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ONVERGE is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder.
CONVERGE advances social science, engineering, and interdisciplinary research and establishes and strengthens networks between disciplinary communities. In the next five years, CONVERGE will:
- Create and support the CONVERGE Leadership Corps for coordinating and advancing rapid response disaster research.
- Identify, map, and accelerate the training of social science and interdisciplinary researchers through the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) and Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Extreme Events Research (ISEEER) networks.
- Develop a series of training modules to advance the ethical conduct of hazards and disaster researchers.
- Partner with the Natural Hazards Review journal to publish a new CONVERGE Quick Response Research Briefing Sheets series to focus attention on best practices for hazards and disaster research.
- Encourage and fund research projects across the disaster lifecycle among SSEER and ISEEER researchers.
- Work with the RAPID facility to advance mobile applications for social science and interdisciplinary reconnaissance.
- Collaborate with DesignSafe-Cyberinfrastructure to build a novel social science and interdisciplinary data model to curate and publish hazards and disaster research instruments and data sets.
CONVERGE is supported by the National Science Foundation and is part of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) for the nation.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.