Hazards and Disaster Research Centers in Europe

This page includes a listing of university-based hazards and disaster research centers, organized alphabetically and by UN subregion in Europe.

Northern Europe

Center/Institute	University	Country
Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST)	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
HUMLOG Institute	National Defence University of Finland (NDU)	Finland
Institute of Seismology	University of Helsinki	Finland
Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM)	University of Adger	Norway
Arctic Safety Centre	University Centre in Svalbard	Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science	Uppsala University	Sweden
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety	Lund University	Sweden
Centre for Climate and Safety	Karlstad University	Sweden
Centre for Societal Security	Swedish Defence University	Sweden
Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR)	Mid Sweden University	Sweden
Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment	Cambridge University	United Kingdom
Centre for Urban Processes, Resilient Infrastructures & Sustainable (Built) Environments (UPRISE)	University of Salford	United Kingdom
Flood Hazard Research Centre	Middlesex University	United Kingdom
Global Disaster Resilience Centre	University of Huddersfield	United Kingdom
Hazard Research Centre	University College London	United Kingdom
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience	Durham University	United Kingdom
IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster	University College London	United Kingdom
Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction (IRDR)	University College London	United Kingdom
Disaster and Development Network (DDN)	Northumbria University	United Kingdom
Cabot Institute	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
Disaster Management Centre	Bournemouth University	United Kingdom
Centre for Integrated Research on Risk and Resilience (CIRRR)	King's College London	United Kingdom
Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET)	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI)	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
National Centre for Resilience	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom

Southern Europe

Center/Institute	University	Country
Eurac Research Climate and Disaster Risk Unit	Eurac Research	Italy
Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)	Saints Cyril and Methodius University	Republic of North Macedonia
Cátedra Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres: Ciudades Resilientes	University of La Laguna	Spain

Western Europe

Center/Institute	University	Country
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
The Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
The Disaster Research Unit	Free University of Berlin	Germany
Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)	United Nations University	Germany
Institute for Public Safety and Emergency Management	University of Wuppertal	Germany
The Center for Security Studies	ETH—Zurich	Switzerland

If you have questions about this project, please contact Lori Peek at lori.peek@colorado.edu. If you would like your academic research center listed on this page, or if you’d like to update or add information to a center currently on the map, please contact Emma Hines at emmanuelle.hines@colorado.edu.