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Devastating Earthquakes

March 2, 2010

The Chile Earthquake

Outreach Meeting 2010 in tandem with WB conference

December 16, 2009

GEM is very pleased to announce that it will hold its Outreach Meeting 2010 in tandem with the ‘Understanding Risk’ conference, that is organized by the World Bank and is supported by GFDRR and UN-ISDR. From 1-4 June 2010 both events and various side-events will take place in Washington DC, USA.

Norway joined the GEM-initiative

December 7, 2009

GEM is proud to announce the formal adhesion of the Norwegian Government to GEM.

GEM at EU Civil Protection Forum

November 27, 2009

GEM was asked to be one of the exhibitors at the EU Civil Protection Forum in Brussels this week.

Highlight

Read here about GEM's thoughts on the devastating earthquakes that struck Chile and Haiti recently.

GEM released Five Requests for Proposals within the scope of its Risk Global Components, with target budgets ranging from from 300,000 – 900,000 €.
The RfPs cover the following topics: GEM Ontology & Taxonomy, Global Consequences Database, Global Exposure Database, Global Vulnerability Estimation Methods and Inventory Data Capture tools.

Deadline for proposals is 18 March 2010. Read more and download the separate RfP documents, a background document and the submission rules

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