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Risk, taught as one connected system

Water, finance, health, infrastructure, technology and governance, and the systems that join them, taught as one field: free to study, worked on live models, open data and twins of real places, with every result stating its source and date.

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01Why

Why learn on twins of real places

Risk couples across water, finance, health, infrastructure and governance.

Faculties9each teaching on a twin of one real place
Courses11722 open, 95 in preparation
Rêyan14ordered routes for a role
Streams5from foundation to Nexus-based risk management
Levels4L1 to L4, one per course

Counts from the Academy course index, generated from the curriculum snapshot and the atlas (2026). A course in preparation is listed with its status; a completion record does not certify competence.

02How learning runs

How learning runs, as a process you can run

Select a scenario and press Play: course, pathway, practice, faculty, cells and record.

03Faculties

Nine faculties, joined by cross-faculty programmes

05Live map

Hazards now in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Flood water, active fires, heavy rain and smoke, beside where people live, over the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

Nexşeya înteraktîf JavaScript hewce dike; lîsteya qatan û çavkanî li jêr in.

Qat 3

Hazards now

About this layer
Delîl
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Çavkanî
VIIRS Global Flood Product (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Çareserî
about 250 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Delîl
Observed (clouds and overpass timing leave gaps)
Çavkanî
VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS) (NASA LANCE FIRMS)
Provider
NASA LANCE FIRMS
Licence
Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite detection; clouds and overpass timing leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-13
Çareserî
about 500 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite hot-spot detections for the day shown, including gas flares and industrial heat; not a confirmed fire, an incident report or a warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Delîl
Estimated
Çavkanî
GPM IMERG (NASA GES DISC)
Provider
NASA GES DISC
Licence
Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite estimate, near real time
Newest at build
2026-10-12
Çareserî
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite estimate, near real time. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Delîl
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Çavkanî
VIIRS NOAA-20 Deep Blue AOD (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite retrieval; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Çareserî
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite measure of haze, smoke and dust through the whole air column on the day shown; an exposure indicator, not ground-level PM2.5, an air quality index or a health warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Delîl
Estimated
Çavkanî
Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University))
Provider
NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Vintage
null; Census-based estimate, static (2020)
Çareserî
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Census-based estimate of people per square kilometre in 2020, shown as exposure context; not a count of people affected by any hazard.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map

Ya herî dawî ya heyî

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

Wêneyên herî nû yên NASA tê barkirin.

Bikişîne da ku bilivîne. Ctrl an ⌘ û zivirandin, pincandin an bişkojkan ji bo nêzîkkirinê; ji bo nirxên di bin nîşanderê de li ser bisekine; vegerandin vedigere herêmê.

Hazards now, framed on the Hindu Kush Himalaya.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · U.S. Geological SurveySources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • Berhemên VIIRS yên hema dema rast (lehî, germahiya rûyê erdê, berfa li erdê, refleksiya rastkirî), NASA LANCE; wêne bi NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine kişandin; nirx li şaneyên H3 yên ku têne nîşandan hatine navînkirin (hatiye guhertin). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), berheva agirê çalak a VIIRS 375 m, NASA LANCE; kaşiyên vektorî bi riya NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine xêzkirin; nirx li cihên ku têne nîşandan di nav şaneyên H3 de hatine navînkirin (hatine guherandin). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • GPM IMERG precipitation, NASA Precipitation Processing System; distributed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • Berhemên atmosferê yên MODIS û VIIRS, NASA LANCE û LAADS DAAC; wêne bi riya NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine xêzkirin; nirx li cihên ku têne nîşandan di nav şaneyên H3 de hatine navînkirin (hatine guherandin). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Bi lîsansa CC BY 4.0. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine kişandin; nirx li şaneyên H3 yên ku têne nîşandan hatine navînkirin (hatiye guhertin). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. CC BY 4.0
  • ASTER GDEM berhemek METI û NASA ye (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); wêne bi riya NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine xêzkirin; nirx li cihên ku têne nîşandan di nav şaneyên H3 de hatine navînkirin (hatine guherandin). Wiha bide nîşan: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • Bi Natural Earth hatiye çêkirin. Daneyên nexşeyê yên vektor û raster ên belaş @ naturalearthdata.com. Giştî
  • © beşdarên OpenStreetMap (ODbL), bi NASA GIBS (xetên peravê, sînor, rê û navên cihan). Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine kişandin; nirx li şaneyên H3 yên ku têne nîşandan hatine navînkirin (hatiye guhertin). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; wêne bi riya NASA GIBS. Reng ji nexşeya rengan a weşandî ji nû ve hatine xêzkirin; nirx li cihên ku têne nîşandan di nav şaneyên H3 de hatine navînkirin (hatine guherandin). Daneyên vekirî yên NASA
  • Çarçove li ser globa û nexşeya daxistî: peravên, sînor, rê û navên cihan ji qatên referansê yên NASA GIBS (daneyên OpenStreetMap, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); wêneya Blue Marble wekî bingeha bijarte; erdnîgariya 3D û xwendina bilindahiyê ji nîşandera rengê bilindahiyê ya ASTER GDEM (çînên 5 m heta 200 m, ji bo xwendinê hatine mezinkirin). Sînor wekî hatine weşandin têne xêzkirin û li ser tu axê helwestekê nîşan nadin.
  • Gerdûn: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © beşdarên MapLibre.
  • Bûyerên zindî: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); bûyer nîşanî ne û girêdanên çavkaniya xwe ya orîjînal diparêzin.
  • Zindî: Bûyerên NASA EONET nîşander in, ne hişyariyên desthilatê ne.
  • Zindî: U.S. Geological Survey Bûyer nîşanî ne, ne hişyariyên rayedaran in.
  • NASA GIBS: We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • Pêşbîniya herikîna çemê, 30 roj bi navber (GloFAS bi riya Open-Meteo): Agahiyên Copernicus Emergency Management Service yên guhertî dihewîne 2026; ne hişyariya lehiyê ye.
  • Daneyên hewayê ji Open-Meteo.com (https://open-meteo.com/), bi lîsansa CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
  • Optional layers (20 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Ava lehiyê, berhevoka 3-rojî: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Cotmeh 2026
  • Şewat û anomaliyên germî yên çalak: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Cotmeh 2026
  • Rêjeya baranê, navgîna rojane: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Cotmeh 2026
  • Kûrahiya optîkî ya aerosolê, rojane: VIIRS NOAA-20 Deep Blue AOD, NASA LANCE · 13 Cotmeh 2026
  • Qebareya nifûsê, 2020: Nifûs: CIESIN, Zanîngeha Columbia, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · sabît

06Research hubs

Research hubs: the newest work in every faculty

Each faculty keeps a live hub of research and preprints by discipline, with filters, trends and the most cited recent work; the cards show each hub’s daily snapshot.

Nine faculty hubslive on each faculty page

07Take part

Take part in the work

Start from who you are.

08The Index

The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX) behind every course

The anchor data pipeline of the Consortium: registered sources with their licences, the Nexus Standards indicators and hazards, the Index series and the country profiles the Academy’s courses, maps and labs read.

09Places

Places, what is changing now, standards and ways in

Every faculty teaches on a real place

A twin of one real place per faculty, built from open data with each layer’s source and date, with the faculty’s research hub.

10Questions

Questions, answers and key terms

Is study here free?
Yes. Every course and learning material of Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium, is free to study, self-paced or with a cohort. Ordinary participation has no fee; paid work, internships and fellowships are separate arrangements.
What does completing a course give me?
A completion record: the course, its version, the date and what was assessed, private by default and shared by you. It stacks into discipline, department and programme achievements. A record states what was studied and assessed and does not certify competence; it is not a licence, a professional title or an employment status.
Who writes the courses, and who issues records?

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI US) in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario author courses in their own domains, as do the Global Risks Forum (GRF) and the Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Risk Academy hosts them. GCRI Canada leads the Consortium and is its global contracting party. A completion record is not a licence to practise.

GCRI Canada is the issuer of record. No credential is issued until the assessment method, the signing key and the status and revocation path are on record. Until then completion is recorded, not credentialed. No credential has been issued to date.

Where do the data and the places come from?
Every faculty teaches on a twin of a real place built from open data; each layer carries its provider, licence and date, and every result on the Academy states its source. Maps and figures are indicators for teaching, never an assessment of a place.
How do I take part beyond every course?
Form a competence cell of three to seven people, study a shared pathway, take a supervised assignment in the National Working Groups, or bring a cohort from your institution. For organisations.

Key terms

Term

Faculty

A broad field of risk with its own subsite, departments, disciplines and a twin of a real place.

Term

Twin

A model of one real place built from admitted open data, with every layer’s source and date, on which a faculty teaches its instruments.

Term

Primary discipline

The one discipline a course counts towards; it may also be taught in others.

Term

Completion record

The record of a completed course or achievement: what was studied and assessed.

ReportsContribute

Ji vê rûpelê delîl bidin.

Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.

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