Illustrative: branching futures, each branch weighted by its probability

Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Programme / RAF 100 series

Foundation stream

Core concepts every risk learner needs: hazards, exposure and vulnerability, resilience, risk governance, communication and the frameworks that organise practice.

01Instrument

Foundation stream

19L1 Introductory
1L2 Intermediate
  • Open course
  • In development

Labs used: map lab in 10 courses, exposure lab in 5 courses, geo quiz in 3 courses, trigger lab in 2 courses, network lab in 2 courses, geoai lab in 2 courses.

02Map

Levels, courses and the standards between them

03Pathway

The pathway through the stream

Courses by study level, each with the course it builds on, the labs it uses and the faculty stage where its subject is practised.

04What it teaches

Scope, audience and next steps

How risk is defined and reasoned about, from the hazard and the exposed system to the decision. It introduces the framework families (ISO 31000 and COSO at the entity level, the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction, the Paris Agreement for transition) at the level a practitioner needs to read them, not to apply them unsupervised.

Who it is for. New risk professionals, people moving into a risk role from another field, and students.

What comes next. Most learners continue into the Technical stream for methods, or into a Nexus course on the sector they work in.

05Courses

Courses in the stream

Open courses link to the catalogue; courses in development are listed so you can plan ahead.

06Nexus Standards

Nexus Standards it teaches and relies on

The Nexus Standards Foundation stream teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.

07Research hub

Research hub: papers, preprints and datasets

Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Foundation stream.

Search termsFoundation stream; Risk-informed public policy; Just transition, social and human rights risk; Community resilience and inclusion; Disaster risk reduction; Biodiversity and ecosystemsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Foundation stream.

  • OpenAlexlisted for reference; not queried
  • Crossreflisted for reference; not queried
  • DataCitelisted for reference; not queried
  • Zenodolisted for reference; not queried
  • arXivlisted for reference; not queried
  • Europe PMClisted for reference; not queried
  • OpenAIRE Graphlisted for reference; not queried

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08Labs

Where the stream practises

09Pathways

Pathways that use this stream

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Take the first open course

Each open course states its hours, level, outcomes and labs in the catalogue.