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Safety is one of the main values for the human beings of the 21st century, safety for one\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Eucentre aims at promoting and sustaining training and research in the field of natural and manmade risk mitigation, as well as more generally in the field of civil protection, through the following actions:<\/h2>\n