing them with decision makers and professionals through regular bulletins and publications. The results of the thematic work will then be processed and systematised in a vision paper, outlining the actions needed to move from knowledge to the tools and procedures required by policy and decision makers for risk management.