Calendar

Rui Pinho will present GEM at an International Workshop on protection of the built environment against earthquakes, in Ljubljana, Slovenia on August 27, and Helen Crowley will give a presentation on one of GEM's Global Components, titled: 'Building a Global Database for Seismic Risk Assessment'.

Follow this link for more information on the workshop.

A GEM presentation is part of the DMAPS Forum at the 5th International Civil Engineering Conference (CECAR5). DMAPS stands for Disaster Mitigation, Awareness and Preparedness Strategies. For more information and the other presentations that are part of the Forum follow this link.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) holds its annual meeting of the Americas in Brasil this year. Rui Pinho will present GEM and will have a number of side-meetings with representatives of collaborating institutions in the American Continent. Follow this link for more information on the event.

An IT review takes place from 28-30 June at ETH in Zurich. A team of 17 external experts will review the work of GEM’s IT team and provide them with feedback and recommendations. Technical experts from GEM’s partners will also be participating.

Rui Pinho will present GEM at the Global Risk Forum's biannual IDRC Davos conference on disaster and risk reduction.

GEM is scheduled for Monday morning May 31st.

From April 26th to April 30th a series of international GEM meetings will take place. These are internal meetings aimed at review, discussion and sharing of knowledge.

The meetings will be held at the GEM Secretariat, in Pavia, Italy.

Rui Pinho has been asked to be present the SDR workshop to guide and support reconstruction in Haiti.

The U.S. National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR) is organizing an invitation-only workshop to identify and refine key science and engineering information to guide and support rebuilding efforts in Haiti.

Rui Pinho will be one of the speakers at the Second International Conference on Asian Catastrophe Insurance, held in Bejing the 8th of 9th of December.