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H2020Staff exchange2015–2019

GEO-RAMP · Geohazards: Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Prevention

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-04-01 → 2019-03-31
EU contribution
€1,804,500
Participants
14
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Geohazards: Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Prevention

The GEO-RAMP project 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 will result in reduced loss of human life, reduced damaged to buildings and infrastructure and the associated disruption of economic activities, and will have far reaching consequences on the way insurers operate in calculating risk. Better understanding of the physico-mechanical causes of geohazards is pivotal to allow the establishment of cause – effect links between hazards and potential losses. This will lead to fairer insurance premiums and in turn hopefully a reduced use of exclusion clauses, sublimits, and coverage ceilings by insurers. The project brings together the complementary expertise of world leading groups carrying out research on the engineering assessment, prevention and mitigation of geohazards, the main ones being floods, landslides, and earthquakes. In summary, the goals of the project are: • To investigate the key physico-mechanical aspects of major geohazards 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. • 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. • 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. • To improve the current normative standards and codes ruling geohazard prevention. • To provide a competitive edge to European engineering software companies modelling geohazards.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

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.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · Newcastle Upon TyneCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · AtlantaUnited States
  • INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE · GRENOBLE CEDEX 1France
  • ITASCA CONSULTANTS · LYONFrance
  • ITASCA CONSULTING LTD · SHREWSBURY SHROPSHIREUnited Kingdom
  • KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · ThuwalSaudi Arabia
  • NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY · AstanaKazakhstan
  • TONGJI UNIVERSITY · SHANGAIChina
  • UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMON · CochabambaBolivia
  • UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN · San JuanArgentina
  • UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN · WienAustria
  • UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · BARCELONASpain
  • UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · GrenobleFrance
  • UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK · COVENTRYUnited Kingdom

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union