Disaster resilience theme for the 70th Anniversary of ITC (Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente)

Published on February 14, 2022

Keynote sessions were conducted live and are available to watch online. Three themes were highlighted during the week: 1) Bio-diversity and Food Security (October 26th); Geo-Health (October 27th); Hazard Risk & Resilience (October 28th).

The session on Thursday 28 October  focussed on disaster resilience in practice and gender equality, diversity and inclusion in support to resilience. The final session of the day was dedicated to the inauguration of the UT-ITC centre for disaster resilience. DRMKC contributed to the session on gender equality in DRM with an intervention of Alessandra Zampieri, head of the "Disaster Risk Management" Unit of the Joint Research Centre.

Link: https://www.itc.nl/about-itc/70-years-itc/

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