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Our Joint International Resilience Conference has come to an end!

Our Joint International Resilience Conference 2020 has started! With more than 700 participants, we are confident to have a great online event this week.

Marjolein Dohmen-Janssen to be Secretary General of the 4TU.Federation

Tatiana Filatova, Member of our 4TU RE Scientific Steering Group and DeSIRE Programme Leader has been awarded a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will enable her to strengthen her own, innovative line of research and set up a competitive research team over the next five years. Our congratulations to Tatiana! 

Tatiana Filatova, programme leader of DeSIRE and member of the 4TU RE Scientific Steering Group, has presented a keynote on the Medan International Conference on Energy and Sustainability 2020 (MICES 2020)! Check out the full presentation below.

Maria Pregnolato, one of the 4TU RE Resilience Fellows, has been awarded with the NH Outstanding Early Career Award! The prize, given out by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), honors those individuals that have made considerable contributions to Earth, planetary and space sciences.

The first dashboard in the Netherlands that will predict, with great certainty, where local outbreaks of COVID-19 infections may occur. A multidisciplinary research team led by Nelly Litvak, Professor of Algorithms for Complex Networks at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), will work on this dashboard, thanks to a half million-euro grant from ZonMW. The team has worked since the corona outbreak in March to provide such predictions using aggregated mobility information from cell phone usage. The grant will be used to significantly improve those predictions, through the smart combination with data from the COVID Radar App. This will enable safety regions, responsible for local and regional corona measures, to intervene faster and more effectively in the event of imminent corona outbreaks and can even prevent the emergence of new hotbeds.

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To further disseminate the results and discussions presented at the conference, to extend our international resilience community and to reach an even wider audience we will create a thematic issue in a high quality scientific journal. We have chosen Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling and have indeed received approval from the Editor in Chief for a thematic issue with about 10-15 paper on the Resilience of coupled Socio-Technical-Environmental (STE) systems.

Extra call for Resilience Fellows exclusively for WUR and TU/e! The application deadline is October 30, 2020.

Dr. Tina Comes - Associate Professor on Resilience Decisions at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the TU Delft - is the new Scientific Director of the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering (4TU RE). She takes over from Professor David Smeulders (Eindhoven University of Technology).

With the launch of our new 4TU RE website at the beginning of this year, the brand new repository was also launched. On this page, you will find different types of open resources concerning resilience.

A newsletter with the latest updates on the conference has been published, check it out here!

A new newsletter has been published, check it out here!

To create international impact, the DeSIRE programme features a Fellowship Programme. This programme enables 4TU researchers with an interest in resilience of social-environmental-technical systems to invite and cooperate with junior and senior researchers from around the world. Calls for applications are launched on a regular basis (once or twice a year). Our ambition is to have a group of 100 Resilience fellows (including a couple of appointed ambassadors) by the end of 2022. These fellows and ambassadors are invited for our events and play a key role in advancing and spreading our new knowledge, approaches, tools and ideas about resilience engineering.