PURPOSE: To provide an intensive one-week immersion into resilience engineering. The summer school will feature a mixture of lectures and group work.

BACKGROUND: Resilience engineering has during the last 4-6 years been developed as a complement to established safety management approaches. Resilience engineering however goes beyond classical safety issues by recognising that safety and business (production) are intrinscally linked. The aim of resilience engineering is to develop ways (models and methods) to improve an organisation’s ability to succeed under varying conditions, thereby improving both safety and daily operations.

PARTICIPANTS: Doctoral students, researchers and academics who actively work with the development of models and methods to improve safety. Also practitioners from industries, who in their daily work are involved with or responsible for safety in their organisations. To ensure an effective summer school, the number of participants will be limited to around 20. If the summer school is oversubscribed, participants will be selected to achieve an optimal mixture of countries, cultures, and application domains. A mandatory application form is provided below.

FACULTY: Erik Hollnagel, Nick McDonald, Jean Paries, John Wreathall.

SUMMER SCHOOL FEE: Around 2.800,00 Euro (to be confirmed). The summer school fee will include accommodation and meals from dinner on Sunday July 19 to breakfast on Saturday July 25. The fee also includes tutorials and materials.

IMPORTANT DATES. Deadline for submission of application: January 10, 2009.