The objective of this project is to develop an ICT tool and an organizational concept to collect existing knowledge within the population about infrequent high-impact disasters, so that this knowledge and experience can be used for risk and crisis communication, urban planning, and discussions with relevant stakeholders such as politicians. 

The project's focus is to analyze what disasters truly mean for the everyday lives of citizens: what is the concrete damage caused by the disaster, how it impacts people's safety, well-being, and economic activities, what type of aid was necessary (and what was not provided) in the disaster's aftermath, how the population could have prepared better, how they could have survived the disaster, and what the successful and unsuccessful survival strategies were.

To achieve the project's goal, software will be designed and implemented that can be used to complement quantitative information on disasters with qualitative experiences in the form of life stories narrated by survivors, and historical multimedia documents such as texts, photographs, and videos of disasters.

In order to ensure a critical amount of information is generated and used in all participating regions, an organizational concept for educational institutions such as schools and universities, as well as volunteer organizations, will be developed and tested. The system will be used to create exhibitions on the local relevance of disasters, which can be used to communicate existing risks to citizens and decision-makers alike.