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) was a project dedicated to bringing knowledge about disasters, developed over the years by the scientific community, closer to policy-makers and risk management managers, with the aim of improving risk governance and ultimately fostering positive impacts on communities.
With a duration of 18 months (January 2021 – June 2022), ROADMAP focused on linking national and EU initiatives on risk management, contributing to the definition of common policies applicable at the national level and proposing to the European Union the best practices developed in the different Member States and Associated Countries, which can serve as standard references for future national and European initiatives.
More specifically, the project resulted in the creation of a “European Doctrine on Disaster Risk and Crisis Management.” Adopting a bottom-up approach, ROADMAP collected a wide range of good practices in civil protection and risk reduction, which were shared with decision makers and professionals through regular bulletins and publications.
The results of the thematic work were processed and systematised in a vision paper, which outlined the actions to be promoted in order to move from knowledge to tools and operational procedures required by policy and decision makers for more effective risk management.