SUDEM
Sustainable Disaster and Emergency Management Processes Digitization
Erasmus+ KA220-HED Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education
Project facts block
- Project duration: 1 November 2023 – 30 April 2026
- Programme: Erasmus+
- Action: KA220-HED – Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education
- Project number: 2023-1-BG01-KA220-HED-000159479
- Coordinator: Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
- Consortium countries: Bulgaria, Germany, Ukraine, the Netherlands
- Associated partner: AFAD, Türkiye
- Budget: EUR 250,000
SUDEM Consortium
The SUDEM project is implemented by an international consortium of universities, research institutes, and industry partners. Researchers, educators, and practitioners work together to develop innovative educational resources, digital learning tools, and research-based solutions supporting the digital transformation of disaster and emergency management.
Intro
SUDEM – Sustainable Disaster and Emergency Management Processes Digitization is an Erasmus+ cooperation project focused on improving disaster and emergency management preparedness through digitalisation, interdisciplinary education, and modern decision-support technologies.
The project establishes and validates a novel higher education and lifelong learning knowledge transfer model and curriculum focused on the digitalisation of the full disaster and emergency management lifecycle. SUDEM brings together expertise in disaster monitoring and management, AI, IoT, data science, remote sensing, drones, data fusion, resilience, and digital decision-making support to help prepare a new generation of professionals capable of responding to increasingly complex natural, technological, and societal hazards.
SUDEM responds to the growing impact of climate change, urbanisation, infrastructure vulnerability, and complex emergency risks by developing an open digital learning platform, a multidisciplinary curriculum, a foresight-based educational framework, and policy-oriented outputs for higher education and lifelong learning.
Why SUDEM matters
Disaster and emergency management today requires more than traditional response procedures. It increasingly depends on digital monitoring, live data, remote sensing, resilient communication systems, AI-assisted analytics, IoT-supported infrastructure, and informed multi-level decision-making. SUDEM addresses these needs by connecting education, digitalisation, and practical disaster management expertise.
What SUDEM delivers
- a strategic foresight framework for sustainable disaster management;
- a higher education and lifelong learning curriculum with 12 interdisciplinary courses;
- a digital learning and quality feedback environment;
- a validated knowledge transfer model;
- communication, dissemination, and policy recommendations;
- academic, methodological, and long-term sustainability outputs.
Access the SUDEM Learning Platform
The SUDEM digital learning platform provides access to project learning materials, curriculum content, and online educational resources developed within the project.
Main target groups
- students in higher education;
- academic staff and trainers;
- lifelong learning participants;
- disaster and emergency management professionals;
- public authorities and institutions involved in safety, resilience, and emergency response;
- decision-makers and organisations responsible for critical infrastructure and crisis management.