You'll find some useful links at:
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/other/planning/document_store/crisisplans.htm 

There is a lot of info from the US about post-Sept 11 there.  Additionally several Universities in Germany and Czech Republic were badly affected by the recent floods, but there has been little information about how they coped other than the article below.   Always assume the worst might happen to you!

University of Central Lancashire Planning Office ran a conference on 'Disaster Planning in Universities and Colleges' some years ago and we would be interested in guaging support for another such event with some case studies of real disasters affecting universities.  Please let me know if you are interested or have any ideas about such an event

Mike Milne-Picken
Head of Planning & Performance Review
University of Central Lancashire
PRESTON
PR1 2HE
Tel: +44 (0)1772 892391
Fax: +44 (0)1722 892943
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  Monday, August 19, 2002



  Major Floods Damage European Universities

  By BURTON BOLLAG
  
   
  
  After days of catastrophic flooding in central Europe,
  universities in Dresden and Prague are surveying the damage
  they have suffered in buildings that have been submerged or
  washed away.
  
  The worst damage appears to be to the forestry department of
  Dresden University of Technology, the main institution of the
  eastern German city. The department is located in the town of
  Tharandt, a few miles southwest of Dresden. A normally small
  river there turned into a raging torrent, destroying the
  department's half-dozen buildings, including laboratories and
  a library.
  
  "Some of the buildings have only one wall left," Mathias
  Bauml, a university spokesman, said Friday. He spoke during a
  break as he and thousands of other volunteers placed sandbags
  to try to protect buildings in Dresden's historic center from
  waters of the flood-swollen Elbe River, which were still
  rising. 
  
  The university's department of waste management, located in
  the town of Pirna, a few miles southeast of Dresden and
  upstream on the Elbe, has been affected as well. Its buildings
  were standing in more than three and a half feet of water.
  Rising waters also forced students at five university
  residences in various parts of Dresden to evacuate to other
  accommodations.
  
  Mr. Bauml says the university expects to begin its academic
  year on schedule at the beginning of October, except for the
  forestry department. Its 800 students may spend much of the
  fall term helping to rebuild their institution's unique
  19th-century arboretum, which was destroyed. Mr. Bauml expects
  that some courses will be resumed in temporary classrooms, but
  not before the start of 2003. 
  
  In Prague, the Czech capital, buildings housing three schools
  of Charles University, the country's main institution, have
  been flooded. The liberal-arts, law, and social-sciences
  schools are located on the banks of the Vltava River, which
  overflowed and flooded parts of the city. University
  officials, however, have as yet no clear idea of the extent of
  the damage, since police officers have closed off access to
  the flooded riverside.
  
  J.E. Purkyne University, in the Czech city of Usti nad Labem,
  north of and downstream from Prague, is located on high ground
  and was not flooded. However the university opened its
  dormitories to hundreds of townspeople who had to leave their
  homes when parts of the city were submerged by floodwaters. 
  


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Dear All

As part of a process of ongoing review and  updating university policies, we
are looking at models of best practice for disaster recovery plans.  Any
assistance (or, indeed, copies of plans) would be welcomed.

Many thanks

Stewart Harper
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Stewart Harper
Planning Support Unit,
Vice Chancellor's Office, Keele University,
( Telephone: 01782 583588
* Email: s.harper @ vco.keele.ac.uk
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/vc/ 
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