SASPARM 2.0
Support Action for Strengthening PAlestine
capabilities for seismic Risk Mitigation
SASPARM 2.0
2014 PROJECT FOR CIVIL PROTECTION
2013 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT
PREPAREDNESS AND PREVENTION SCHEME
KICK OFF MEETING BRUXELLES 20-01-2015
Dr. Barbara Borzi
[email protected]
SASPARM 2.0
Consortium
• Proposal presented in the DG ECHO scheme – 2014 Call for Proposals – Preparedness
and prevention projects in civil protection and marine pollution. EU funding scheme.
• Consortium: Eucentre (Coordinator), IUSS-Pavia and An-Najah National University.
• Endorsement of the Italian Civil Protection Department.
• Support from Nablus Municipality; Engineers Association - Jerusalem Center; National
Agency for Disaster Risk Mitigation - Palestine; Secretariat of the International Strategy for
Disaster Reduction - Regional office of Arab States; Italian Civil Protection Department;
Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation; ImageCat, Inc. – California).
• EC financial contribution requested: 499.983 EUR ( = 75% of total eligible costs).
• Duration in months: 24
• Staring date: January 01, 2015
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Consortium
Eucentre – EC Contribution € 225,174
EUCENTRE promote and support research and education in the field of seismology, geology, geotechnical
engineering, hazard and risk assessment, flooding vulnerability assessment, ecological approach and emergency
management, Re-insurance market
IUSS – EC Contribution € 172,317
IUSS offers advanced international undergraduate and graduate programs through:
Undergraduate Internal courses open, on a merit base, to the most promising students of University of Pavia.
Level II University Master degrees, fully taught in English providing a strong International approach.
PhD Degrees providing an interdisciplinary point of view and exposure to cutting edge research.
ANU – EC Contribution € 102,493
ANU was originally established as An-Najah Nabulsi School in 1918 in the Palestinian city of Nablus. In 1977 it
became a full-fledged university and it is now the largest university in Palestine. The Earth Sciences and Seismic
Engineering Center (ESSEC) at NNU was established in October 1996 in the city of Nablus. It is the only
specialized center in earthquake engineering in the West Bank or Gaza Strip
SASPARM 2.0
Back ground information
• The need for prevention in the field of seismic risk is strongly required and this
encouraged the new proposal
• It represents a strategic avenue and a comprehensive advance of the post-SASPARM
environment and involves the same Consortium
• Its core is the development of a web portal where different users
(students/citizens/practitioners/GO and NGO stakeholders) will be able to input and
manage data regarding buildings, with increasing level of detail, obtaining information on
the related seismic risk
• Protocols to acquire data through guided procedures will be also available on the web
portal to support a better understanding of each case study. Increasing levels of
knowledge will correspond to increasing reliability of the results in terms of seismic
risk
• Since February 2013 Nablus became the first Palestinian city to join the UNISDR's
Making Cities Resilient Campaign. Hence, undertaking the activities identified in
SASPARM 2.0 will represent a natural evolution for the Palestinian Partner within a
collaborative European framework for mitigation of seismic risk
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Project overview - tasks
Task D
Training for targeted groups
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Platform
Task B
Collection of vulnerability
data on buildings
Task F
Development and
implementation of
vulnerability models for the
evaluation of seismic risk
Task C
Prevention and mitigation of
seismic vulnerability
Task E
Development of guidelines for
risk management policy
considering the socioeconomic impact
Task G
Development of the WebBased Platform (WBP) for
seismic risk mitigation
data tools guidelines
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Project overview – main targets
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The increase of risk perception by citizens and the development of the citizens’
science
The capacity building of local practitioners and building contractors
The engagement of local stakeholders and policy makers leading them to establish
plans of prevention in the development of urban resilience strategies
Project overview – expected results
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An increased awareness of seismic risk by the actors involved in the project: students,
citizens, practitioners, GO and NGO stakeholders
A shared database (DB) including a large number of vulnerability data.
A Web-Based Platform (WBP) that integrates the data above and treats them, through
vulnerability models developed for the Palestinian building typologies, to evaluate seismic
risk
Guidelines on the implementation of measures to reduce vulnerability and, hence,
mitigate seismic risk
Guidelines for risk management policy aimed at mitigating the impact of socio-economic
losses
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Gantt and deliverables
Tasks
JAN/15
DIC/16
JAN/16
PM, Brussels
PM, Brussels
PM - Pavia
A
PM - Nablus
PM - Pavia
Finantial Report
Finantial Report
Finantial Report
Technical Report
Technical Report
Technical Report
PM - Pavia
Management and reporting to
the Commission
GA; CA; PWP
Paper format of
collection form.
B
Collection of vulnerability
data on buildings
Report on
Structural Typol.
Istructions
Electronic format
and App
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Gantt and deliverables
Tasks
C
JAN/15
DIC/16
JAN/16
Training courses for
practitioners and
contractors
Prevention and mitigation of
seismic vulnerability,
Report on retr. Tool to link
measures
to vuln. data
D
Training for targeted groups
(citizens, university students,
stakeholders, practitioners)
Training &multimedia material
PM
(stakeholders,
risk experts)
E
Development of guidelines
for risk management policy
considering the socioeconomic impact
Report on resp. to
emergency
Gudelines on ins.
policy
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Gantt and deliverables
Tasks
F
Development and
implementation of
vulnerability models for the
evaluation of seismic risk
G
Development of the WebBased Platform (WBP) for
seismic risk
mitigation
JAN/15
DIC/16
JAN/16
Report on fragility
curves & validation rep.
Plan to
mantain WBP
SW requirements &SW
architecture
Beta vesion WBP
vesion 1 WBP
PM
H
Publicity
Newsletter, multimedia & project material
Dissemination & exploitation plan
– web portal
Final
conference
Exploitation study & dissemination
report & Lauman’s report
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Project follow up
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To extend the case study of Nablus municipality not only to all the other Palestinian
municipalities but also to other Third and European Countries;
To engage policy makers and government to foster long-term actions to organize
Palestinian stakeholders’ actions in order to favour the foundation of a Palestinian
Civil Protection Mechanism that could follow the future process of vulnerability
mitigation measures (after the project lifetime);
To establish the concepts of risk governance to account for the possibility of
earthquake insurance coverage (considering that the related cost would be reduced if
private initiative in retrofitting wold be taken);
To ensure the maintenance of the Web-Based Platform to collect larger amounts of
data on seismic vulnerability of citizens’ properties first and public buildings next in
order to keep the process of increasing awareness going on after the project lifetime.
To promote new undergraduate and graduate courses on seismic risk mitigation
since the training on this topic will play a fundamental role for the continuation of the
project aims even after its lifetime. For this reasons, additional resources will be found
to organise a new Master programme in Palestine at the An-Najah National University,
covering the topics of seismic risk mitigation. This action is already strongly encouraged
by the Ministry of Education.