Activity 10: Mid –term workshop

 

All the project partners participated in the Mid Term workshop held in Hanoi, Vietnam on  12th June 2005 to review the status and progress of the 1st year activities carried out under CASITA Phase :

The decisions reached at the mid term workshop were

The distance-based course will not be totally Internet based. It would be partly web based and partly interactive. ADPC would be the core agency to operate and moderate the course. The course would be further developed by ITC with inputs from ADPC and BU. 

The trial run of the course on "Multi-hazard risk assessment" to be held in ITC, from 25 April to 12 May 2006.

Technical Support to be provided to the conduct of Master Programme on Disaster Management at (PGIS) in Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka

The marketing of the distance-based course will be done through the existing networks of ADPC, ITC and BU and also of the partner universities. Main lead for this activity will be ADPC

Two short courses each, one on Urban Disaster Mitigation and another one on Damage and Loss estimation, will be conducted in all four partner universities. The timing of these courses have been tentatively decided. ADPC will take the lead in conducting these courses

More emphasis has to be laid on research by Universities and production of research papers. The final output should show, at least one paper from each partner university

The Universities have to show more initiative and should me more proactive

The joint postgraduate programs in IIRS and UGM have already commenced. The other two universities have to take initiative for starting these specialized courses during the project period

The final workshop would be held in Bangkok. The core project team, and selected universities will review the outcome of the project during this workshop. ADPC will be responsible for organization of this workshop

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