Following a selection process that involved an international jury of 12 scientific personalities from various international scientific academies in the fields of science and technology, 46 national high-level scientists were selected from among 366 applications, to become founding members of the Algerian Academy of Science and Technology. Professor Djillali Benouar has been officially named as …
SC Member Djillali Benouar founding member of Algerian National AcademyRead More »
The annual Cooperative Research Centres Association conference in Canberra last week witnessed extensive discussions of the recently released Miles Report – a review of the CRC Programme. The report acknowledged the value and the economic gains to the country of the programme and proposed a better alignment with the Industry Growth Centres announced by the …
Australia: CRC Program Review and New National Research PrioritiesRead More »
During its recently held 13th meeting in Qingdao, China, IRDR’s Science Committee (SC) members approved the application from the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) based at Western University in London, Canada as the IRDR International Centre of Excellence for Disaster Resilient Homes, Buildings and Public Infrastructure (IRDR ICoE-DRHBPI). This new ICoE will work to advance the …
IRDR Welcomes New International Centre of Excellence Based at Western University, CanadaRead More »
On 1 June 2015, the IRDR Science Committee (SC), during the afternoon session of day one of its 13th meeting, approved designating a group of Iranian research institutes and scientific associations as the IRDR National Committee (NC) in Iran (IRDR Iran). IRDR Iran is the 10th NC under the programme. The group comprises eight Iranian research …
During its recently held 13th meeting in Qingdao, China, IRDR’s Science Committee (SC) members approved the application from the Institute for Spatial and Regional Planning (IREUS) within the Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management at the University of Stuttgart, Germany as the IRDR International Centre of Excellence on Critical Infrastructures and Strategic Planning (IRDR ICoE-CISP). This new ICoE …
The first post-Sendai ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting was held on 3-5 June 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. IRDR was represented by IRDR Science Committee member S.H.M. Fakhruddin and Executive Director R. Klein, for the first and second half of the meeting respectively. This IAP meeting focused on the way forward in terms of implementing the new …
IRDR supports stronger role for S&T at ISDR Asia Partnership MeetingRead More »
As a follow-on to the semi-annual meeting of IRDR’s governance body, the Scientific Committee, IRDR China hosted more than 27 Ph.D. students and assistant professors working in various disaster risk areas for a capacity building workshop focused on integrated disaster risk research. Salvano Briceno, Irasema Alcántara Ayala, Susan Cutter, David Johnston (all members of IRDR’s …
IRDR China hosts early career scientists in integrated research workshopRead More »
At the culmination of the IRDR Science Committee meeting, a dedicated session was held on networking and partnering with China-based international projects related to disaster risk science. IRDR China led off with a presentation on their 5 new thematic working groups focused on disaster risks. These are: earthquakes and geological hazards (WG1), flood and drought …
Chinese disaster research networks presented at IRDR’s SC meeting China roundtableRead More »
Hosted by China’s first national-level laboratory for marine science and technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM), the IRDR Science Committee began its three-day meeting on Monday, 1 June 2015, at the Laoshan Campus of the Ocean University of China in Qingdao, Shandong Province, …
China’s New Large Ocean Research Laboratory Co-Hosts 13th IRDR SC MeetingRead More »
This 10-day international training workshop for Biosphere Reserve (BR) managers was organized collaboratively by the East Asian Biosphere Reserve Network (EABRN) Secretariat at the UNESCO Beijing Office, the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the Auspices of UNESCO (HIST), the Wudalianchi Administration Committee and Chinese National Committee for Man and …
IRDR partner programme HIST supports East Asian Biosphere Reserve NetworkRead More »