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EU funding (€1,804,500): Geohazards: Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Prevention Hor 1 Apr 2015 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Geohazards: Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Prevention
This proposal aims to provide a step change in terms of our capacity to assess and predict risks due to geohazards (landslides and rock slides, earthquakes, floods). This is necessary in order to make built environments and infrastructures resilient to the increasing threat of natural hazards due to the expanding size of European cities and urban centres, increased use of infrastructure, and the effect of increased climatic variations. To achieve this we will bring together the complementary expertise of world leading academic groups in geotechnical, geoenvironmental and seismic engineering, soil and rock mechanics, seismology, hydrology, geology together with private engineering software companies. The goals of this proposal are: i) to investigate the key physical-mechanical aspects of major geohazards (landslides, earthquakes, floods) with a multi-disciplinary approach in order to bridge the current gaps in knowledge and enable a step-change in the current capabilities of risk assessment, prevention, and mitigation; ii) to generate new approaches to predicting geohazards by creating an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral group which will combine existing knowledge to generate new research methodologies and applications by enabling knowledge exchange among researchers with expertise in complementary research fields; iii) to train several Early Stage Researches (ESRs) during their stay at the host Institution who will form the next generation of researchers for academic and industrial applications; iv) to improve the current normative standards and codes ruling geohazard prevention; v) to provide a competitive edge to European engineering software companies modelling geohazards.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Georgia Institute OF Technology | ? |
| Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble | €166,500 |
| Itasca Consultants | €72,000 |
| Itasca Consulting Ltd. | €49,500 |
| Universitaet Fuer Bodenkultur Wien | €301,500 |
| Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya | €459,000 |
| Universite Grenoble Alpes | €40,500 |
| University of Newcastle Upon Tyne | €279,000 |
| University of Warwick | €436,500 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/645665
The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The latest known state is available on the following page: Georgia Institute OF Technology, Atlanta Georgia, United States.
