On August 10th, Professor Rajib Shaw, Ex-IRDR Executive Director and advisor to IRDR IPO visited Dr. Amod Dixit, Executive Director of ICoE NSET (National Society for Earthquake Technology) Nepal along with three IRDR young scientists: Dr. Basanta Adhikari, Mr. Suraj Gautam, both from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and Dr. Glenn Fernandez of Kyoto University, Japan. They discussed mutual research collaboration on communities and disaster risk reduction in Lalitpur municipality of Nepal.