GNGTS 2017 - 36° Convegno Nazionale

GNGTS 2017 S essione 2.3 505 Fig. 2 - Short Guide for students: the school. Most common situations and rooms in a school (office of school principle, laboratories, the canteen, the dressing room) are shown and general suggestions are given. The classroom (2b) is addressed in more details showing actions without (2b, left t) and with solutions for NSC vulnerability mitigation (2b, right). environment. This reflects in the variety of deliverables and especially in their tuning to specific backgrounds and needs. Second, the project not only aims at informing but it also pushes to undertake actions ( “Know your school: be safe” and/or Practical Guide and/or Portfolio) to increase safety. Up to now, educative projects were often aiming at taking consciousness of potential damages but seldom were “suggesting” how to mend them with physical actions. This involves additional difficulties in testing the effectiveness of the project. In fact although KnowRISK foresees ex-ante, ex-post validation questionnaires, their results are only limited to the estimate the increased awareness in schools. It is very difficult to check if and how much of the message will be converted by the addressee or their families into safety actions, also because retrofitting takes longer time than “getting informed”. However, being the first project ever, at least in the participating countries, to deal with the matter, we believe that most of the result will mainly depend on the spread of the deliverables and the cooperation of the stakeholders. Acknowledgements This study was co-financed by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (Grant agreement ECHO/SUB/2015/718655/PREV28). References Bruine de Bruin W. and Bostrom, A. (2012). Assessing what to address in science communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 110(3): ������������ ������������ 14062–14068. Fischoff, B. (1995). Risk perception and communication unplugged: twenty years of progress. Risk Anal.;15(2):137- 45 Infanti, J., Sixsmith, J., Barry, M.M., Núñez-Córdoba, J., Oroviogoicoechea-Ortega, C. and Guillén-Grima, F. (2013). A literature review on effective risk communication for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in Europe. Stockholm, ECDC