DRR Summer school | JUNE 9 - 11, 2025, Geneva
A difficult decision
Welcome,
We regret that the DRR Summer School 2025 has been cancelled. Planned for this June with a focus on creative disaster risk communication, we saw ourselves forced to this difficult decision. Reservations were fewer than anticipated (perhaps unsurprising in the current uncertainty that affects our sector), and a substantial cost increase at the venue that had not been previously communicated to us left us no choice. All speakers and registered participants have been informed (and a full refund is on the way).
If you are interested in risk communication, we recommend part II of the Global Assessment Report 2022, written by one of our planned speakers, Lisa Robinson. Prof.Iain Stewart’s article on Advancing Disaster Risk Communications is another insightful read (he too would have been at the Summer School). Furthermore, this background paper summarises the issues for effective and creative risk communication.
We will strive to offer new Summer Schools in the future (see impressions below from the 2023 School). In the meantime, if you at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, we hope to see you there.
Best wishes,
Dr Bruno Haghebaert and Patrick Bolte
Impressions from the DRR Summer School 2023 in Oxford
To get a feel of what to expect, have a look at the website from the previous DRR Summer School that we organised together with Oxford Brookes University.
Check out the testimonials from participants, our photo wall, and watch Bruno Haghebaert go through the history of DRR.
As in 2023, the DRR Summer School will be based on a small group with no more than 45 participants — a great way to learn together and enhance creative risk communication.
