News

The Urban Resilience Open Educational Resources (OER) platform of the 4TU RE Academy is now live!

A new newsletter has been posted.

We are welcoming Prof. Andy Johnson and Dr. Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf as our New 4TU RE Steering Group members.

Prof. Dr. Tatiana Filatova, long time researcher at the University of Twente, will move to TU Delft from April 1st, 2021. Here, she will be active in the Multi Actor Systems Department at the TPM Faculty. For the 4TU community no change is foreseen, as she will continue leading the 4TU DeSIRE Programme, and will continue serving in the Scientific Steering Group of the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering.

This year, TU Delft's Dies Natalis was all about resilience. How do we take on the challenges of tomorrow? With a variety of keynote speakers, the week-long event has given interesting insights into which challenges lie ahead and how to confront them.

We are very pleased to announce that the CASTOR project received a NWA-ORC grant of 1.9 million euro. This means green light for this project as well. CASTOR is all about the sandy-soil landscapes of the east and south Netherlands. These have a wide range of agricultural, recreational and natural functions and are at risk with climate change. Using a living lab approach, the CASTOR project identifies climate-robust landscapes for the future, and together with government and societal partners they design pathways towards these.

We are very pleased to announce that Bas Borsje, Associate Professor Nature-based Flood Protection, received a NWA-ORC grant of 1.9 million euro to start working on the Living Dikes project. Living dikes are a promising way to climate‐proof our coast. These dikes consist of a soft foreland and a green dike, thereby slowing down the waves and reducing the wave load on the dikes. This research facilitates the construction of living dikes by weighing interests, testing living dikes under extreme conditions and formulating design rules to be applied by end‐users.

For the course ‘Integrated Project’, master students in Environmental Engineering at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of TU Delft were given the opportunity to make trend reports about a specific shock/stress of a chosen metropolis. These trend reports will be aligned with the Open Educational Resources (OER) about (Urban) Resilience Engineering.

The December edition of the JIRC20 newsletter has been published. Check the link below to read all about the proceedings, Thematic Issue in SESMO and more!

1st Polder2C’s Winterschool: Fieldwork for flood resilience will take place March 1-5, 2021.

Our Joint International Resilience Conference has come to an end!

Our Joint International Resilience Conference 2020 has started! With more than 700 participants, we are confident to have a great online event this week.

Marjolein Dohmen-Janssen to be Secretary General of the 4TU.Federation

Tatiana Filatova, Member of our 4TU RE Scientific Steering Group and DeSIRE Programme Leader has been awarded a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will enable her to strengthen her own, innovative line of research and set up a competitive research team over the next five years. Our congratulations to Tatiana! 

Tatiana Filatova, programme leader of DeSIRE and member of the 4TU RE Scientific Steering Group, has presented a keynote on the Medan International Conference on Energy and Sustainability 2020 (MICES 2020)! Check out the full presentation below.