[ About RESILIA ]

Becoming More Resilient Together

RESILIA strengthens the ability of people, organizations, and institutions to better deal with uncertainty, disruptions, and crises. To achieve this, the project connects research, civil protection, technology, and education in a common Innovation Hub.

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[ Our Mission ]

Making Resilience Understandable, Practical and Experienced Together

Crises do not only begin in states of emergency. Even in everyday life, supply shortages, technical failures, or lack of information can cause uncertainty. RESILIA addresses exactly this: The project develops solutions that prepare people, connect organizations, and strengthen collaboration in complex situations. The goal is to make crisis preparedness tangible. In the resilience labs, risks, decisions, and courses of action are not only explained but practiced, reflected upon, and further developed in realistic formats.

[ Why RESILIA? ]

New Risks Require New Forms of Preparation

Societal risks are becoming more complex. Global crises, hybrid threats, local emergencies, and technical dependencies often occur simultaneously and affect many areas of everyday life. Being prepared for this requires more than information: it needs experiential spaces, training, and a shared understanding of responsibility.

Therefore, RESILIA brings together different perspectives. Population, authorities, organizations, research, and application learn from each other and jointly experiment with how resilience can be strengthened in everyday life and crises.

[ How RESILIA is Structured ]

An Innovation Hub with Three Resilience Labs

The RESILIA Innovation Hub consists of three interconnected resilience labs: a stationary lab in Berlin, a mobile lab for on-site deployment, and a digital lab in virtual space. Together, they form an environment for learning, demonstration, and testing of societal resilience.

All three labs pursue a common goal: to enable people and organizations to better understand risks, practice actions practically, and strengthen collaboration in challenging situations.

Berlin

In-Person Resilience Lab Berlin

At Berlin Ostbahnhof, a place is being created where people can practically experience crisis preparedness. Through interactive scenarios, training, and game-based formats, it becomes tangible how to remain capable of action in emergencies — alone, together, or in collaboration with civil protection actors.

Mobile

Mobile Resilience Lab

The mobile lab brings the core content of the InnoHub directly to municipalities, administrations, organizations, and operators of critical infrastructures. This allows for training, scenarios, and exchange formats to take place where they are needed.

Digital

Digital Resilience Lab

The digital lab makes resilience education accessible regardless of location. It offers digital learning and simulation games for different age groups and life situations — including for people who cannot participate on-site.

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[ Knowledge Becomes Action ]

Developing, Testing, and Improving in Realistic Settings

RESILIA combines scientific insights with practical application. In the labs, scenarios, training sessions, serious games, digital systems, and new security solutions are developed, tested, and evaluated.

A digital twin connects the resilience labs and helps to realistically depict complex crisis situations. This creates a research and training environment where human behavior, communication, decision-making processes, and technical systems can be collectively considered.

[ The Consortium ]

Many Perspectives. One Common Goal.

RESILIA is supported by a consortium of fire services, disaster research, artificial intelligence, communication systems, psychology, social behavior research, and security research. The partners contribute different competencies – from operational practice and public education to simulation, digital twin, and scientific evaluation.

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Berlin Fire Department

Coordination of the joint project, experience as a research-based disaster protection authority, and development of gamified solutions to enhance resilience.

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academy-of-the-disaster-research-center

Conception and design of target group-sensitive educational offerings to promote risk competence.

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Free University of Berlin

Expertise in mobile communication systems, technical vulnerabilities, and robust information and communication chains.

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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Development of the digital twin, Cognitive Social Simulation, Serious Gaming, and Analysis of Decision-Making Processes.

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Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

Research on civil-military cooperation, communication, decision-making processes, hybrid intelligence, and AI-supported training systems.

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[ Project Funding ]

Funded Under Germany's Hightech Agenda

The project "Innovation Hub to Strengthen Societal Resilience" is funded under Germany's Hightech Agenda through the Federal Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality.

Project Duration

January 2026 to December 2029

[ What RESILIA Stands For ]

Innovation, Pragmatism, and Cohesion

RESILIA combines new ideas with concrete applications. The project develops formats that remain understandable, function practically, and bring people together – in everyday life, in preparedness, and in crises.

Innovation

RESILIA uses research, technology, and new learning formats to make crisis preparedness a different experience.

Pragmatism

The focus is on solutions that are understandable, applicable, and close to real challenges.

Cohesion

Resilience arises together – through exchange, trust, and collaboration between the public, organizations, research, and practice.

[ Contact ]

Would You Like to Learn More About RESILIA?

For questions about the project, the RESILIA Innovation Hub, or potential collaborations, you can contact the RESILIA team.

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Experience Resilience Practically

Get to know the three resilience labs and discover how RESILIA connects crisis preparedness, training, and research.

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