MEDiate

MEDiate (Multi-Hazard and Risk-informed System for Enhanced Local and Regional Disaster Risk Management) will advance beyond the state-of-the art in multi-hazard and risk approaches by developing dynamic and future-centric risk-framing tools that effectively address the decision-making needs of various stakeholders. The tools will be integrated into the computational engine of the MEDiate decision support system, providing sufficient flexibility that will enable different decision makers to tailor the analyses and visualisations.

The MEDiate risk-informed decision support system will be delivered as a user-friendly IT system, allowing end users to model and visualise potential disaster scenarios and understand how potential physical and social actions will influence the scenarios and their communities’ resilience to current and future natural hazards.

Why

Climate change is acting all over the world, in different ways, often causing damage to structures, populations and the environment. MEDiate aims to develop a decision support system for disaster risk management by considering multiple interacting natural hazards and cascading impacts using a novel resilient-informed, service-oriented and people-centred approach that accounts for forecasted modification in the hazard and exposure.

Oslo is vulnerable to several natural hazards and face challenges such as quick clay and flooding. MEDiate develops frameworks, methods and tools that provides knowledge, resilience and risk awareness. Risks at the magnitude natural hazards presents is a multi-layered challenge at agency, sectorial and cross-sectorial levels. The Agency of Emergency Planning of the City of Oslo is participating in the project with the aim to enhance resilience and handling of risk at all levels.

Oslo’ role

Oslo is a testbed in MEDiate, the decision support system will be tested through an exercise in the summer of 2025. Following the exercise the system will be evaluated based on the results from Oslo and three other testbeds in the project.

Partners

18 partners from 8 countries are represented in MEDiate. Four of the partners are local and regional authorities and act as testbeds in the project and 14 partners from STEM and SSH field.

STEM & SSH: • NORSAR (Project Coordinator) • Stichting Deltares • University of Strathclyde • International institute for applied systems analysis • Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières • Eucentre Foundation • University college London • Icelandic meteorological office • Anglia Ruskin University higher education corporation • IMT Mines Albi-Carmaux – Ècole Mines-Télécom • Haskoli Islands – University of Iceland • R2M solution • RINA Consulting S.p.A • IUSS – Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia Testbeds: • City of Oslo • Essex County Council • Metropole Nice-Côte d’Azur • Austurbru municipality

Contact: Agency for emergency planning: postmottak@ber.oslo.kommune.no

The project is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe framework programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the City of Oslo only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Research Executive Agency.