30 November 2025, Brussels
A new EU-funded research project has officially launched with the mission to address key challenges and enhance multi-level and cross-sectoral coordination in Disaster Risk Management.
TOGETHER (Towards enhanced coordination of disaster risk management and governance through a holistic framework for multi-level interaction and communication) gathers 20 partners from 11 countries and 2 associated participants, combining extensive expertise from the scientific community, civil society and disaster risk management authorities. The project’s ambition is to bring people, data, tools and policies together, to bridge research and practice and achieve real changes in improving coordination throughout the disaster risk management cycle and governance.
Over the course of the next three years, the project will assess the current landscape 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, and 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
A Stakeholder Partnership Forum will be established to enhance synergy-building and citizen engagement among the scientific community, research programmes, practitioners, policymakers, civil societies, citizen volunteers and local communities, 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.
Our role
As a key partner, EENA will focus on improving practitioners’ understanding and capabilities to identify and mitigate disaster-related risks and will lead the communication and dissemination activities.
The TOGETHER consortium is composed of: Stiftelsen NORSAR (Coordinator), Oslo Kommune, Technovative Solutions Ltd, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Dimos Egaleo, Resilience Advisors Ltd, European Emergency Number Association ASBL, Samaritan International e.V., Universidad de Alicante, Ayuntamiento de Orihuela, Universitetet i Agder, Centro Europeo di Formazione e Ricerca in Ingegneria Sismica, University of Strathclyde, The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, Turkiye Kizilay Dernegi, Comité des Données Scientifiques et Technologiques Association, Artelia, Stichting VU, Universidade do Porto, CouperJones Ltd, Municipality of Lisbon (Associated Participant), and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Associated Participant).
