The paper presents some of the main findings of a desk research phase conducted within the project Virtual Centre for Education and Training of Citizens in Cases of Natural Disasters through Serious Games (MEDGAME). The purpose of this project is to educate people in an innovative and exciting way, to acquire a proactive attitude, based on knowledge and appropriate skills and proper behaviour in emergencies caused by natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, building solid scientific foundations and creating a Virtual Centre for education and training of citizens in cases of natural disasters through the Serious Games built on scenarios based on these disasters. The research question of the present study concerns the current situation regarding the social dimension of emergency management in the sense of using a responsible and trained population through online educational resources to act individually or together with other members of the community, along with governmental specialized organizations in various risk situations caused by natural disasters. The main effort is focused on diagnosing the potential use of online educational resources for training of the population of Romania to respond to emergency situations. The research question of the present study concerns the current situation regarding the social dimension of emergency management in the sense of using a responsible and trained population through online educational resources to act individually or together with other members of the community, along with governmental specialized organizations in various risk situations caused by natural disasters. The main effort is focused on diagnosing the potential use of online educational resources for training of the population of Romania to respond to emergency situations.

Open Educational Resources; Natural Disasters, Culture of Risk; Emergency Response.