Project description
A highly systemic study of seismic risks
Earthquakes represent a challenging issue among earth-scientists, engineering-scientists, computer scientists, and social scientists, despite the many technological developments that permit better knowledge on seismic coherence. Soon, earthquakes will be assessed as a dynamic risk. The EU-funded RISE project perceives dynamic risk to be related to soil variations, the physical features of an area and population density. Yet other factors such as changes with time or vicinity of seismic activity are also included in the concept of dynamic risk. The project suggests a wide range of synchronised actions concerning prevention, data information, rapid evaluation of damages, recovery and restoration actions. A multidisciplinary group of scientists in engineering, IT, geology and sociology from 13 countries will be involved in the project.
Objective
The key concept and vision of RISE is to promote a paradigm shift in how earthquake risk is perceived and managed. We believe that by taking advantage of advances in scientific understanding, and dramatically changing technological capabilities, earthquake hazard and risk will soon be appreciated not as a constant in time, but as an evolving, integrated and dynamic risk. In our concept, dynamic risk depends on location, changing with soil conditions, topography, structural type, occupancy and use and even location within a structure. However, dynamic risk also includes changes with time, for example increasing when a seismic sequence is active nearby and due to an improved dynamic geophysical understanding of faulting and earthquake processes. RISE proposes a series of coordinated activities in the domains of Operational Earthquake Forecasting, Earthquake Early Warning, Rapid Loss Assessment and Recovery and Rebuilding Efforts. Our approach is multi-disciplinary, involving earth-scientists, engineering-scientists, computer scientists, and social scientists. It is multi-scale in space and time, and addresses these scales in a highly systemic and consistent way. RISE joins with EPOS Integrated Core Service and several of the Thematic Core Services (TCS), with ARISTOTLE and the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. Integration will also include responsible national agencies in Italy, Turkey, Iceland, Israel and Switzerland and with selected industry partners. To maximise the impact of RISE, we have assembled an interdisciplinary team of truly outstanding researchers and practitioners, 37 PIs from 24 institutions (including 5 contributing partners from outside of Europe), in 13 countries, with documented experience on the topics of the project developed in previous FP6, FP7, and H2020 projects.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
8092 Zuerich
Switzerland
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Participants (27)
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
113 8656 Tokyo
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606 8501 Kyoto
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
5040 Lower Hutt
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
04510 CIUDAD DE MEXICO
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
90089 5013 Los Angeles Ca
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14473 POTSDAM
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00143 Roma
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
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34010 Sgonico-Trieste
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108 Reykjavik
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40126 Bologna
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BS8 1QU Bristol
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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80138 Napoli
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52900 Ramat Gan
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27100 Pavia
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91680 Bruyeres Le Chatel
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38058 Grenoble
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77454 Marne-La-Vallee
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
75794 Paris
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CB2 1TN Cambridge
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34342 Istanbul
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3731 GA De Bilt
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20864 Agrate Brianza
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24129 Bergamo
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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14467 Potsdam
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
34010 Sgonico-Trieste
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