Postgraduate Certificate on the Assessment and Management of Geological and Climate related risk, CERG-C, University of Geneva, Switzerland
We are pleased to announce the 2018 session of the CERG-C training that will be held at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) between April 9th and June 8th, 2018 (application deadline: September 12th, 2017; http://www.unige.ch/haza
Since 1988, the University of Geneva has held an international training course on geologic risk assessment and management for graduate students and practitioners under a program called the Specialization Certificate in Geological and Climate related risk (CERG-C). The CERG-C is an intensive 9-week long program integrating the physical and social sciences as well as vulnerability and economics into risk assessment. Completion of the Certificate requires a Thesis/Memoir to be conducted in the candidate’s home country or in Geneva in collaboration with various governmental or international agencies (e.g., UNISDR, UNOSAT, WMO), due within 6-months of completion of the main course work. Target modules include: risk management, volcanic risk, landslide risk, seismic risk, and flood and climate-related risk.
Field exercises are offered with all CERG-C modules. In particular, as part of the volcanic risk module, the CERG-C offers a 1-week field exercise on the island of Vulcano, Italy, to study geologic risk in the context of volcanic settings. Four main aspects are considered: physical volcanology; vulnerability─ physical, systemic, economic and social; and risk assessment and management. A dedicated educational exercise with the local primary school is also organized as is a table-top emergency exercise simulating a volcanic crisis. The training is strongly aligned with the Italian National Civil Protection Department and includes a 1-day trip to Stromboli to evaluate the interaction between physical science and emergency management.
CERG-C candidates come to Geneva from all over the world to take advantage of faculty expertise and field settings offered in Switzerland, Italy and France and to have access to major international natural disaster governmental and international organizations housed in Geneva. To date, some 400 participants from 85 different countries have been trained. The teaching faculty comprises some 30 international experts from various institutions, including University of Geneva, Switzerland; University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (Swiss Seismological Service); Swiss National Emergency Operations Centre; Swiss Humanitarian Aid; World Meteorological Organization (WMO); United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR); United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT); National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy; University of Pisa, Italy; East Tennessee State University, USA; Politecnico di Milano, Italy; York University, Canada.
Applications are due annually in September for training beginning April the following year (next deadline: September 12th). A limited number of scholarships is available. All material is presented in English, so CERG-C candidates are required to understand written and spoken English and write and speak English.
Learn more about the CERG-C by going to: http://www.unige.ch/hazard
Alternatively, you may contact the CERG-C Director, Prof. Costanza Bonadonna; Email: Costanza.Bonadonna@unig
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