LEKKAS, E., SALACHORIS, M., GRAMBAS, A., PLESSAS, P., ALEXOUDI, V., VALADAKI, K., PLESSAS, S. (2014). – Disaster Data Centre - An Innovative Educational Tool for Disaster Reduction through Education in Schools. Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 2014, 2, 35-40, SciRes. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jpee.2014.29006.
During the last decades, mankind has suffered from devastation caused by natural disasters and technological accidents of increased frequency and children are among the most vulnerable pop-ulation group, especially those attending school during times of disaster. The importance of edu-cation in promoting and enabling disaster risk reduction has already been identified by research-ers. In this paper "Disaster Date Center (DDC)" is presented, a new, powerful and innovative tool for the study of and education on disasters. One noteworthy application of DDC is the educational and public awareness tool in the form of e-learning.