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Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) acts as a link between scientific research and practitioners in crisis and disaster management. Through knowledge and technology transfer, findings from basic research are implemented and directed to those interested in security and disaster research in Austria and beyond.
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Secure your place now for DCNA's symposium “Disaster research meets operational practice – drones and robotics in focus”! The event for organizations with security tasks will take place from September 18 to 20, 2025 as part of the RETTER fair in Wels, Upper Austria. The call for abstracts has now been closed, but workshop concepts can still be submitted until February 28.
People with disabilities, children, the elderly, individuals with language barriers, and other population groups are particularly vulnerable during floods, heat waves, blackouts etc. and should, thus, receive special protection. The VULKANO research project, using selected best practice examples, provides strategies to achieve this and highlights areas where further action is needed. The aim is to better incorporate vulnerable groups into disaster and emergency plans at the local level.
DCNA has joined another KIRAS project at the beginning of the year: EMERDEC deals with the question of how emergency services make decisions in highly critical situations and how digital support systems can optimally accompany them. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of decision-making in order to create the technological and ethical foundations for the next generation of decision support systems.