Training Of Youth for Preparedness Against Marine Induced Hazards Erasmus Project

Project Title

Training Of Youth for Preparedness Against Marine Induced Hazards

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

TROYO is organized to train youth on the marine hazards through innovative and scientific tools and methods. Main objective is to endeavor a better understanding of marine hazards and their effects of human life and manmade coastal structures and prepare guidelines and online tools for safety and preparedness.
Raising awareness and preparedness against marine hazards are crucial for coastal communities in order to avoid inevitable damages. Hence, young people should be trained and educated about marine hazards, mitigation tools, and disaster management.

The main objective is training of youth by youth on preparedness against marine events and protection of coastal utilization and environment. Gaining enunciable skills will provide young generation to take part actively in training of youth for raising awareness and to be prepared against the coastal effects of marine extremities such as meteorological and hydrological induced coastal inundation and their effects on marine environment and coastal utilization. Target group to be trained will be mainly coastal young populations.
Youth to be trained by young trainers, experts and professionals with the background of even not necessarily from coastal or civil engineering fields. The training program will enhance knowledge and awareness of young people in the marine hazards and enable them to acquire new methods of preparedness against marine hazards and transfer the acquired knowledge directly to younger people through training activities.
In practice, the preparedness against disasters have been carried out through training of mainly professionals, decision makers and stakeholders.

It can also be noted that international organizations such as UNESCO Youth Forum is one of the important youth training activity on disasters which is also taken into account in TROYO activities. Essentially, youth can play an effective role in assisting communities for awareness raising on hazards and their effects on the marine environment by i) sharing information they have learned with their families and friends, ii) helping parents and communities in disaster preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery effort activities and issues, and iii) bringing their creativity to mitigation strategies. Therefore involving youth in prevention, preparedness, recovery, and response efforts activities can help to ensure that youth, families, and communities are better prepared and more able to respond to disasters.

TROYO activities are divided into four Work Packages (WPs). Work packages starts with transfer of scientific knowledge and experience with innovative methods into enunciable knowledge, and then converting enunciable knowledge of marine hazards into training materials for youth and general public, and afterwards training selected youth from universities, and finally facilitating selected youth from universities to train selected people from younger generation.
The work packages are as follows:
Work Package 1: Training Materials for Youth on Marine Hazards
In this work package the experts will collaborate through workshops and meetings and will develop required training materials and tools for general public and youth by considering different training strategies using different methods for different marine hazards and cases from different countries;
Work Package 2: Training of Youth by Experts
In this work package selected experts will train selected youth from university students. Trainers/experts from partners will use training materials (from WP-1) through workshops, lectures and exercises with different case studies in this training program.
Work Package 3: Training of Younger by Trained Youth
In this work package trained youth will train the younger people selected from students (preferable high schools or younger). In this WP, experts will accompany the young trainer as an assistant during training.
Work Package 4: Dissemination activities
This Work Package aimed to disseminate the project outcomes beyond the project duration for further training and awareness raising activities. Dissemination activities will take place to establish a web site, for preparation of training materials and to develop tools for youth and general public (parents, professionals and stakeholders) mainly on practical methods in social preparedness.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 174135 Eur

Project Coordinator

MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY & Country: TR

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO PORTUGUES DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA IP
• UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
• SPECIAL RESEARCH BUREAU FOR AUTOMATION OF MARINE RESEARCHES FAR EAST BRANCH RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
• Tera Ankara Musavirlik Mimarlik Muhendislik Taahhut Ticaret Ltd Sti