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CIDR Symposium 2025
"Complex situations, new answers - Interdisciplinary perspectives on the disaster control of the future"
November 14, 2025, starting at 13:00, RPTU Kaiserslautern
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Goals and areas of expertise
The Center for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research is an association of research groups in the field of disaster research at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. The aim is to utilize the potential of interdisciplinary research between technology, economics and education. Our specific expertise covers the following areas:
Education in civil protection
disaster management
Resilience in flood risk management
Latest news
New article by apl. Prof. Anja Danner-Schröder on "Reconstruction after crises" in the Journal of Management Studies
In the study "Embodied connection work: The role of the lived body in routine recreation in extreme contexts", apl. Prof. Dr. Anja Danner-Schröder and her co-authors Ass. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Sele and Dr. Christian Mahringer investigated the role of the 'lived body' in establishing new routines in and after extreme contexts. The authors studied Restaurant Nolla, a zero-waste gourmet restaurant in Helsinki, during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that embodied connection work plays an essential role in establishing new ways of working. In particular, it shows how this active process of establishing connections between actors and actions consists of different practices ('embodied imagining', 'embodied protecting') that enable the reintegration of stakeholders and the recomposition of actions. The study was published in the FT-50 Journal of Management Studies.
Link to the study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joms.13113
Cooperations
Science
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Free University of Berlin
- Geo Research Center Potsdam
- Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, (United States)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Medical School Hamburg
- Free University of Berlin
- Berlin University of Technology
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
- Mines Tech, Paris (France)
- RWTH Aachen University
- Berlin University of Technology
- Braunschweig University of Technology
- Dortmund University of Technology
- Dresden University of Technology
- Munich University of Technology
- Umeå University (Sweden)
- Environmental Research Center Leipzig
- University of Hamburg
- Universitae Politehnica Timisoara (Romania)
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
- Université de Lorraine (France)
- University College London (Great Britain)
- University of Namibia (Namibia)
- University of Queensland (Australia)
- University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Warwick Business School (Great Britain)
- et al.
Practice
- Professional fire departments Kaiserslautern, Magdeburg, Neuwied and others
- Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
- Deutsche Bahn InfraGO
- German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)
- Emschergenossenschaft/Lippeverband
- Düsseldorf Fire Brigade
- Hamburg Fire Brigade
- Flood Competence Center Cologne
- Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management (LHW)
- Technical Relief Organization, SEEBA, local associations Sinzig, Euskirchen, Achim and others
- West Palatinate Clinic Kaiserslautern
- and others