About PARATUS

Project objectives and expected results

Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co-developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters

Project objectives and expected results

Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co-developing stakeholder support tools

for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters

PARATUS is a Horizon Europe-funded project that aims at increasing the preparedness of first and second responders in the face of multi-hazard events and to reduce the risks related to impacts on various sectors that result from complex disasters. The outcome is to develop a cloud-based Online Service Platform that offers support in reducing dynamic risk scenarios and systemic vulnerability caused by multi-hazard disasters.

In order to achieve these objectives, the project will perform in-depth assessments of complex interactions between hazards and their resulting impacts in various sectors, as well as analyse the current risk situation and study how alternative future scenarios could change multi-hazard impact chains. Based on this analysis, scenarios of multi-hazard impacts will be co-designed with stakeholders and developed in four case study areas (including the Caribbean, Romania, Istanbul, and Alpine areas).

Project Consortium

The project consortium is composed of 19 partners from 11 countries and includes representatives of research organisations, NGOs, SMEs, first and second responders, and local and regional authorities.

Project Consortium

The project consortium is composed of 19 partners from 11 countries and includes

representatives of research organisations, NGOs, SMEs, first and second responders, and

local and regional authorities.

COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION SERVICE

This project has received funding from European Union’s Horizon Europe Research

and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement N. 101073954.

Our research community

PARATUS is part of a research cluster that is composed of similar projects. Together we

collaborate to achieve our common purpose of building disaster-resilient societies.

Have a look at our sister projects:

CORE

From: 1 September 2021 to: 31 August 2024

“sCience and human factOr for Resilient sociEty”

The CORE project aims to provide optimised actions and

harmonised solutions to rebuild socio-economic structures

after a disaster by blending European-specific and

global best practice.

ENGAGE

From: 1 July 2020 to: 31 December 2023

“ENGAGE society for risk awareness and resilience”

The ENGAGE project aims to explore how individuals and local

practices can interrelate effectively with planned preparedness

and response, practitioners and technology.

LINKS

From: 1 June 2020 to: 30 November 2023

“Strengthening LINKS between technologies and society
for European disaster resilience”

The overall aim of the LINKS project is to strengthen links between

technologies and society for improved European disaster resilience,

by producing sustainable advanced learning on the use of social media

and crowdsourcing in disasters.

MEDiate

From: 1 October 2022 to: 30 September 2025

“Multi-hazard and risk informed system for Enhanced local
and regional Disaster risk management”

This project aims to develop a decision-support system for

disaster risk management by considering multiple interacting

natural hazards and cascading impacts using a novel resilient-informed

and service-oriented approach that accounts for forecasted modifications

in the hazard, vulnerability/resilience and exposure.

RiskPACC

From: 1 September 2021 to: 31 August 2024

“Integrating Risk Perception and Action to enhance Civil
protection-Citizen interaction”

The RiskPACC project aims to increase disaster resilience in

society by understanding and closing the risk perception

action gap using a co-creation approach to risk communication.

Other projects that are not part of the same research cluster but that we do coordinate with are:

MYRIAD-EU

From: 1 September 2021 to: 31 August 2025

“Multi-hazard and sYstemic framework for enhancing Risk-Informed
mAnagement and Decision-making in the E.U.”

The MYRIAD-EU project aims to inspire the introduction of

a multi-risk, multi-sector, systemic approach to risk management.

The HuT

From: 1 October 2022 to: 30 September 2026

“The HUman-Tech nexus – building a safe haven to cope
with climate extremes”

The HuT project aims to promote the “best set” of trans-

disciplinary risk management tools and approaches that

could be adopted and used extensively across Europe, in

as many situations as possible.