The list of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction 2023-2026 was approved and announced at the 19th Session of the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides held on 13 November 2023, at Palazzo degli Affari, 4th Floor, Hall 4, in Forence, Italy
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.
