Education and school safety

Policies and activities in the education sector to protect students and educators from disasters impacts, ensure continuity of education through all expected hazards and strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education.

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Documents and publications

11 November 2023

Climate change and sustainability in Spanish classrooms: State of the art and didactic proposal

This paper designs a learning situation on sustainability and climate change that can be implemented in the Spanish and European contexts.

Documents and publications

11 November 2023

Multi-hazard resilience of higher educational institutions in Asia Pacific

This collaborative endeavor aims to facilitate the exchange of challenges, lessons learned, and innovative practices in preparedness, response, and recovery across various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Update

30 October 2023

Training of trainers to improve geological disasters resilience in Malaysia

We have witnessed a growing number of geological disasters due to climatic shifts. One such disaster is the landslide, and this can be attributed to intense rainfall coupled with high slope angles in areas previously not expected to be susceptible.

European Geosciences Union

Documents and publications

26 October 2023

Futures at risk: Climate-induced shocks and their toll on education for crisis-affected children

This 2023 background study presents estimates of the number of crisis-affected children and adolescents whose education was disrupted by climate shocks, as well as the number of forced displacements of school-aged children due to extreme weather events.

Schoolchildren conducting earthquake drill

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20 October 2023

For Fijian students, annual tsunami drills are just another part of their school life

The long whirring sound of a tsunami alert ringing out across Fiji’s capital of Suva is a familiar sound, thanks to annual drills practicing for a day residents hope never arrives.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Update

13 October 2023

Building children’s resilience towards disaster through education

By focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) education for children in schools, we can empower them with the knowledge and skills needed to not only cope with disasters but to actively contribute to building resilient communities.

United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)

Update

7 October 2023

Why disaster resilient infrastructure education needs to be embedded in higher education curriculum

Enhancing existing academic and training curricula, with respect to the evolving context of disaster and climate risks, will be a vital building block for securing infrastructure against disasters.

Hindu Business Line, the - The Hindu Group of Publications

Documents and publications

3 October 2023

Feasibility study for the conception of CH focused virtual reality and learning tools to be integrated into the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network

For the elaboration of this feasibility study on virtual reality of 2023, the project carried out an analysis of the existing knowledge and available technological developments in the field, particularly the work done by the Training Centre Network on 3D.