journals. They have acquired their knowledge through participation in projects, training courses and workshops on disaster risk reduction, post earthquake damage assessment and rescue team collaboration. They have expanded their field experience by participating in damage assessments after past devastating regional earthq uakes and floods.

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The research focus of EERC lies in earthquake ground motion monitoring and modelling, seismic hazard modelling and assessment, seismic design of structures, structural vibration monitoring, seismic risk reduction, community outreach and communication, and societal resilience to seismic risk. The EERC operates and maintains the only country-wide strong ground motion monitoring system in Iceland. It
also monitors ground motion and structural vibrations of major infrastructures such as highway bridges and hydroelectric power plants in Iceland. In recent times, the EERC has enlarged its vibration monitoring scope to tall residential buildings and offices. The EERC is actively involved in understanding seismic risk in Iceland and communicating it to the public. In recent times, it has participated in different projects related to seismic risk to households and communicated effective mitigation strategies to different seismic risk to households and communicated effective mitigation strategies to different sectosectors of the public such as school children, home rs of the public such as school children, home and business owners, and otand business owners, and other her stakeholders such as engineers and technicians. The EERC stakeholders such as engineers and technicians. The EERC also provides service to the also provides service to the industry in seismic hazard and risk assessment for largeindustry in seismic hazard and risk assessment for large--scale projects. It scale projects. It iis currently a s currently a mmajor partner inajor partner in the SERICE projectthe SERICE project, which is a grant of excellence project funded by , which is a grant of excellence project funded by the Icelthe Icelandic Centre for Research (andic Centre for Research (www.rannis.iswww.rannis.is)). The aim of the SERICE project is to . The aim of the SERICE project is to advance scadvance scientific understanding of seismic risientific understanding of seismic risk in Ick in Iceland. eland.

RESEARCH TOPICS

• Capacity building for disaster mitigation and reconstruction
• Risk management and sustainability
• Post-conflict reconstruction
• Community engagement and participation in post-disaster reconstruction
• Protection and empowerment of women and other vulnerable groups
• Knowledge management and integration for disaster management
• Post disaster waste management
• Extreme weather events and coping strategies
• Disaster risk reduction and culture
• Resilience and adaptive capacities of SMEs
• Use of ICT / visualisation for Disaster Management
• Improved disaster resilience through social media interaction

CDR has led and contributed to a wide range of projects within the broad theme of disaster resilience:

• Funding from diverse, prestigious and innovative sources, including EU Framework 7, EU Lifelong Learning, EU Asia Link, European Social Fund, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Council and RICS.
• Addressed major local and global challenges such as climate change adaptation, social impact of post-conflict reconstruction, gender, curricular development, knowledge management, continuity planning, and capacity building for resilience.
• Projects carried out in close collaboration with academic, government and non-government partners.