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	Year Established
Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
HUMLOG Institute	Hanken School of Economics	Finland
Institute of Seismology	University of Helsinki	Finland	1961
Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM)	University of Adger	Norway
Pandemic Centre	University of Bergen	Norway
Arctic Safety Centre	University Centre in Svalbard	Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science	Uppsala University	Sweden	2010
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety	Lund University	Sweden
Centre for Societal Risk Research	Karlstad University	Sweden	2020
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	1997
Centre for Urban Processes, Resilient Infrastructures & Sustainable (Built) Environments (UPRISE)	University of Salford	United Kingdom
Flood Hazard Research Centre	Middlesex University	United Kingdom	1970s
Global Disaster Resilience Centre	University of Huddersfield	United Kingdom
Hazard Research Centre	University College London	United Kingdom	1997
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience	Durham University	United Kingdom
IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster	University College London	United Kingdom	2017
Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction (IRDR)	University College London	United Kingdom	2010
Disaster and Development Network (DDN)	Northumbria University	United Kingdom	2004
Cabot Institute	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
Disaster Management Centre	Bournemouth University	United Kingdom	2001
Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP)	Oxford Brookes University	United Kingdom	1985
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	2002
Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI)	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	2008
National Centre for Resilience	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	2016

Southern Europe

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Institute for Earth Observation	Eurac Research	Italy
Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)	Saints Cyril and Methodius University	Republic of North Macedonia	1965
Cátedra Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres: Ciudades Resilientes	University of La Laguna	Spain	2014

Western Europe

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium	1973
The Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	2002
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	2009
The Center for Security Studies	ETH—Zurich	Switzerland	2002

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.