The main objective of this Knowledge Alliance was to establish an international learning, teaching and knowledge-sharing environment that contributes to the development and professionalisation of leadership and innovation in the field of international safety and security. •The guiding principles were:•Multi Stakeholder collaboration•Co-Creation•Evidence Based Management•International Perspectiv•Allignment between Policy and practiceThe Knowledge Alliance consisted of partners from higher education, private industry, law enforcement, municipalities and NGOs. In particular, it included nine partners representing educational, business and network organisations, as well as agencies from the emergency, crisis, safety and security sectors, each with complementary skills and expertise. Some partners were experts in research, others in education, while others were safety and security professionals across diverse areas and from operational to strategic level. Our project further established a high-profile advisory board consisting of core actors in the security arena that advised on the progress of the project.The main products that were developed during the course of the project were:The main products that were developed during the course of the project were:•A Holistic Executive Master (MSc) programme on International Security Management;•A Horizon Scanning Tool (HST)•A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC);•A Security Multilogue Platform (SMP) Open World Version; a Forum based tool for exchange of ideas within the Msc •A Security Multilogue Platform closed version; a forum tool to incorporate the outcomes of the Horizon Scanning Exercise provide by use of the HST for students of the MSc International Security Management.•A White paper on online co-design of blended learning by using synchronous communication technology;•A book called “International Security Management: New Solutions to Complexity”•A website used for dissemination and presentation of the ISM-KA products called www.ism-ka.euAll ISM-KA main products have been shaped around the MSc programme, which is the core outcome of the ISM-KA project that may represent the main source of income. Indirectly, revenues derived from the MSc programme will cover some expenses of the other ISM-KA main products. All publicly accessible products will be offered through the ISMKA website www.ism-ka.eu and on the Erasmus Plus Project Results Plaform ensuring their visibility and helping with their sustainability. The products are designed to be compatible and complementary to one and another thereby enhancing their users’ knowledge and experience in the safety and security domain. The sections below describe the products that have been developed; the envisaged role for the current consortium partners in the exploitation; and the perceived benefit for the partners to do so. To ensure the exploitation of the products of the ISM-KA each ISM-KA main product will be managed in terms of content update and budget by the partner organisation that has developed it. The main exploitable project outcome being the ISM-KA MSc programme will be, for now, the sole exploitable product in terms of direct revenue. The HST and the SMP – closed version will be hosted by Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and utilised and covered as part of the ISM- MSc programme. The MOOC will remain imbedded on the Coursera platform and any necessary updates will be performed by RSM. For the SMP open world version a source of revenue will be sought trough platform membership fees that will in return cover the future upkeep and sustainability of the platform managed by FORMIT.

Recovery is "the process of rebuilding, restoring and rehabilitating the community following an emergency" (HMG Emergency Response and Recovery, 2013). For COVID-19, recovery will involve all-of society (because everyone in the country has been affected to some extent) and whole-system (because every organisation, service and function has been affected). Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic we have deployed our research expertise in emergency response and recovery to support government. This has involved providing ongoing information about recovery, producing rapid response guides on aspects of response and recovery, and identifying opportunities for research to support the recovery effort. This project builds on this initial work to understand how government develop plans for short-term, transactional 'recovery' and how they think strategically about longer-term, ambitious, transformational change which we call 'renewal'. Objective: This project works closely with resilience partners in three Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) to develop a generalizable, theoretically underpinned framework for how recovery and renewal to COVID-19 can enhance resilience. The framework will: - Take a whole system approach to recovery and renewal (from communities to national levels) - Explore how to manage the changes in people, places and processes that is needed to live with COVID-19 - Address short-term, transactional recovery as well as longer-term, transformational renewal - Complement existing guidance and resilience standards and inform an international standard that we will write on recovery and renewal Approach: The framework will be informed by (and inform) Recovery Coordination Groups (RCGs) by using an action research approach to work closely with the resilience partners and engage with local and national organisations on how they plan recovery and renewal on a system-wide basis. Our partner LRFs have different structures (e.g. for local governance and recovery governance) and characteristics (e.g. partnerships, priorities, populations, local challenges, inequalities) so we can create a framework that is widely applicable to local variations. Activities: We will: - Collect and analyse national/international lessons on recovery and renewal - Gather primary data by interviewing experts across the world on emergency planning, risk, and resilience - Contribute to three Recovery Coordination Groups (RCGs) as well as three specific renewal projects (e.g. on volunteering, community resilience, demand management in emergency services) - Extensively engage with other local and national government organisations to ensure alignment of our framework and exploit ongoing opportunities for impact - Facilitate webinars and training on recovery and renewal for resilience - Develop and test a framework for recovery and renewal, refine it in different contexts (national and international), learn about its application, and use feedback to improve it - Develop and test a methodology to assess the impact of the framework Main deliverables: - A searchable database of lessons for recovery and renewal for local resilience - Expert briefings on how to implement recovery and renewal for resilience - A generalizable, theoretically underpinned, practice-tested framework to support government's thinking about recovery and renewal for resilience - A self-evaluation methodology to reflect on recovery practices - Publish fortnightly 'The Manchester Briefing on Recovery and Renewal' currently distributed directly (and through a network of national/international partners) to 52,000 people along with case studies and training products - International and national standards having a global impact

This innovative interdisciplinary project aims to develop an easy-to-use, evidence-based resource which can be used in decision-making in drought risk management. To achieve this, we will bring together information from drought science and scenario-modelling (using mathematical models to forecast the impacts of drought) with stakeholder engagement and narrative storytelling. While previous drought impact studies have often focused on using mathematical modelling, this project is very different. The project will integrate arts, humanities and social science research methods, with hydrological, meteorological, agricultural and ecological science knowledge through multi-partner collaboration. Seven case study catchments (areas linked by a common water resource) in England, Wales and Scotland will be selected to reflect the hydrological, socio-economic and cultural contrasts in the UK. Study of drought impacts will take place at different scales - from small plot experiments to local catchment scale. Citizen science and stakeholder engagement with plot experiments in urban and rural areas will be used as stimuli for conversations about drought risk and its mitigation. The project will: (i) investigate different stakeholder perceptions of when drought occurs and action is needed; (ii) examine how water level and temperature affect drought perception; (iii) explore the impact of policy decisions on drought management; (iv) consider water users' behaviours which lead to adverse drought impacts on people and ecosystems and; (v) evaluate water-use conflicts, synergies and trade-offs, drawing on previous drought experiences and community knowledge. The project spans a range of sectors including water supply; health, business, agriculture/horticulture, built environment, extractive industries and ecosystem services, within 7 case-study catchments. Through a storytelling approach, scientists will exchange cutting edge science with different drought stakeholders, and these stakeholders will, in turn, exchange their knowledge. Stakeholders include those in: construction; gardeners and allotment holders; small and large businesses; local authorities; emergency planners; recreational water users; biodiversity managers; public health professionals - both physical and mental health; and local communities/public. The stakeholder meetings will capture various data including: - different stakeholder perceptions of drought and its causes - local knowledge around drought onset and strategies for mitigation (e.g. attitudes to water saving, responses to reduced water availability) - insights into how to live with drought and increase individual/community drought resilience - the impact of alternating floods and droughts The information will be shared within, and between, stakeholder groups in the case-studies and beyond using social media. This information will be analysed, and integrated with drought science to develop an innovative web-based decision-making utility. These data will feedback into the drought modelling and future scenario building with a view to exploring a variety of policy options. This will help ascertain present and future water resources availability, focusing on past, present and future drought periods across N-S and W-E climatic gradients. The project will be as far as possible be 'open science' - maintaining open, real-time access to research questions, data, results, methodologies, narratives, publications and other outputs via the project website, updated as the project progresses. Project outputs will include: the decision-making support utility incorporating science-narrative resources; hydrological models for the 7 case-study catchments; a social media web-platform to share project resources; a database of species responses/management options to mitigate drought/post-drought recovery at different scales, and management guidelines on coping with drought/water scarcity at different scales.