The first two topic areas of the Risk Dialogue Foundation focus on essential risk topics such as climate, energy and the digital transformation. The third topic area focuses on conceptual issues. For example, what skills are needed in society to deal with risks and how to react resiliently when they occur. The first thrust is to strengthen risk competencies in society. This involves understanding risk perception and behavior. Various projects are investigating the behavior of the population in everyday life, but also in disasters and emergencies. For example, the perspective of young people is an important indicator for the future. In general, risk and crisis communication are core elements. The projects produce science-based and practice-oriented concepts on how to talk about risks in today's communication world in order to convey knowledge, pick up opinions and promote self-efficacy. The information and protection needs of individual target groups must always be understood anew, but developing solutions together to find an appropriate safety culture and to promote appropriate behavior remains central. Societal resilience forms the second thrust. General concepts of resilience, i.e. an appropriate reaction under stress with simultaneous learning for the future, have been discussed for some time in order to cope with the complex and unpredictable (risk) world. For us, the question is which culture is conducive to the further development of corresponding skills such as self-organization, a sense of responsibility or commitment. In doing so, we investigate which skills beyond resources strengthen resilience. What makes a neighborhood or a canton cope better with crises such as the Covid 19 pandemic, migration flows or natural disasters, to organize itself and to support each other? How can individuals, as well as bottom-up or grassroots initiatives, be supported? In terms of societal resilience, it is about understanding how such initiatives can be networked with each other, but also with top-down crisis management. In addition to understanding and enabling, resilience is also about working together with partners from civil society, research, business, government and politics.