RESINT

Background

RESINT is a two-year ERASMUS multilateral project which promotes cooperation and innovation among European higher education institutes, governments, associations and business partners to increase society’s resilience to disasters. The project proposes a collaborative approach for resilience management in overcoming the existing inadequacy of university courses, curricula and syllabuses. RESINT therefore aims at reforming curricula in resilience management with the collaboration of non-academic partners. Accordingly it will contribute towards resilience management teaching and learning by developing open source new methodologies and didactical tools with augmented reality and intelligent computer learning systems. The innovative teaching methods with the cooperation of business partners and associations will enhance the entrepreneurial skills and attitudes of teachers and students and will facilitate students and staff mobility between academia and business.

Project objectives

The main objectives of the projects are:

Methodology

RESINT will achieve these objectives by seven clearly defined work packages which includes effective management of project activities (WP1); development of new curricula and syllabuses in resilience management (WP2); development of the innovative virtual interuniversity network for resilience management educational cooperation (WP3); development of open Source in intelligent systems and augmented reality (WP4); Effective dissemination of project results (WP5); assurance of quality (WP6) and designing and developing mechanisms of ensuring sustainability of OER platforms developed as part of the project (WP7).

The project will bring new tools for networking, teaching and disseminating which will empower students and other target groups with a series of competences in resilience management. The project is developed along three axes:

The project will also create:

Consortium

The RESINT consortium is composed of 10 partners from four different countries with the lead of the University of Bologna, Italy. List of partner institutions are given below:

Further information

For further information, please contact:
Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga, Principal Investigator representing Global Disaster Resilience Ventre (GDRC),
School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK
E. d.amaratunga@hud.ac.uk

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This article reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.