World Centre of Excellence (WCoE)

The list of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction 2020-2023 was approved and announced at the 16^th Session of the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides held on 2 November 2020, during the 2020 ICL-IPL online-virtual Conference: Launching of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 (KLC2020)

Objectives of WCoE:

To strengthen the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) and IPL Global Promotion Committee;
To create “A Global Network of entities contributing to landslide risk reduction”;
To implement the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk; and
To improve the global recognition of “Landslide Risk Reduction” and its social-economic relevance, and entities contributing to this field.

Criteria for WCoE Candidates:

Governmental and non-governmental entities such as universities, agencies, and other institutions, and their subsidiary entities (faculties, departments, centres, divisions or others) which meet the following two conditions:

• Contributing to “Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction”; and

• Willing to support IPL intellectually, practically and financially by either joining ICL or/and contributing to IPL-GPC and promote “landslide research and disaster risk reduction” on a regional and/or global scale in a mutually beneficial manner.

No.	WCoE Title	Leader	Country	Organizations
1	Slow moving translational landslides in argillaceous soils and weak rocks Application Form	Michael T. Hendry	Canada	University of Alberta
2	Formation mechanism research, disaster warning, and universal education of Cold Regions Landslide Application Form	Wei Shan	China	Research Center of Cold Regions Landslide
3	Landslide Modeling: From Physical to Phenomenological Models Application Form	Željko Arbanas,Snježana M. Arbanas	Croatia	Croatian Landslide Group
4	Community centered landslide disaster risk reduction in changing climate, continuation Application Form	Josef STEMBERK	Czech Republic	Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics Czech Academy of Sciences & Charles University, Faculty of Science
5	Documentation, Training and Capacity Enhancement on Landslides Risk Reduction and Resilience Application Form	Surya Parkash	India	National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi
6	Internet of Things (IoT) for landslide disaster risk reduction Application Form	Maneesha V Ramesh	India	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus
7	Development of risk reduction strategy and technological innovation for landslide mitigation Application Form	Teuku Faisal Fathani	Indonesia	Universitas Gadjah Mada
8	Development of multidisciplinary and integrated methodologies for mitigating geological risks Application Form	Francesca Bozzano	Italy	CERI – Centro di Ricerca Previsione, Prevenzione e Controllo dei Rischi Geologici (Research Centre on Geological risks) – Sapienza Università di Roma
9	Advanced Technologies for LandSlides (ATLaS) Application Form	Nicola Casagli	Italy	UNESCO Chair for the prevention and the sustainable management of geo-hydrological hazards, University of Firenze (UNIFI)
10	Integrated research on landslide disaster risk Application Form	Irasema Alcántara-Ayala	Mexico	Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
11	Landslides in Weathered Heterogeneous Sedimentary Rock Masses such as Flysch Application Form	Matjaž Mikoš	Slovenia	University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (UL FGG)
12	International Training Course on Slope Land disaster Reduction Application Form	Louis Ge	Chinese Taipei	Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University
13	National Slope Master Plan, method of certification heritage objects in hazardous landslide sites Application Form	Oleksandr Trofymchuk	Ukraine	The Institute of Telecommunication and Global Information Space (ITIGS) of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU), Research Institute of Building Constructions (RIBC)
14	Developing Model Policy Frameworks, Standards, and Guidelines on Landslide Disaster Reduction Application Form	S. S. I. Kodagoda	Sri Lanka	Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau
15	Research on landslide initiation mechanism based on physical model Application Form	Katsuo Sasahara & Asiri Karunawardena	Japan & Sri Lanka	The Japan Landslide Society & National Building Research Organisation
16	Bridging Science, Policies, and Partnership for Landslide Risk Management Application Form	Hans Guttman	Thailand	Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
17	Central Asia Rockslide Inventory. Compilation, Analysis and Training Application Form	Alexander Strom	Russia	JSC “Hydroproject Institute”
18	Harmonization of Landslides Data and National Authorities Capacity Building for Landslide Risk Reduction – continuation Application Form	Biljana Abolmasov	Serbia	University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology
19	Landslide Susceptibility Map Assessment Base on Climatological Changes Using Geographic Information Systems Application Form	Ir. Hj. Zulkifly Bin A. Ghani	Malaysia	Slope Engineering Branch, Public Work Department Malaysia