Co-creative improved understanding and awareness of multi-hazard risks for disaster resilient society (C2IMPRESS)

There is a significant gap in data, understanding, and awareness regarding compound weather and climate extremes both in Europe and globally. This lack of knowledge, coupled with inadequate governance, exacerbates the vulnerability, risk, and resilience of people, communities, and places facing these interconnected challenges. The C2IMPRESS project aims to bring a radical paradigm shift to disaster and hazard research and innovation by moving away from traditional ‘hazard centric’ approach/ framework to a novel ‘place and people’ centred integrated multi-hazard risk and resilient assessment framework.

Guided by this framework, the project aims to offer an ensemble of innovative revolutionary models, methods, frameworks, tools and technologies that are holistic and robust enough to provide appropriate fine-grained spatio-temporal qualitative and quantitative data, locally appropriate solutions, better prediction with lower uncertainty on risks of single or multiple hazards stemming from extreme weather events like floods, wildfires etc. under different climate change scenarios. With these social and technical innovations, as novel processes and products, the C2IMPRESS project will provide better understanding and public awareness on multi-hazard risks, the associated multidimensional impacts, vulnerabilities and resilience of extreme weather events in 4 case study areas in Europe.