Sub-Project 13: Training

Training activities will comprise two main lines of action; organisation of workshops and production of training material, as described below.

Workshops

LESSLOSS will organize one major International Workshops addressing Stakeholders and the relevant scientific/technical User Communities. This event is foreseen at the end of the project and will constitute a major instrument for training, since it aims at disseminating the up-to-date and effective guidelines and recommendations for mitigating landslide and earthquake losses that will be the product of the LESSLOSS project. The workshop will take place in Italy, and will be organised by JRC, who has vast experience in organising such type of events with assured participation of relevant local, national and international institutions and individual professionals.

In addition, a number of complementary and perhaps more locally-focused events are envisaged to take place during the 2nd and 3rd year of the project. These consist of dedicated workshops organised by Sub-Project coordinators, who will meet with specific user groups (e.g. local professional associations, local city council members, etc.) with a view to describe and provide training guidance to local professionals on the basis of the results and activities of LESSLOSS. The workshops that have already been scheduled and agreed upon are listed in the Table below, noting nonethele ss that it is highly plausible that further events will be scheduled as the project progresses.

Production of Training Material

Within the scope of the Dissemination and Exploitation plans, it is envisaged that material such as leaflets, multimedia CDs, web-based applications, printed reports, and so on, will be produced. It is foreseen that a number of these will be produced and edited with an aim of not only serving as a means of results dissemination but also actually becoming valid and effective training and guidance tools, to be used by relevant professionals. Perhaps the most elucidative example of which is the LESSLOSS Report Series, which comprises the following titles.

• Landslides: Mapping, Monitoring, Modelling and Stabilization

• European in-situ Assessment Manual for Existing Structures

• Innovative Anti-Seismic Systems Users Manual

• Guidelines for Seismic Upgrading of Buildings and Infrastructures

• Guidelines for Displacement-based Design of Buildings and Bridges

• Guidelines for the Application of Probabilistic Methods to Seismic Assessment of Existing Structures

• Disaster Scenarios Predictions and Loss Modelling for Urban Areas

• Prediction of Ground Motion and Loss Scenarios for Selected Infrastructure Systems in European Urban Environments

The production and distribution of these training/guidance technical reports has already been planned and budgeted within the current project. As mentioned above, other potentially effective initiatives, taking for instance advantage of the web-based LESSLOSS facility that will be implemented within the scope of the Dissemination activities, will also be considered and activated as the project progresses.