GNGTS 2024 - Atti del 42° Convegno Nazionale

Session 2.3 GNGTS 2024 Schools-tailored actvites to communicate seismic risk M. G. Sestto 1 , S. Zidarich 1 , E. Ferrari 1 , M. Longoni 1 , F. Varcheta 1 , F. Meroni 1 , S. Lovat 1 , D. Piccarreda 1 , L. Zarrilli 2 , S. Puccillo 2 , M. Massa 1 , S. Mirenna 1 , A. Goret 3 , G. Musacchio 1 1 Sezione di Milano, Isttuto Nazionale di Geofsica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Milan, Italy 2 Sezione Irpinia, Isttuto Nazionale di Geofsica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Milan, Italy 3 Dipartmento della Protezione Civile (DPC), Rome, Italy INTRODUCTION Risk communicaton is a crucial element in the management of risks: it has a great potental to raise awareness, increase preparedness, and promote legislatve interventons. Uncertainty, lack of scientfc knowledge, misunderstanding, misinformaton, cognitve bias, and distrust in authorites are among the major threats of efectve risk communicaton. Nonetheless recent studies have highlighted that seismic risk communicaton practces have been increasing during the last decades although stll more work needs to be done (Musacchio et al., 2023). There are diferent models of risk communicaton: the majority refer to the public understanding paradigm, in which informaton are given in a “one-way” directon to the public, and to the public engagement paradigm, in which stakeholders are meant to partcipate in the building process of knowledge. In preparing a risk communicaton campaign, the school target has revealed as one of the most important to address, given its high potental to infuence a risk-resilient society (Musacchio & Solarino, 2019). In this paper, actvites to communicate seismic risk communicaton specifcally designed to engage middle school students are presented. Science communicaton with teen audiences has a unique challenge: there is a fundamental need to design actvites that can help them feel involved. The work presents the framework within which the actvity is done. It describes the communicaton goals, learning methodology and present some of the actvites that have been included in a format suitable for open-door outreach events. The actvites discussed in this work were tested within two open-doors events that were held at the Milano division of the Natonal Insttute for Geophysics and Volcanology in the year 2023.