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.
The project is inserted within the perspective of integrating the shortage of disaster-response capacity at the European level in the field of post-earthquake structural evaluation. The main objective is the development and implementation of a new Civil Protection Module able to ensure a rapid and effective response in the field of the post-earthquake damage and safety assessment targeted to enhance the European Rapid Response Capability (ERRC) within the European Community Mechanism for civil protection.
The European rapid response capability is based on the development of civil protection modules of the Member States, which are self-sufficient task and needs driven services. Each MODULE is an autonomous operational team representing a combination of human and material means, described by specific tasks, capacities, components, self-sufficiency and deployment, possibly interoperable with other modules, according to the Decision 2008/73/EC, Euratom (december 2007), which defines general requirements for European Civil Protection modules.
Each member state can implement a Module and made it available to the Mechanism. Currently there are 17 registered Module typologies plus one special Technical Assistance and Support Tem (TAST).
Following the recently identified quantitative gaps related to the earthquake emergency in the current state of the Mechanism (ECORIS, ENV.G.1/FRA/2006/0073), the project DRHOUSE (Development of Rapid Highly-specialized Operative Units for Structural Evaluation) aims at integrating the shortage of disaster-response capacity at the EU level in the field of post-earthquake structural evaluation. The project propose the development and implementation of a new “capacity” for the Mechanism, as a new “module for the post-disaster structural evaluation”. The module name is BUILDSAFE.
The project coordinator is the Italian Department of Civil Protection, with partners the EUCENTRE Foundation and the Italian Department of Fire Brigades, Public Rescue and Civil Defence.
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