Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction
Join Us in Shaping the Future of National Resilience!
Are you passionate about creating a sustainable and resilient future?
We invite you to participate in our upcoming Resilience Investment Foresight Sprint, where we will collaboratively develop national foresight scenarios that guide strategic investments in resilience and reduce the risk of disaster.
Why Participate?
- Influence National Policy: Contribute your insights and expertise to shape scenarios that could be useful for your National Disaster Risk Management, Climate or Development Agency or the Ministry of Finance. Your scenario will be publicly available on PreventionWeb.
- Collaborate with Experts: Work alongside leading thinkers, and students from other disciplines.
- Drive Impactful Change: Help design actionable pathways that address key challenges and opportunities in resilience investment. You never know who will pick it up.
Who Should Participate?
We are looking for diverse participants, including but not limited to:
- Students with disaster risk management, foresight or risk communication background
- Students with development background who want to learn more about foresight and resilience building
- Students with background that would benefit from foresight and risk management, such as architecture, civil engineering, agriculture, education, health …
- Professors ready to lead a group of students through the exercise on behalf if their university
Timeline
- July 2025: Invitation email goes out to specific universities in the UNDRR and UNU networks, while a general call for universities to participate in the foresight sprint will be published via PreventionWeb.
- Mid-August to end of August 2025: Universities select their teams.
- By end-August 2025: Universities respond to invitation and are officially included in the foresight sprint.
- Early September 2025: UNDRR and UNU send out welcome information packs to all participating universities
- Mid-September 2025: University Teams start thinking about a risk or cascading risks they want to address in the scenario. They also start to identify national and local risk information on the risk they have selected for their scenario.
- 20 September: A virtual foresight sprint welcome session will be organized by UNDRR and UNU, and recordings will be made available to all registered participants.
- 20 September – 6 October: Participating universities will develop their foresight scenario and create a submission like a video or one-pager to be shared on 13 October
How to Apply
Interested university teams are encouraged to apply by 31 August 2025.
Please submit your application through email to Rhea Katsanakis ([email protected]) copied to Laura Willis ([email protected]), with a brief statement of interest and your relevant experience.
Please also enclose a list of the participating students, the contact details of the focal point who will coordinate the sprint on behalf of the university and will be responsible for timely preparation and final delivery of the scenario video and one-page summary.
Join us in this transformative journey to build a resilient future for all. Your insights and expertise can make a significant difference!