NORDRESS is proud to announce a new publication in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction: Participatory early warning and monitoring systems: A Nordic framework for web-based flood risk management, […]
Welcome to NORDRESS
– the Nordic Centre of Excellence on Resilience and Societal Security.
NORDRESS is a Centre of Excellence under the Social Security Programme of NordForsk. Its aim is to carry out multidisciplinary studies to enhance societal security and resilience to natural disasters. Partners from 15 institutions in all Nordic countries will join forces to increase the resilience of individuals, communities, infrastructure and institutions.
The NordForsk Social Security Programme is funded by:
News
An unusual NORDRESS meeting!
An unusual NORDRESS meeting took place in Copenhagen on Sept 17-18 2018. More than 20 partners gathered to explore how their work and findings in NORDRESS can be presented to […]
Book published: Volcanic Crisis Communication
NORDRESS is proud to announce that Deanne Bird´s book “Volcanic Crisis Communication” which she wrote together with her colleges has been published. Both Deanne Bird and Gudrun Gisladottir attended and […]
Related News
Arna Hauksdóttir and Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir in the news
Arna Hauksdóttir and Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir , from University of Iceland in the The Icelandic newspaper Visir. Bestu vinkour í vísindum (only in Icelandic)
Two million Euro grant from the European Research Council
Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir, Professor of Epidemiology University of Iceland and NORDRESS partner, has been awarded a 2 million Euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She will conduct pioneering […]
From Gap to Caps
A member of the NORDRESS team Dr. Björn Karlsson delivered recently the final report of his Task in the EU project „From Gaps to Caps“ (Risk Management Capability on Gaps Identification […]
Events
NORDRESS work meeting in September 2018
The extra NORDRESS work meeting will be held on Monday September 17th to Tuesday September 18th in or near Copenhagen.
NORDRESS annual meeting in April 2018
The fourth NORDRESS Annual meeting was held in Malmö, Sweden on Wednesday April 25 & Thursday April 26, 2018 Agenda Photos from the meeting:
NORDRESS Annual meeting, Agenda
NORDRESS Annual meeting will take place on Wednesday August 22, 2017 in Reykjavik. Please find the agenda here.
Related Events
Call for abstracts – SRA Nordic Conference
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) invites submissions to the 2018 Nordic Conference: Exploring the risk, safety, security and resilience nexus Risk, safety, security and resilience analysis and management are […]
27th Annual Conference of the Society for Risk Analysis – Europe
Call for Abstracts 27th Annual Conference of the Society for Risk Analysis – Europe Östersund, Sweden, June 18–20 2018 The conference organizers of SRA-Europe 2018 are inviting proposals on […]
International Conference From Disaster Management to Disaster Risk Reduction – Sendai Framework Implementation
Risk Assessment ● Processes ● Indicators 26th – 27th February 2018, Berlin Please find detailed information in this brochure With the following experts: • United Nations Office for Disaster […]