Centre for Risk and Crisis Management

The ZRK brings together national and international organisations (profit and non-profit organisations) active in this field in order to initiate, organise, develop, operate and represent training, research and development as well as operational application (operation & consulting) in the subject area in question together with the members of the association in order to support innovative and evidence-based strategic organisational development, management and control.

The ZRK Centre for Risk and Crisis Management is an excellent partner for leadership, risk and crisis management in education and research at university and non-university level as well as excellence in consulting and operations for innovative and evidence-based organisational development, management and control.

The ZRK acts at least as a cooperation platform for national and international universities, companies and other organisations and can be designed and used by them in order to be able to work on the subject area in its entirety and complexity.

The ZRK was founded as an association in 2007. For example, it jointly represents scientific, economic, technical, social and legal aspects of risk, security and crisis management (national & international); promotes the topic of risk, security and crisis management (national & international) and influences the consistent application of the recognised state of the art in science and technology and participates in the development of national and international regulations, standards and recommendations for action and their updating for quality assurance in the field of risk, security and crisis management (national & international) as part of strategic and operational organisational development, management and control.

The experts and cooperation partners of the ZRK -currently 45- support companies and organisations in all sectors and industries in this area and, in particular, expertise in the ZRK specialist areas and competence networks/centers.

The changes towards a regional, supranational and/or global resilient economy, taking into account regional to global supply chain network risks, can only succeed if all aspects of societal, environmental, economic, political, public and cyber security are taken into account as principles of a circular economy - from the extraction of raw materials, along all refinement processes to the customer and the disposal/reuse of products. This applies to the adaptation of existing products and, in particular, to the development of new and innovative products and services that contain these principles as a kind of "genetic code". This is why we are a partner in the joint Circular Economy Forum Austria.

Johannes Göllner, Member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Risk and Crisis Management