Welcome to the ANDROID website
Welcome to the website of the ANDROID disaster resilience network. ANDROID is an Erasmus academic network that aims to promote co-operation and innovation among European Higher Education to increase society’s resilience to disasters of human and natural origin.
The network’s teaching and research is concerned with what resilience is, what it means to society, and how societies might achieve greater resilience in the face of increasing threats from natural and human induced hazards. The network will create a European approach that will help us understand the attributes that enable physical, socio-cultural, politico-economic and natural systems to adapt, by resistance or changing, in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning. The network will also raise awareness and promote a common understanding among stakeholders of the importance of disaster resilience education and the essential role of European HEIs in improving society’s ability to increase disaster resilience.
European inventory of disaster resilience education
ANDROID is undertaking a survey to establish the current teaching and research capacity among European Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in the disaster resilience field. The survey can be found at this website.
Please complete this survey even if no disaster resilience courses are offered at your HEI, so that we can form a picture of coverage in Europe. If your HEI offers more than one course covering disaster resilience, please complete a separate survey for each course.
Last Updated on Thursday, 06 June 2013 10:07
2nd Annual Conference to be held in Limassol, Cyprus
It is with great pleasure that the ANDROID network is announcing its 2nd annual conference to be held on 24th and 25th October 2013, in Limassol, Cyprus. The conference will be a great opportunity to bring together the 67 network partners from 31 countries. During the conference, developments and results from each work-package will be presented and the network members will get the chance to discuss developments in the Android project and exchange ideas in a round table format, participate in workshops and work-package group meetings. Partners will also have the opportunity to present their work in the disaster resilience field, following abstract submission. Further details can be found on the conference webpage.
Download Issue 3 of ANDROID Exchange
Volume 1, Issue 3 of the new ANDROID Exchange newsletter is now available to download from our publications section of this website. This issues includes
This issue begins with an introduction to the roadmap for european education in developing societal resilience to disasters, a key output of the ANDROID network, planned for release in 2014. The roadmap will bring together results from other ANDROID activities, including two survey projects and research special interest groups. It is expected that roadmap will set an agenda for educational policy in the field. The article includes details about the roadmap and the related inputs, as well as information on how you can contribute to this important activity.
The issue also includes details of our successful first annual ANDROID conference, which took place in the beautiful city of Tallinn, Estonia in October 2012. Later in the issue, two important upcoming events are also announced: the ANDROID doctoral school, which will be held in online and residential forms, and the second annual ANDROID conference, to be held in Cyprus in October 2013. Please make a note of these events and their corresponding dates as they are both important activities in the coming year.
As usual, we have updates from two of our regular contributors to Exchange: the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Campaign and the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. Both are important partners for the network and we encourage you to explore recent developments.
Online doctoral school announced
The ANDROID online doctoral school aims to transfer knowledge and develop the knowledge base of doctoral candidates. This is to be achieved through the conduct of a series of domain expert presentations along with detailed discussion sessions aimed at engaging the participants in knowledge discovery through detailed discussion. A panel of experts in disaster management and resilience will lead the discussion.
The first school will be a two day workshop conducted online on 19 & 20 March 2013. Further details are provided in our doctoral school page.
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