Hiroshi Fukuoka Award
This award is named in honor of the late Professor Hiroshi Fukuoka, a Japanese landslide expert with global exposure to landslide risk, valuable experience in technical cooperation with developing countries, and a founding member and supporter of both the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and the International Programme on Landslides (IPL).
- It is entitled the “Hiroshi Fukuoka IPL Award”
- It is given every 3 years coinciding with the World Landslide Forum (WLF) to an individual or group of individuals whose work deals with landslide risk reduction in a developing country or countries.
- It consists of a $1500 USD travel grant to use specifically towards participation in the next WLF conference.
- It requires the winning individual/individuals to contribute a technical presentation at the WLF that highlights their landslide research contributions that benefit an area in a developing country.
- Nominations proposed by any ICL member in good standing up to 6 months prior to the forthcoming WLF will be accepted by the IPL/ICL Secretariat; the IPL/ICL Secretariat announces the exact date.
- (Winners, Beneficiaries) are notified approximately 3 months prior to the WLF.
The first recipients of the Hiroshi Fukuoka IPL Award is :
- Claudio Margottini (Scientific and Technological Attaché Embassy of Italy in Cairo (Egypt) , 20th Session of BOR/ICL, online/Virtual Conference, Kyoto, Japan in November 2020.