TOGETHER (Towards enhanced coordination of disaster risk management and governance through a holistic framework for multi-level interaction and communication) is an EU-funded research project that aims to bring people, data, tools and policies together, to bridge existing research with current practice. The project aims to achieve real changes and improve coordination throughout the disaster risk management cycle and governance.
Over the course of the next three years, the project will assess the current landcape of disaster management and develop a framework to mitigate disaster impacts, with the goal of strenthening risk-informed decision-making. The aim is to create and test the TOGETHER toolkit, an instrument that will integrate innovative solutions across multiple dimensions of Disaster Risk Management. The toolkit will include:
- Five interoperability frameworks: legal, organisational, technical, semantic and cross-domain to provide Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) data
- A multi-tool system: an intelligent AI agent to generate insights using the FAIR data for Disaster Risk Management Governance
- Guidelines for improved Disaster Risk Management Governance
To enhance synergy-building and citizen engagement among the scientific community, research programmes, practitioners, policymakers, civil societies, volunteers and local communities, a Stakeholder Partnership Forum will be established and several capacity building activities and knowledge transfer sessions will be carried out. Furtermore, the project will implement a novel public-private-civic partnership approach in three Disaster Risk Management Innovation Hubs (Norway, Greece and Spain) to co-create, co-evaluate and demonstrate the functionalities of the toolkit. Its robustness will also be showcased within two replication studies, conducted in Portugal and Türkiye.
TOGETHER connects 20 partners from 11 countries and 2 associated participants, combining extensive expertise from the scientific communitiy, civil society and disaster risk mangement authorities.
The project began in November 2025 and ends in 2028.
Call for Proposal: HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01
This project has received funding from the European Research Executive Agency (Project ID:101226137)
TOGETHER is a Horizon Innovation Actions project supported by the European Commission under grant agreement No 101226137. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
