In the last decades health and environmental education has contributed to the significant improvement of life conditions as well an increase in its duration.
We do believe we should also aim at a seismic education: our homes, offices, schools, hospitals can be built or strengthened in order to better respond to a seismic event, in order to reduce, if not eliminate, the risk of damages and collapses.
The Eucentre Foundation aims at increasing, on the one hand, citizens’ awareness of the seismic hazard level of where they live and work; on the other hand, their knowledge of availability of methods and tools capable of improving the resilience of the buildings, in the belief that prevention is the only strategy to limit damage and loss.
Eucentre for Citizens:
Contributes to informing about risks and their reduction
Host schools for lessons on seismic risk
Performs scientific dissemination activities
Offers technical and scientific expertise to the press
Collaborates to the generation of a culture of prevention
Participates in the post-emergency population management
Supports those who can benefit from economic benefits related to risk
