Marie Curie ITN Changes

Project number: 93940030

Project summary

The CHANGES network (Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks - as Analyzed by a New Generation of European Scientists) develops an advanced understanding of how global changes (related to environmental and climate change as well as socio-economical change) will affect the temporal and spatial patterns of hydro-meteorological hazards and associated risks in Europe; how these changes can be assessed, modelled, and incorporated in sustainable risk management strategies, focusing on spatial planning, emergency preparedness and risk communication. The main objectives are:
1) provide high-level training, teaching and research in the field of hazard and risk management in a changing environmental context to European young scientists;
2) reduce the fragmentation of research on natural processes, and
3) to develop a methodological framework combined with modelling tools for probabilistic multi-hazard risk assessment taking into account changes in hazard scenarios (related to climate change) and exposed elements at risk. The network consists of 11 full partners and 6 associate partners of which 5 private companies, representing 10 European countries.