International Centres of Excellence (ICoEs)

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.

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Current ICoEs
Country
ICoE Name and Host Institute
Canada

IRDR ICoE on Disaster Resilient Homes, Infrastructure and Communities (IRDR ICoE-DRHIC)

Host Institute: 

Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), Western University, Toronto, Canada

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

China

IRDR International Centre of Excellence on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Climate Change (IRDR ICoE-RIGCC)

Host Institute: 

Fudan University, China

China

IRDR ICoE-Taipei

Host Institute: 

Academy of Sciences located in Taipei, China

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

Greece

IRDR ICoE on Resilience Economics and Sustainable Risk Transitions (IRDR ICoE-RE&SRT)

Host Institute: 

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

India

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

Host Institute: 

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), India

Indonesia

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) 


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)

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

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 on Interdisciplinary Research on Himalayan Risk and Resilience (IRDR ICoE-IHRR)

Host Institute: 

Institute of Himalayan Risk Reduction (IHRR)

Nepal

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

Host Institute: 

National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal

New Zealand

IRDR ICoE in Community Resilience (IRDR ICoE-CR)

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

Pakistan

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

Host Institute: 

Department of Geography, University of Peshawar, Pakistan

Romania

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


Uganda

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)

United Kingdom

IRDR ICoE on Informatics and Disaster Resilience (IRDR ICoE-IDR)

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

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 States of America

IRDR ICoE for Next‑Gen Disaster Intelligence and Resilience (IRDR ICoE-Nex-Gen-Di&R

Host Institute: 

Hydroinformatics Lab, Tulane University


Zimbabwe

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)


Former ICoEs
ICoEs
Home Institution
United States of America
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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