ESRC 2024

The European Students Research Conference for Risk, Safety and Security took place online on 22 November 2024. More than 170 people attended ESRC 2024 to learn more about safety and security. Last year there was also a call for posters, where we invited students and graduates to present their research on safety and security in the form of scientific posters.

We had a remarkable programme and were delighted to have the Deputy Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe and Central Asia, Sebastien Penzini, join us at the conference with a video message.

You can watch the ESRC 2024 in full length here ESRC 2024

ESRC 2024 - Video Download

Thanks to the active support of the jury members, the good cooperation with the universities, the submitted posters and the great contributions of the finalists, we were able to successfully organise the second conference.

The last jury members

Jury Safety	Jury Security
Anne Bergmans	Yung-Fang Chen
Francesca Larese Filon	Javier Dorado Ferrer (speaker)
Bruno Manuel dos Santos de Castro Martins	Leah Fox
Jorge Rafael Nogueira Raposo	Sanja Kalambura
Johnny Reis (speaker)	Vincenz Leuchner
André Filipe Branco Rodrigues	Claudia Morsut
Maria Sydnes	Ana Paula Oliveira
Gert Van der Sypt	Evelien Platje

Participating Universities:

Coventry University	England
FH Campus Wien University of Applied Sciences	Austria
ISEC Lisboa - Higher Institute of Education and Sciences	Portugal
Lusófona University	Portugal
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway	Norway
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain
University of Antwerp	Belgium
University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica	Croatia
University of Genoa	Italy
University of Stavanger	Norway
University of Trieste	Italy
Utrecht University	Netherlands
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava	Czechia

Winners of the best-rated posters

Session Risk

WINNER - Matilda Graffione (University of Genoa, Italy): GIS-based analysis of landslides predisposing factors along the Italian Railway Network (Bachelor Thesis)

Tommaso Perucchio and Dario Colombo (University of Genoa, Italy): Seismic risk assessment of residential buildings in the Foce district of Genoa (Bachelor Thesis)

Sallu Jaward (Coventry University, United Kingdom): Assessment of Flooding Vulnerability in Sierra Leone using an Indicator-based Approach (Master Thesis)

Session Safety and Security

WINNER - Tori Ceusters (University of Antwerp, Belgium): Stress and safety performance in the transportation of radioactive materials - A mixed methods research (Master Thesis)

Ambra Lorenzini (University of Trieste, Italy): Evaluation of environmental contamination and skin exposure with Gallium Arsenide Nanoparticles in Laboratory of Research (Bachelor Thesis)

Elia Buttolo (University of Trieste, Italy): Airborne Exposure Assessment to Gallium Arsenide Nanoparticles in a Research Laboratory (Bachelor Thesis)