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 on Disaster Resilient Homes, Infrastructure and Communities (IRDR ICoE-DRHIC)
Host Institute: Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), Western University, Toronto, Canada
IRDR ICoE for Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK (CCOUC) for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (IRDR ICoE-CCOUC)
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IRDR International Centre of Excellence on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Climate Change (IRDR ICoE-RIGCC)
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IRDR ICoE-Taipei
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IRDR ICoE on Understanding Risk & Safety (IRDR ICoE-UR&S)
IRDR ICoE on Critical Infrastructures and Strategic Planning (IRDR ICoE-CI&SP)
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IRDR ICoE on Resilience Economics and Sustainable Risk Transitions (IRDR ICoE-RE&SRT)
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IRDR ICoE on Resilient Communities & Settlements (IRDR ICoE-RCS)
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IRDR ICoE for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Research (IRDR ICoE-D4R)
Host Institute: National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional - BRIN)
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) NIED serves as the coordinating institute, leading a consortium of the following 19 partner institutes: 1. International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University 2. Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), University of Tokyo 3. Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research (CIDIR), University of Tokyo 4. Global Environment Data Commons COMS), University of Tokyo 5. National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) 6. Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery (NHDR), Niigata University 7. Disaster Mitigation Research Center (DMRC), Nagoya University 8. Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University 9. UNESCO Chair on Water, Energy and Disaster Management for Sustainable Development (WENDI), Kyoto University 10. Institute of Education, Research and Regional Cooperation for Crisis Management Shikoku (IECMS), Kagawa University 11. Graduate School of Engineering, Disaster Risk Reduction Research Center (DRRRC), Kyushu University 12. Resilience Research Education Promotion Consortium (R²EC) 13. Research Institute for Value-Added Information Generation, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) 14. International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM), Public Works Research Institute 15. Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institute(DRI) 16. Japan Bosai Platform (JBP) 17. Research Center for Social Transformation , Saitama University 18. Disaster Management Research Institute (DMRI), Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing 19. Center for Water Cycle, Marine Environment and Disaster Management (CWMD), Kumamoto University
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 on Interdisciplinary Research on Himalayan Risk and Resilience (IRDR ICoE-IHRR)
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IRDR ICoE for National Society for Earthquake Technology- Nepal (IRDR ICoE-NSET)
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IRDR ICoE in Community Resilience (IRDR ICoE-CR)
Host Institute: Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR), Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
IRDR ICoE in Disaster and Climatic Extremes (IRDR ICoE-DCE)
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IRDR ICoE on Proactive Resilience and Emergency Preparedness for Adaptive Response and Efficiency (IRDR ICoE‑PREPARE)
Host Institute: Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest (UTCB) UTCB serves as the technical coordinating institute, leading a consortium of the following14 partner institutes: 1. Politehnica University of Timișoara (UPT) 2. Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași (TUIASI) 3. Technical University of Cluj - Napoca (UTCN) 4. Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS) 5. National Institute for Earth Physics (INCDFP) 6. Institute of Geography of Romanian Academy (IGAR) 7. Marin Drăcea National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry (INCDS) 8. National Institute for Research and Development in Mine Safety and Protection to Explosion (INSEMEX) 9. National Institute for Research and Development in Construction, Urban Planning and Sustainable Spatial Development (URBAN-INCERC) 10. Military Technical Academy (ATM) 11. Academy for Economic Studies (ASE) 12. Transilvania University of Brașov (UNITBV) 13. National Institute for Physics of Materials (INFIM) 14. Emergency Clinic Hospital of Bucharest (SCUB
IRDR ICoE for Risk Education and Learning (IRDR ICoE-REaL)
IRDR ICoE on Disaster Risk Science Innovation and Resilience (IRDR ICoE-CDRSIR)
Host Institute: Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) and the Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University (joint host institutes)
IRDR ICoE on Informatics and Disaster Resilience (IRDR ICoE-IDR)
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)
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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 for Next‑Gen Disaster Intelligence and Resilience (IRDR ICoE-Nex-Gen-Di&R
Host Institute: Hydroinformatics Lab, Tulane University
IRDR ICoE in Southern Africa Centre for Integrated Disaster Risk Research (IRDR ICoE-SAC-IDRR)
Host Institute: National University of Science and Technology (NUST) NUST serves as the technical coordinating institute, in partnership with the following two institutes: 1. Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) 2. University of the Free State’s Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (DiMTEC)
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


