Eucentre is a non-profit private law foundation whose mission is to conduct research and provide training and services in earthquake and safety engineering 
Eucentre promotes science, research and innovation for the benefit of the community, offering targeted methodologies and concrete solutions for prevention, safety and resilience. It collaborates with institutions and companies to disseminate competencies for the common good.
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Eucentre carries out research activities in earthquake engineering and risk reduction through laboratory testing and numerical analysis, aiming to improve the seismic performance of structures and soils and to develop innovative seismic retrofitting techniques.
The Foundation promotes diverse and high-quality training activities aimed at academic and professional contexts, with constantly updated and innovative programs and initiatives designed to meet the evolving needs of the sector and society 
Eucentre ensures communication aimed at informing institutions, professionals, and citizens about ongoing activities and projects, with the goal of disseminating useful and accessible content and knowledge. It contributes to promoting a shared and informed culture of prevention and resilience.
Safety is one of the main values for the human beings of the 21st century, safety for one’s life, possessions, children, culture, and future. Safety is often considered a right. With the extraordinary impact of technology in our lives, life expectation has increased, together with a concern for the threats to this worthy ambition. Eucentre was born to focus on safety as a value, to mitigate the risk that natural events, especially earthquakes, can damage the houses we live in, the places we work in, the streets and the infrastructures we use and with them our values and affections.
Earthquakes cannot be predicted, we only know that some regions of the earth are more subject than others to such natural events. We only know what could happen in those circumstances to the structures that humankind has built in those places. In this context, risk scenarios indicate how structural vulnerability combined with the probability of a natural disaster can cause collapse and destruction, threatening our safety. Earthquake engineering and applied seismology contribute to evaluate the vulnerability of buildings, the probability that a seismic event occurs and any losses that it may cause, estimating a global and integrated risk. Earthquake engineering can also provide indications on how to mitigate such a risk by reducing the vulnerability with interventions on structures and non structural elements.
Italy is a country with a high seismic hazard, it has a widespread heritage of buildings and infrastructures and owns one of the most important cultural heritage in the world; all this together constitutes an incredible asset both public and private, both historical and artistic. Therefore, it is in the best interest of everyone, citizens, institutions, industry and cultural stakeholders, to protect the country by ensuring adequate control of the risk associated with natural disasters. For this reason, in 2003 the Italian Civil Protection Department, the University of Pavia, the University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS Pavia), and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) established in Pavia the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, which then transformed, in 2005, into the Eucentre Foundation, whose mission is to create value for its Founders and for the Country in the field of safety engineering.
