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December's edition of our newsletter has just been published, check it out here!

In a comprehensive one-day workshop organized by the 4TU.RE Centre, participants from WUR, UT, TUD, and EUR engaged in an insightful exploration of resilience assessment.

João Cortesão (Wageningen University and Research*) and Claudiu Forgaci (Delft University of Technology) co-led the Urban Resilience working group during the DeSIRE research programme.

Building research consortia and securing funding is a time-consuming process, often discussed at our 4TU.RE meetings. One platform at the forefront of this endeavour is Crowdhelix.

Caroline van Bers explores our increasing dependence on technology and its impact on resilience. Recent storms in Europe have exposed our vulnerability, emphasizing the need to safeguard traditional skills and knowledge.  Recent subjects as accelerating climate change call for a shift in our mindset, both individually and as a society, to enhance our resilience. It's a look at the intersection of technology, resilience, and climate change.

The latest Resilience Reflections article is now available online.

The latest Resilience Reflections article is now available online.

September's edition of our newsletter has just been published, check it out here!

“I think it’s important that we are on the same page when it comes to understanding resilience and it’s a major inspiration for my scientific work. To me, a resilient system is a system that can handle stress, and has the ability to evolve. This system has robustness against some level of stress and is able to adapt after disruptive events took place.”

Resilience is a multifaceted concept present in various disciplines, including engineering, finance, policymaking, and psychology. Researchers from the Future Resilient Systems II of the Singapore-ETH Center – Dr. Sandra Andraszewicz and Dr. Adam Roberts would like to obtain your opinion about the meaning of resilience, based on your expertise and experience.

June's edition of our newsletter has just been published, check it out here!

In the High Tech for a Sustainable Future (HTSF) capacity building programmes of our four technical universities, talented researchers work on society-relevant themes such as sustainable agriculture, personalised medicine and a heatless, green city.

The first workshop to expand our Resilience Engineering Academy’s Open Educational Resources (OER) took place in May and marked the official start of the “Cooking up OER” project. Participants worked with storytelling skills, presenting and scripting for videos, with the help of Naomi Wahls, learning developer at the TU Delft. The workshop was hosted by TU Delft’s New Media Centre, where also the recording of the videos will take place.

Like the MX3D bridge in Amsterdam, opened by Her Majesty Queen Máxima in 2021, one of the bridges on the University of Twente campus is equipped with a sophisticated network of sensors. Roland Kromanis is currently working with colleagues applying and calibrating the sensors on the UT campus bridge to measure its performance and, hence, resilience to its daily excitations.

We are thrilled to share that one of our DeSIRE members, Florence Metz, an assistant professor of Governance Resilience at University of Twente, has won the Professor de Winter Award for her publication in the American Journal of Political Science.