DeSIRE (Designing Systems for Informed Resilience Engineering), an extensive interdisciplinary research and capacity building programme, ran from 2018 to 2023. The DeSIRE-programme funded 17 Tenure Trackers, 20 Postdocs and over 50 Resilience Fellows across 14 faculties at the 4TU's. It was part of the strategic research impulse ‘High Tech for a Sustainable Future’ of the four universities of technology in the Netherlands (Eindhoven, Delft, Twente and Wageningen) forming the backbone of 4TU.Centre for Resilience Engineering.
Together we built a thriving community on Resilience Engineering in the years that we actively implemented the 4TU.DeSIRE programme. We aimed to design solutions for complex social-technical-environmental systems requires linking different domains and disciplines. We made connections between scientists, practitioners, engineers and policymakers; between universities, companies and the government. Towards this goal DeSIRE created multidisciplinary capacity across the 4TUs with applications across sectors (agri-food, decision making under uncertainty, energy/cyber, supply chain/ transport networks, urban and water).
