CABARET is a European Union-funded research project that focuses on resilience and the vulnerabilities of the built environment, with partners from Europe and Asia. The CABARET Project (Capacity Building in Asia for Resilience EducaTion), aims to strengthen research and innovation capacity for the development of societal resilience to disasters. The project, will provide support to build capacity for international and regional cooperation between Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in Asia (region 6) and Europe, and among Asian HEIs themselves, to improve multi-hazard early warning (MHEW) and increase disaster resilience among coastal communities. In doing so, CABARET focuses on a subject area and a world region not sufficiently addressed by projects already being funded under previous schemes.
CABARET is a three year project co-funded by an EU Erasmus+ programme grant, led by the University of Huddersfield’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre, based in the UK. The University of Malta is a partner in the project consortium of 15 European and Asian higher education institutions from Bulgaria, Indonesia, Latvia, Maldives, Malta, Myanmar, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka and the UK. Further the project works with 3 associate partners of Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), IOC/UNESCO and the Federation of the Local Governments Association in Sri Lanka.
Over three years, the CABARET consortium has the objective to identify research and innovative capacity needs across Asian higher education institutions in Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippine and Sri Lanka, to built capacity to broaden early warning to provide a comprehensive, multi-hazard framework.
The new UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, agreed by member states in 2015, includes a strong call for higher education to support the understanding of disaster risk and promote risk-informed decisions and risk sensitive planning from the local to the global levels.
Researchers and educators must work at the regional level, and with policy-makers and practitioners to co-design and co-produce research that can be used effectively. Higher education must also play a vital role in translating that research into action through its educational programmes. Capacity should be developed through scientific research and development of knowledge bases as well as through education and training.
More information is available on the . The focal point for CABARET at the University of Malta is Prof. Ruben Paul Borg, Faculty for the Built Environment.