EUCENTRE Foundation

Description

Earthquakes and natural disasters have always been a characteristic of the Italian territory, as well as of many other regions of the planet.
The impossibility of predicting with certainty an earthquake and its energy makes necessary to activate all the processes aimed at limiting the damage caused to buildings, to people, to everything of value to the territory. In 2001, the Rose School for higher education in the mitigation of natural risks was established in Pavia.
In 2002, the earthquake of San Giuliano caused too many young victims and the Department of Civil Protection reconstituted the Major Risks National Committee with the task, among others, to define recommendations for the reduction of seismic risk.

Consequently, in 2003 the Eucentre Association and the ReLUIS network of university laboratories were established both with the aim to study the effects of seismic ground shaking on buildings and damage reduction methods.
In 2005 the Eucentre laboratory (today Shake-Lab) was inaugurated and the Association became a Foundation. From that moment on the development path of the Eucentre Foundation began, thanks to the active collaboration with the Founders, with the territory, with other national and international stakeholders and with many research partners.

The Eucentre Foundation, based in Pavia, is a non-profit organization that promotes and develops research and training in the field of risk reduction, in particular seismic.The creation of Eucentre took place in 2003, on the initiative of the following founding members: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile Nazionale, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia (IUSS).