In our second CIDR Talk at the Center for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research, we had the pleasure of welcoming Gloria Kutscher and Derin Kent. Their…
Goals and areas of expertise
The Center for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research is a consortium of research groups in the field of disaster research at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. Its goal is to harness the potential of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of technology, business, and education. Our specific expertise covers the following areas:
- Education in Civil Protection
- Disaster Management
- Resilience in Flood Risk Management
Latest news
How well prepared are people in Germany for crises such as power cuts, floods or supply bottlenecks - and how do they actually learn to prepare?In a…
Today our first CIDR Talk took place at the Center of Interdisciplinary Disaster Research (CIDR ). Around 40 participants attended the session "Flood…
Last week, Prof. Anja Danner-Schröder took part in the "In Extremis" workshop at Umeå universitet. In a small circle of researchers on "Extreme…
Cooperations
Science
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Free University of Berlin
- Geo Research Center Potsdam
- Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, (United States)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Medical School Hamburg
- Free University of Berlin
- Berlin University of Technology
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
- Mines Tech, Paris (France)
- RWTH Aachen University
- Berlin University of Technology
- Braunschweig University of Technology
- Dortmund University of Technology
- Dresden University of Technology
- Munich University of Technology
- Umeå University (Sweden)
- Environmental Research Center Leipzig
- University of Hamburg
- Universitae Politehnica Timisoara (Romania)
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
- Université de Lorraine (France)
- University College London (Great Britain)
- University of Namibia (Namibia)
- University of Queensland (Australia)
- University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Warwick Business School (Great Britain)
- et al.
Practice
- Professional fire departments Kaiserslautern, Magdeburg, Neuwied and others
- Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
- Deutsche Bahn InfraGO
- German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)
- Emschergenossenschaft/Lippeverband
- Düsseldorf Fire Brigade
- Hamburg Fire Brigade
- Flood Competence Center Cologne
- Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management (LHW)
- Technical Relief Organization, SEEBA, local associations Sinzig, Euskirchen, Achim and others
- West Palatinate Clinic Kaiserslautern
- and others