International Centres of Excellence (ICoE)

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.





Current ICoEs
Country
ICoE Name and Host Institute
China

IRDR ICoE-Taipei

Host Institute: Academy of Sciences located in Taipei, China

New Zealand

IRDR ICoE in Community Resilience (IRDR ICoE-CR)

Host Institute: Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR), Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

United Kingdom

IRDR ICoE in Risk Interpretation and Action (IRDR ICoE-RIA)

Host Institute: 

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London (UCL), London, UK

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

IRDR ICoE on Hydroclimatic Disasters and Infrastructure Resilience (IRDR ICoE-HD&IR)

Host Institute: 

School of Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Canada

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

Germany

IRDR ICoE on Critical Infrastructures and Strategic Planning (IRDR ICoE-CI&SP)

Host Institute: Institute for Spatial and Regional Planning (IREUS), Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management, University of Stuttgart, Germany

China

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

Malaysia

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

Nepal

IRDR ICoE for National Society for Earthquake Technology- Nepal (IRDR ICoE-NSET)

Host Institute: National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal

India

IRDR ICoE on Resilient Communities & Settlements (IRDR ICoE-RCS)

Host Institute: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), India

Pakistan

IRDR ICoE in Disaster and Climatic Extremes (IRDR ICoE-DCE)

Host Institute: 

Department of Geography, University of Peshawar, Pakistan

China

IRDR ICoE on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health (IRDR ICoE-RIG-WECEIPHE)

Host Institute: Fudan University, China

Japan

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

Greece

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


Former ICoEs
ICoEs
Home Institution
Netherlands

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

Sweden

IRDR ICoE on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk (IRDR ICoE-TDDR)

Home Institution: SEI Initiative on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk

Australia

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

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