News & Annoucements
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Academician Prof. Peng CUI, Former IRDR Scientific Committee Member, Honoured with Sitara-e-Imtiaz by Pakistan
15 May 2026
Former IRDR SC Member, Prof. Peng CUI, has been awarded Pakistan’s prestigious Sitara-e-Imtiaz, one of the nation’s highest civilian honours for foreign scholars, at a formal award ceremony held at the Pakistani Embassy in Beijing, China.
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2nd National Digital Disaster Reduction Conference Convenes in Xi’an to Boost Smart DRR and Safe City Development
25 April 2026
The 2nd National Digital Disaster Reduction Conference was held in Xi’an, China on 25 April 2026, under the theme “Digital Disaster Reduction for Safe Cities”. The conference supports IRDR’s global efforts to strengthen digital and data driven approaches for disaster risk reduction.
Opportunities
Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Internship Opportunity with UNDRR Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand
30 April 2026
The UNDRR has an opening for a full-time internship dealing with Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The internship will be based at the UNDRR's Office in Bangkok, Thailand. The deadline for applications is 11 May 2026.
Opportunities
IRDR ICoE-RE&SRT (Greece) Invites Papers for Session at Upcoming FEMISE 2026 Annual Conference
30 April 2026
The IRDR ICoE-RE&SRT (Greece) invites submissions for its session, “Sustainability Transitions in Times of Disruption: Economic Resilience, Risk, and Systemic Transformation”, at the upcoming FEMISE 2026 Annual Conference. The deadline for submission is 20 May 2026.
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Fourth Issue of the IRDR Newsletter Now Available
27 April 2026
The fourth issue of the IRDR newsletter, which covers the first quarter of 2026, January to March 2026, is now available.
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IRDR and Scilight Press Join Forces for Open-Access DRR Knowledge and Capacity Building
24 April 2026
IRDR IPO and Scilight Press, a Beijing-based international academic publisher, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 23 April 2026, formalising a new strategic partnership focused on open-access DRR knowledge and capacity building.
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IRDR Participates in HEDRM Symposium on Dengue Prevention, Featuring China-Laos Railway Case Study
20 April 2026
IRDR joined the GX Foundation and IRDR ICoE-CCOUC in a symposium in Beijing to advance Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (HEDRM) approaches to dengue prevention. The event highlighted findings from a major GX Foundation project along the China-Laos Railway corridor, the findings of which are presented in an interim IRDR Special Report.
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IRDR and BRIN Move to Revitalize Disaster Risk Cooperation in Indonesia
18 April 2026
IRDR and Indonesia's BRIN have signed a Letter of Intent to re-activate the IRDR National Committee Indonesia and explore establishing an IRDR ICoE.
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IRDR and GADRI Forge Strategic Alliance to Advance Disaster Risk Reduction Research
29 December 2025
IRDR and the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a collaborative partnership aimed at deepening scientific cooperation on disaster risk reduction (DRR).
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Preserving the World’s Collective Disaster Memory: Support to EM-DAT
13 April 2026
EM-DAT, the most widely used and trusted global disaster database for tracking natural and technological disasters by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), faces the risk of termination due to the absence of sustainable funding following the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
