Collaboration for HORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-02: Resilient and secure urban planning and new tools for EU territorial entities

Prof. Balcik can contribute to the project with her extensive background and experience in humanitarian logistics research, especially in formulating and solving disaster preparedness and emergency response problems under uncertainty.

Prof. Balcik has significant contextual knowledge on disaster preparedness and emergency response, and access to organizational contacts and actual data related to disaster preparedness and response nationally and globally.  Being in Istanbul, which is a highly populated metropolitan city prone to earthquakes and involves different population groups and communities, such as millions of refugees, she has access to public and non-profit organizations and data from a unique context. She also has case study data sets (involving disaster scenarios compiled from historical data) for other disaster preparedness and emergency response contexts in different regions of the works.

Prof. Balcik has close connections with national and international humanitarian and disaster management actors.

Depending on the focus of the Horizon project, besides her methodological expertise, she can offer a variety of resources and connections to contribute to the project in multiple ways.