IRDR International Centres of Excellence (hereafter referred as ICoEs) are established to make direct contributions to IRDR missions in research and capacity building. If you have any questions send us an email at connect@irdrinternational.org.
Download for Terms of Reference of IRDR International Centres of Excellence.
IRDR ICoE-Taipei
Host Institute: Academy of Sciences located in Taipei, China
IRDR ICoE in Community Resilience (IRDR ICoE-CR)
Host Institute: Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR), Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
IRDR ICoE in Understanding Risk & Safety (IRDR ICoE-UR&S)
IRDR ICoE for Risk Education and Learning (IRDR ICoE-REaL)
IRDR ICoE in Risk Interpretation and Action (IRDR ICoE-RIA)
Host Institute: Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London (UCL), London, UK
IRDR ICoE on Informatics for Multi-Hazard Risk Reduction (IRDR ICoE-IMHRR)
Host Institute: School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
IRDR ICoE on Hydroclimatic Disasters and Infrastructure Resilience (IRDR ICoE-HD&IR)
Host Institute:
IRDR ICoE for Disaster Resilient Homes, Buildings and Public Infrastructure (IRDR ICoE-DRHBPI)
Host Institute: Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), Western University, Toronto, Canada
IRDR ICoE on Critical Infrastructures and Strategic Planning (IRDR ICoE-CI&SP)
IRDR ICoE for Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK (CCOUC) for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (IRDR ICoE-CCOUC)
Host Institute: Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK (CCOUC) for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response
IRDR ICoE for Disaster Risk and Climate Extremes (IRDR ICoE-SEADPRI-UKM)
Host Institute: Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM), the National University of Malaysia
IRDR ICoE for National Society for Earthquake Technology- Nepal (IRDR ICoE-NSET)
Host Institute: National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal
IRDR ICoE on Resilient Communities & Settlements (IRDR ICoE-RCS)
Host Institute: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), India
IRDR ICoE in Disaster and Climatic Extremes (IRDR ICoE-DCE)
Host Institute:
IRDR ICoE on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health (IRDR ICoE-RIG-WECEIPHE)
Host Institute: Fudan University, China
IRDR ICoE for Coherence among Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and Sustainable Development (IRDR ICoE-Coherence)
Host Institute: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
IRDR ICoE on Resilience Economics and Sustainable Risk Transitions (IRDR ICoE-RE&SRT)
Host Institute: Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
IRDR ICoE in Vulnerability and Resilience Metrics (IRDR ICoE-VaRM)
IRDR ICoE in Spatial Decision Support for Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction (IRDR ICoE-SDS IDRR)
Home Institution: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),The University of Twente
IRDR ICoE on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk (IRDR ICoE-TDDR)
Home Institution: SEI Initiative on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk
IRDR ICoE on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Science (IRDR ICoE-IRDRS)
Home Institution: Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, The Australian National University


