The material goal “resiliency” (another similar used term, e.g. in climate change research, is adaptive capacity) can be seen as a widely accepted strategy within the natural disaster community. On the contrary, the more procedural approach “risk governance” has been created and adapted first in the area of new emerging, mostly man-made risks. The usage of both terms in the same context has to be seen as an innovative approach to combining an appropriate path (risk governance – including identification, assessment, management and communication of risk) towards the material goal of creating resilient communities, able to deal with the whole range of risks, nature-made as well as man-made ones.

The specific goals of the project are:

1. To develop an overall framework for risk governance and resilience measurement and monitoring based on a review of current standards and state of the art;
2. To make measurable and tangible the culture of collaboration required by public sector organisations to collaborate in preparing for and meeting cross-sectoral risks;
3. To pilot an e-management resilience tool that can be used for resilience planning, monitoring and management across stakeholder organisations from European, national to local levels;
4. Based on results of 1. to 4. to provide worked examples based on two case studies, resulting in quantitative risk measures and Capability Maturity Models to capture know-how in the domain, supported by a linked database of knowledge and case study experience;
5. Based on results of 1. to 4. to provide worked examples based on real risk management settings;
6. To provide a framework of questions whereby the completeness of risk awareness in a situation can be ensured or at least improved;
7. To disseminate the overall framework among decision-makers and science all over Europe by networking, events and the implementation of a communication and dissemination strategy.