Our society is changing due to constant external events. In this 1/2 year multidisciplinary minor programme, you will acquire a broad overview of external events impacting society and discover how to respond and act. You will learn how to professionally deal with disruptive events in society, such as natural disasters, migration, terrorist attacks and climate change.

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How would you respond?

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PROGRAMME
This minor programme is framed around 2 modules and
in total 11 courses of in total 30 ECTS. During the 2
modules you will learn to understand different types of
events with a disruptive impact on society.
CURRICULUM
Module 1: Disaster Risk Reduction 14 ECTS
• Experimenting with innovative technologies in emergency response
• Precasting global flood and drought risk usingGIS
• System thinking in disaster resilience and recovery
• Climate change impacts
• Epidemic disaster response and prevention
Module 2: Migration, policy and practice 14 ECTS
•Trend analysis in resilience
• Understanding migration dynamics, governance and policy
• Participative research in refugee/migrant camp
• Ethics and migration
• Preventing, Detecting and Responding to theViolent ExtremistThreat
General: 2 ECTS
• Professional in a disruptive event
• Exhibition of results

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STUDY BACKGROUND
Students from any bachelor background can apply.To ensure the
multidisciplinarity of the program tutors also have different
backgrounds.This enables you to understand disruptive events from
different perspectives

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COLLABORATION
This minor programme is a collaboration between 3
academies of Avans University of Applied Sciences; Built
Environment and Infrastructure, Governance and Security,
andTechnology of Health and Environment.The programme
is hosted by theAcademy for Built Environment and
Infrastructure.
Many partners from the field contribute to our programme
with workshops, excursions, lectures.This will allow you to
understand the profound complexity of disruptive events and
you will be able to understand what it means for you in the
future. Some of the partners are; Firefighters, Dutch army,
Red Cross, Migrant reception centres, Cordaid, Province
Noord-Brabant, Municipality Breda, NatuurMonumenten,TU
Eindhoven andTU Delft.

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LANGUAGE:
The programme will be fully in English in 2020.
International discourse is valuable for the understanding
of the complexity of problems that Europe and the
Netherlands are facing. Therefore, we especially
welcome students from abroad to bring their experience
and perspectives.

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AVANS:
Avans University of Applied Sciences is the best
university of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands for
already many years. The quality of the education and the
services of the school are outstanding. Avans has the
ambition to prepare students for the insecurities that the
future might bring. This minor program enables you to
be prepared for the unexpected.

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TUTORS:
The minor program will be guided by an experienced team
of tutors with different background. All of them have
experience working with and in disruptive events. The team
is open minded, hands-on, proactive and able to facilitate
multidisciplinary collaborations. Tutors have a background
in among others; security studies, architecture, business
administration, geography, environmental sciences,
politics, social studies, development studies. All tutors have
years of educating experience.

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MODULE 1
Disaster Risk Reduction

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EXPERIMENTING WITH INNOVATIVE
TECHNOLOGIES IN EMERGENCY
RESPONSE

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PRECASTING GLOBAL FLOOD AND
DROUGHT RISK USING GIS

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SYSTEM THINKING IN DISASTER RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY

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CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT

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EPIDEMIC DISASTER RESPONSE AND PREVENTION

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MODULE 1
Migration, policy and practice

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TREND ANALYSIS IN RESILIENCE

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UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION DYNAMICS, GOVERNANCE AND POLICY

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PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH IN A REFUGEE / MIGRANT CAMP
The study trip is a fixed part of this minor program. If you subscribe for the minor
program you will also join the field trip. Earlier field trips have been to the tent
camps in Calais, the refugee camps on the Greek island Lesbos, the Italian city
Palermo, the migrant and conflict situation in Bosnia. Seeing the situation with your
own eyes will improve your understanding of the complexity. Next year we will go
to Bosnia again and you have an additional opportunity to study sea contamination
in Finland.

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PREVENTING, DETECTING AND
RESPONDING TO THE VIOLENT
EXTREMIST THREAT

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ETHICS AND MIGRATION
“Refugee shelter in the region, is
that a good idea?”

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PREVENTING, DETECTING AND RESPONDING TO THE VIOLENT EXTREMIST THREAT

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MORE INFORMATION?
• Visit us at the Avans Minor market (28th Jan in Breda
or 5 Feb Den Bosch).
• Look at the online version of the study trip magazine
of Lesbos.
• Mail us with your questions: minoren.abi@avans.nl
(general), e.hendriks3@avans.nl (content related)
SUBSCRIBE:
• Via this link you can find more details and subscribe.

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For more details check:
https://www.kiesopmaat.nl/modules/avans/AB_I/139757/
Are you ready for this exiting opportunity?
Apply now and start in august 2020 in Den Bosch and Breda!
For more details check:
https://www.kiesopmaat.nl/modules/avans/AB_I/139757/