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Created in 1987, the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) is a platform for co-operation between European and Southern Mediterranean countries in the field of major natural and technological disasters. Its field of action covers the knowledge of hazards, risk prevention, risk management, post-crisis analysis and rehabilitation. (more...)

News ... (08/03/2010)


Protection of businesses against floods and the vulnerability of technical networks

The prevention of flood risk in the Loire basin and its tributaries constitutes a major field of intervention for the Loire River Basin Authority which is organising a conference on this topic on 8 June 2010 in Orleans (Auditorium of the Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM).

For more information please consult:
http://www.plan-loire.fr/conference-2010-prevention-risque-inondation/


14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering


The Conference is organised by the Macedonian Association for Earthquake Engineering (MAEE) and will be held in Ohrid ("the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia") from 30 August to 3 September 2010.
The conference will provide a great opportunity for exchanging ideas on the present situation of earthquake engineering and its implementation in protection of population and national economies against seismic impacts and development of risk prevention culture. Different workshops on existing joint projects will also be organised.
For more information please consult the following web page: www.14ecee.mk.
 


Management of Coastal Recreational Resources

The conference is focused on selected coastal management issues related to beaches, yacht marinas, ecotourism and conservation, and the impact of coastal hazards on such resources. The conference is organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics (ICoD) of Malta and will take place in Grosseto, Italy on 27-30 October 2010.  

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50th anniversary of the seism in Agadir

The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Evaluation and Prevention of Seismic Risks (CEPRIS) of Rabat (Morocco) is organising in collaboration with the Faculty of Science of Agadir an international scientific meeting to mark the 50th anniversary of the earthquake in Agadir from 1960. The event will take place in Agadir on 26-28 February. For more information, please consult: http://sismo.fsa.ac.ma/


Previous Activities
 
 
 
 
CALENDAR

12th Ministerial Session of the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement, St Petersburg, 28-29 September

Meeting of the Bureau of Permanent Correspondents of EUR-OPA, 26 February, Paris

Annual Meeting of the Directors of Specialised Centres, 1-3 February 2010

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FOCUS

The Republic of Serbia has officially joined the EUR-OPA Agreement on 17 September and therefore becomes the 26th member of the Agreement.

Memorandum of Co-operation between the Council of Europe (EUR-OPA) and the United Nations (ISDR)

 
PUBLICATIONS

Multilingual Risk Management Glossary (Summary)


Let our children teach us!



An ISDR publication which reviews the role of the education and the knowledge in the field of disaster risk reduction.