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“Know your school: be safe!” is a risk communication campaign, within the KnowRISK (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements) project, involving schools in three European countries, namely Portugal, Italy and Iceland. Its main aim is to facilitate school communities’ access to experts’ knowledge on non-structural seismic risk reduction. In Italy we implemented a learning strategy to capture young people attention. We believe students will be influential in turning scientific knowledge to practical know-how. The strategy is based on Situated Learning Episode (EAS), where homework is for learning and skills, and classwork is for reworking and understanding. The KnowRISK-EAS starts and ends with two focus groups where students, and experts rework concepts and discuss best practices. Students are asked to implement a communication product addressing their peers. The assignment has a double goal: it helps to activate reflexive learning; it will be a project tool to trigger risk reduction attitude within schools communities.
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This study was co-financed by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (Grant agreement ECHO/SUB/2015/718655/PREV28). We are grateful to Calogero Daidone and Vincenzo Melillo from the Provincial Fire Brigade Department of La Spezia for kindly allowing Alessandro Frione, Paolo Trolese, Simone Pedretti, Fabio Bardelli to be part of KnowRISK team contributing to enrich the focus groups with emotional learning activities (unpublished photos in areas stroke by earthquakes, rescue experience of seismic disasters and precious safety advices). Many thanks to all the school heads, teachers and students of the Middle school “J. Piaget” and “U. Mazzini” of La Spezia, “F. Poggi” of Lerici and “P. Mantegazza” of San Terenzo, “G. B. Monteggia” of Laveno Mombello (Varese), of the Scientific Lyceum and Classic Lyceum “Parentuccelli-Arzelà” of Sarzana and of the Lyceum “Sacro Monte” of Varese. We would thanks also the Scientific Lyceum “A. Pacinotti” of La Spezia for the collaboration in testing the new Ex-ante and Ex-post survey by the Actions D3 and E5. Thanks to the Portuguese KonwRisk team and to the school heads, teachers and students of the “Padre António Vieira” School of Lisbon to support the exchange of the intervention protocol with the Italian students of the Middle school “J. Piaget” of La Spezia.
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Musacchio, G., Eva, E., Piangiamore, G.L. (2019). The KnowRISK Action for Schools: A Case Study in Italy. In: Rupakhety, R., Olafsson, S., Bessason, B. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. ICESD 2017. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78187-7_34
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