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

Working across disciplines is something within the DNA of 4TU.Resilience Engineering. With regard to education, 4TU.RE sets the example with the launch of the interdisciplinary educational platform, the Urban Resilience Community Platform, on edusource. Let’s find out what it is and how to use it.

The Thematic Working Group meeting of the DeSIRE programme took place on March 14th at “de Observant” in Amersfoort. It set the scene for fruitful discussions on:

March 17, 2022 the second Thematic Seminar was held. Here, Juliette Cortes Arevalo gave a talk about Resilience examples from water and sanitation for refugees in humanitarian contexts. 

Last week February 22, 2022 the first Thematic Seminar was held, organized by one of our 4TU RE DeSIRE Thematic Working Groups, the Urban group. Here, Aynaz Lotfata and Maryam Naghibi gave a talk about Climate-adaptive streetscapes in Unplanned Urban Areas in Desert Climates and Transforming Leftover Spaces into Resilient Urban Landscapes respectively. 

From February 22, 2022 we will start Thematic Seminars every three weeks. The seminars will be organized by our 4TU RE DeSIRE Thematic Working Groups. Slots & times will be rotating, so everyone (also fellows from other time zones) have at least the possibility to join a few of the seminars. We aim at 12 sessions this year, two dedicated seminars per DeSIRE theme.

The application for new Resilience Fellows is open again! Would you like to become the next Resilience Fellow? Or do you work at one of the four technical Universities and would you like to host an Resilience Fellow?

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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of agrifood systems to shocks and stresses. It led to increased global food insecurity and malnutrition. How can we make our agrifood systems resilient?

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On 30 September and 1 October 2021, the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering and the Strategic Research Programme DeSIRE (Designing Systems for Informed Resilience Engineering) organized the yearly 4TU DeSIRE-conference on Resilience Engineering. With almost 60 participants we shared views, theories and ideas about resilience. From the Theory of Change, transdisciplinarity to the RElastiCity Game and four interesting regional cases. It was an informative, interactive, valuable and active programme. Nice to see everyone live together again!

Aynaz Lotfata and Ezgi Orhan, Resilience Fellows at 4TU.RE, have published a call for paper of the challenges of the (anti)adaptive urbanization in multiple scales.

Prof. Dr. Tina Comes, Scientific Director 4TU RE, has now officially been appointed full professor “Decision Theory & Information Technology for Resilience” by the Executive Board of TU Delft.

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