What They're Looking For
Program: Emergency Management or Public Safety
About Scholarship
This year we are again awarding two $1,000 scholarships. These scholarships will be awarded to two active students, who are working towards a degree or a certificate program in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Emergency Management or Public Safety from a Canadian institution. These scholarships are to be used for tuition fees, basic living costs and/or study materials (text books and equipment).
The selection process will be conducted by an impartial Selection Committee of DRIE- Toronto. Students who are interested in applying for one of these scholarships are asked to complete and provide the following information to the DRIE Scholarship Committee via email only to ([email protected]).
About Company
The Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (DRIE) is a non-profit association of professionals dedicated to the exchange of information on all aspects of planning for an emergency or a disruption to normal operations. DRIE's goal is to provide an accessible, informal, open forum for the exchange of information and knowledge related to the many variations of emergency preparedness.
At our quarterly meetings we have presentations on many of the following topics:
- Disaster recovery planning;
- Business resumption planning;
- Contingency planning;
- Crisis management;
- Crisis communications;
- Emergency response; and
- Risk and business impact assessment.