ENGAGE draws to a close
As of the end of December 2023, the ENGAGE project has concluded its work after three and a half years of research, collaboration, and contribution to current understandings of societal […]
December 2023
November 2023
Resilience is Participation- Engage at the Italian Festival of Participation
Picture credits: Margherita Caprilli
On September 23rd, the ENGAGE project attended the Festival della Partecipazione, an annual Italian event entirely dedicated to citizen participation in the various spheres of democratic life […]
July 2023
Revolutionizing Public Warning with AI-Enabled Chatbots
Photos compliments of One2Many, an Everbridge Company
As a software company active in empowering resilience, we are aware of how crucial effective communication is, especially in times of emergencies. One2Many, an […]
Heat waves: ENGAGEing citizens for more resilient communities
Graphic by ASLRM1
On 9 June, ASLRM1 and Cittadinanzattiva, partners in the ENGAGE project, carried out training for volunteers from local associations involved in the heat wave validation exercise in Rome, […]
ENGAGE/LINKS Advisory Board Workshop in Rotterdam
The ENGAGE project began in July 2020 and has since organised various activities with the Knowledge and Innovation Community of Practitioners (Ki-CoP). Despite the challenges presented by the […]
May 2023
What factors impact societal resilience?
Societal resilience is a vital attribute that enables communities and societies to effectively withstand, adapt, respond to, and recover from both nature-derived and human-made adversities. It encompasses the capacity to […]
April 2023
ENGAGE characterises informal disaster management solutions
In the ENGAGE project, we strongly believe in the value of defining and distinguishing informal solutions from formal ones. As we discussed in a previous blog post, this differentiation […]
February 2023
Simulation for public safety
Picture credits: Emergo Train System™
Different types of simulation systems are frequently used for training medical and rescue personnel, especially in regard to handling rare events or mass casualty incidents and […]
January 2023
What do we mean by coping actions?
ENGAGE is interested in how citizens contribute to overall crisis management and how this relates back to societal resilience. Thinking of resilience as something that refers to the resilience of […]
December 2022
Deep Blue holds ENGAGEing workshop with citizens
ENGAGE aims to strengthen the the collaboration between citizens and first responders/authorities during emergency events. Citizens can act before, during and after a emergency event in a coordinated way with […]