we are we4DRR - Claudia Sauermoser
“Every challenge is a new opportunity!”
Claudia's career
- She studied Forestry at the University of Life Science and Natural Resources and completed her master in Torrent and Avalanche Control/Natural Hazards
- After graduating she started an administrative traineeship in the directorate “Torrent and Avalanche Control” in the Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism in Vienna
- Since 2016 she works in the regional office “Carinthia Northeast” of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control
Why natural hazards?
- Working with natural hazards combines a lot of different fields of research
- Natural fascination of nature and all the processes
- Being outside in nature and the mountains
- working together with citizens and support them in all the questions they have about natural hazards
Her point of view on women in DRR
- women bring in new perspectives and points of views in the field of DDR
- women are still under-represented or not visible in the field of DRR
- especially in the countryside women in technical positions are less accepted
Why we4DRR?
- To strengthen women in daily work and to support each other
- To make women more visible in the field of DRR
- To look closer at the role of women regarding natural hazards