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Apply to Summer School on Critical Infrastructure Resilience in Venice

Jonas Johansson at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety is part of organizing a summer school on Critical Infrastructure Resilience at the University of Venice on July 18-22 – aiming at practitioners, PhD-students, and other professionals. Deadline for applying is the 30th of May.

– Published 18 May 2022

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Our societies and the systems we depend on are under increasing pressure. This course aims to offer concrete solutions on decision-making to manage crises and build resilience within our systems. As managers or employees of public & private organizations, as academics working on this topic, we often struggle with the uncertainty associated with crises and how to prioritize our decisions. Covid-19, forest fires and floods, the war have impacted us directly or indirectly. The broad span of these events allows us to differentiate and compare various resilience strategies deployed by governments and businesses. And to see which strategies performed better.

In this 6th edition, the summer school on Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR), led by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, offers a pragmatic framework and shares tactical tools used by governments and businesses. The framework reflects both national laws and the International Standard Organization guidelines and is accessible, impact oriented, and pragmatic.

The course combines classical approaches used in disaster risk management, critical infrastructure management and climate change adaptation. The added value of merging several perspectives is that it allows for a better understanding of resilience strategies and options, such as whether to go back to the old normal or move forward and establish a new normal. Most often than not, resilience strategies are successful when they work for the whole sector/system in which they operate. For this, they need to understand the connectivity and the complexity of the system they are working with and identify the nods, the pressure points from where to gain leverage. 

The course consists of a mix of theoretical knowledge, case studies/projects and hands-on exercises. This course will discuss the concept of CI and aims to provide the participants with

  • a clear understanding of the framework and tactical tools,
  • a series of existing decision-making tools used by public entities, businesses and international organizations, and
  • peer learning from participant’s experiences.

Summer school "Critical Infrastructure Resilience" on the website of Venice International University

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