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Zurich is preparing the public for emergencies through \u2018Resilience Weeks\u2019 <\/p>\n
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Greater resilience in the face of heatwaves, severe weather or pandemics: through its \u2018Resilience Weeks\u2019, the City of Zurich is aiming to better prepare the public for crises.\n<\/p>\n
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Among other things, participants will learn where they can access drinking water in an emergency.<\/p>\n
The City of Zurich has already made extensive preparations for managing various crises, it said in a press release on Tuesday. However, the public can also play a part in ensuring a successful crisis response. That is why the so-called Resilience Weeks will take place in October at six community centres across the city of Zurich.<\/p>\n
During these events, residents of the city of Zurich can find out where to get help, relevant information and access to drinking water in an emergency. They will also learn about the system of emergency water points and emergency meeting points.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Read more: Swiss study: five easy ways to stay cool in hot weather Through interactive activities, the public can, for example, experience a simulated power cut or take part in a guided tour to strengthen their individual resilience \u2013 that is, their personal ability to cope.<\/p>\n The city is running this four-year pilot project in collaboration with the Zurich Community Centres Foundation. The Resilience Weeks were organised for the first time in 2025. The Risk Dialogue Foundation and the Centre for Crisis Competence at the University of Zurich are supporting the project and conducting a scientific evaluation of it.<\/p>\n \n More<\/p>\n \n Opinion <\/p>\n More <\/p>\n Climate adaptation\n <\/p>\n What Switzerland needs to learn from earlier and longer heatwaves <\/p>\n This content was published on <\/p>\n Jul 14, 2026 <\/p>\n The exceptional heatwave in June highlighted the difficulties in coping with these new climatic extremes, says climatologist Sonia Seneviratne. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read more: What Switzerland needs to learn from earlier and longer heatwaves +\u00a0How we produce news in English<\/a> Articles in this story <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zurich is preparing the public for emergencies through \u2018Resilience Weeks\u2019 Keystone-SDA Greater resilience in the face of heatwaves,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,312,100,103,51],"class_list":["post-120292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-article","tag-beat-various","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117156340590692603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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