Contribute and collaborate

Opportunities from and for disaster risk reduction professionals.

This is your online notice board to stay informed and engage with the global disaster risk reduction (DRR) community. Here we share important professional opportunities, calls to action, and collaborative possibilities for professionals, organisations, and experts dedicated to reducing disaster risks.

Whether you're contributing insights, participating in events, or submitting your own initiatives, your involvement is key to driving meaningful progress in DRR. Explore opportunities to connect, learn, and take action to help build a more resilient world.

Share your professional opportunity.

Follow PreventionWeb on LinkedIn

Valerii_M/Shutterstock
Opportunities
Call for papers: Addressing challenges of hazards, risks, and disaster management in mountain regions

The international peer-reviewed journal Mountain Research and Development is looking for trans- and interdisciplinary contributions

Mountain Research and Development
fiskes/Shuterstock
Opportunities
Call for abstracts: Transformational risk management and loss and damage

At the INQUIMUS 2021 workshop scientists and practitioners will advance in cross-fertilization scientific concepts, methods and tools.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg
Jeiner Huete_P/Shutterstock
Opportunities
Extreme events in human evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene

This research topic welcomes contributions from across relevant disciplines, including but not limited to the Earth Sciences, Geography and Environmental History.

Mila Supinskaya Glashchenko/Shutterstock
Opportunities
Disability and disasters award

This award supports people with disabilities working in disasters, as well as those who care for, study, or advocate on behalf of those with disabilities.

Natural Hazards Center
ymphotos/Shutterstock
Opportunities
NEEDS 2021: Imagining future disasters: Call for panels and colloquia

Welcome to submit your proposal by 28 February 2021.

Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies
sunsinger/Shutterstock
Opportunities
Innovative climate risk insurance wanted – 5th Call for Proposals of the ISF is open now!

The 5th Call for Proposals of the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) is open until 16 April 2021 at 23:59 CET.

InsuResilience Global Partnership
Bannafarsai_Stock/Shutterstock
Opportunities
Dr. P.K. Mishra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, India, and Rt Hon Alok Sharma, President COP 26, jointly launch “CDRI Resilient Infrastructure Marketplace” and “Youth for Resilient Infrastructure” essay competition

The Marketplace provides space for public and private sector solution providers to showcase their knowledge or technology products online.

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
josh.tagi/Shutterstock
Opportunities
ADRC21 call for abstracts extended

AIDR has extended the call for abstracts for the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference to be held in Sydney in August this year.

Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR)
Amanita Silvicora/Shutterstock
Opportunities
Building a global database of CCA solutions for mountain regions

Participate in this open-access database which aims to share adaptation solutions in a structured, easy-to-search way that acknowledges solutions developer.

weADAPT
MintArt/Shutterstock
Opportunities
SDG: Submit good practices

A second open call for SDG good practices, success stories and lessons learned in the implementation of 2030 Agenda is now open from 2 December 2020 to 28 February 2021.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)