News ... (04/02/2010)

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/

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.
 

Meeting of the Working group on Ethics and Disaster Risk Reduction

The main objective would be to review and complete as appropriate the draft text of the European and Mediterranean Ethical Charter on Resilience to Major Disasters. The draft concerns both natural and technological disasters and aims at improving preparedness and dealing with ethical problems related to victims of disasters. The meeting will take place in Paris on 19 January.  

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