The French Association for Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (AFPCN) and the German Committee for Disaster Reduction e. V. (DKKV) maintain an ongoing collaboration and have carried out joint efforts to leverage various cooperation activities and exchanged good practices between their members, as parts of the civil society segments of their respective National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Based on the successful first WebTalk of AFPCN and DKKV, this format will now be expanded by including the Disaster Network Austria (DCNA) to strengthen the European cooperation links and the exchange of expertise and best-practices.

Flood disaster and hydro-meteorological events are getting more severe all over Europe. In preparation to the Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge panellists from DKKV, AFPCN, and DCNA will present lessons-learned and lessons-to-learn from recent disaster from their respective countries. Structured along three main questions it will be discussed how we can learn from past events and what transformations are required to achieve a more resilient future within Europe.