The ever so fast development of science and technology due to the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the hyper connected era is rapidly affecting a wide range of areas throughout society. Given that the current changes are difficult to predict, we are living in an era of extreme features (variability, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) called the VUCA era, which has been further accelerated by COVID-19.

The development of science and technology has provided humans with abundant and convenient lives, but this has led us to face various risks that we did not expect. The development of science and technology is human hope but also fear, and risk is not an accidental factor but a social factor that occurs reflexively as humans rely on science and technology.

The risks of the VUCA era is a matter that everyone needs to be aware of and be able to respond to. So citizens must have the preparedness to respond to the risks. To build the social system, we need to bring up risk literacy among the citizens, and to do this, respond education is mandatory for a risk society. OECD(2018) also emphasized that students should be educated to deal with unpredictable risks.

Project 2RISE (Risk Response in Science Education) aims to rethink the role of science education and establish a risk response education system to foster individual capabilities to respond to the risks of the VUCA era.