Universidad de El Salvador

Capacitación sobre Gestión del Riesgo Volcánico para Formadores de Educación Inicial y Estudiantes de Profesorado de la Universidad de El Salvador en la Facultad Multidisciplinaria Oriental, de San Miguel, El Salvador, C.A

The Universidad de El Salvador is a public university. It was founded in 1841 and is the largest university in El Salvador. Its main campus is in San Salvador, but it has three other campuses. The one in San Miguel, where the project will take place, has approximately 6,000 students and a faculty and staff of 500.

The general objective is to train educators and students in the various education careers about management of volcanic risk.

Specific objectives are:

  • Implement community education through training workshops, field trips, including the formation of committee of emergency response, make as response plan (risk and evacuation plans) and develop maps of local vulnerability.
  • Disclose Chaparrastique Volcano's eruptive history, the nature of the volcanic hazard and risk to the university community of the Facultad Multidisciplinaria Oriental FMO.
  • Presentation of the simulation exercises of volcanic hazards to test the community preparedness, emergency plans, and evacuation plans.

Gloria Elizabeth is the Project Investigator. Gloria Elizabeth Larios de Navarro has a B.A. in physics and B.A. in education. She is enrolled in a Masters Program in physics. She teaches in the Facultad Multidisciplinaria Oriental, which is the San Miguel campus of the Universidad de El Salvador. She has a certificate in risk management and in 2007 attended the Apprenticeship Program in Risk Management at Manizales, Colombia.