Emergency Preparedness Organizations and Crisis Response

Knowledge:

• Thorough knowledge on how the public and private emergency preparedness system is organized and collaborates, and on the critical factors influencing emergency response
• Advanced knowledge about theoretical approaches for studying emergency preparedness organizations, organizational learning and strategic competence management
• Knowledge about the importance of competence development within emergency preparedness

Skills:

• Be able to recognize types of incident and to analyze emergency preparedness systems based on different theoretical approaches
• Be able to utilize theoretical approaches to solve practical challenges within preparedness organization, organizational learning and strategic competence management for emergency preparedness 
• Be able to plan, arrange and evaluate different training approaches and exercises aiming at competence development

General competences:

• Be able to acquire and learn from research literature within organizational theory, learning and competence development of relevance for emergency preparedness organizations
• Be able to assess different academic approaches on emergency preparedness organization for crisis response
• Be able to work independently and with others on the course's topics in emergency response, organizational learning and evaluation.