World Centre of Excellence (WCoE)

The application of World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction was called on 4 April 2016 and closed on 1^st August 2016. The received application forms were evaluated by the objectives and criteria below and identified through the following steps of screenings, eligibility examination by ICL secretariat, technical evaluation by evaluation committee, and the preliminary examination at 12^th session of IPL Global Promotion Committee held at UNESCO on 18 November 2016, and the evaluation from wider scope and endorsement by the Independent of Panel of Experts consisting of 5 members from UNU, UNESCO, and Disaster Reduction experts, and finally the following twenty recommended candidates of WCoEs were reported and approved by the Ad-Hoc IPL-Global Promotion Committee on 29 May 2017 at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The list of WCoEs 2017-2020 was released and certificates were awarded by the chair of the IPL-GPC, Qunli Han (UNESCO) in the Recognition of ICL and IPL Activities session of the Fourth World Landslide Forum held in Ljubljana on 30 May 2017.

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	Landslide Monitoring and Critical Infrastructure Application Form Progress Report 2017	Peter Bobrowsky	Canada	Geological Survey of Canada
2	Scientific research for mitigation, preparedness and risk assessment of Landslides Application Form	Yueping Yin	China	China Geological Survey
3	Formation mechanism research, disaster warning, and universal education of landslides in permafrost regions Application Form Progress Report 2018	Wei Shan	China	Institute of Cold Regions Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University
4	Center for Applied Landslide Research (CALaR) Application Form Progress Report 2018	Snjezana Mihalic Arbanas, Zeljko Arbanas	Croatia	Croatian Landslide Group from University of Zagreb and University of Rijeka
5	Landslide risk assessment and development guidelines for effective risk reduction – continuation Application Form Progress Report 2018	Vit Vilimek	Czech Republic	Charles University, Faculty of Science & Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics Czech Academy of Sciences
6	Enhancement of the existing Real-time Landslide Monitoring and Early warning System in Western Ghats & Himalayas, India Application Form Progress Report 2017	Maneesha V Ramesh	India	Amrita University
7	Development of Community-based and Most Adaptive Technology for Landslide Risk Reduction Application Form Progress Report 2018	Dwikorita Karnawati	Indonesia	University of Gadjah Mada
8	ATLaS: Advanced Technologies for LandSlides Application Form Progress Report 2018	Nicola Casagli	Italy	Department of Earth Sciences, University of Firenze (DST-UNIFI)
9	Methods and tools for landslide forecasting and risk mitigation and adaptation strategies Application Form Progress Report 2018	Fausto Guzzetti	Italy	Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica (IRPI), of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)
10	Landslide Hazards Mitigation Programs in the Korean Demilitarized Zone Application Form	Sangjun Im	Korea	Korean Society of Forest Engineering
11	Landslide Quantitative Risk Analysis Study for Malaysia Application Form	Che Hassandi Abdullah	Malaysia	Slope Engineering Branch, PublicWorks Department of Malaysia
12	Landslides Integrated Research for Disaster Risk Reduction Application Form Progress Report 2017	Irasema Alcántara Ayala	Mexico	National Autonomous University ofMexico (UNAM)
13	Characterizing past and planned activities: Klima 2050 – Innovational methods for risk reduction associated to hydro-meteorologically induced landslides Application Form	José Cepeda	Norway	Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)
14	Central Asia rockslide inventory. Compilation and analysis Application Form	AlexanderStrom	Russia	JSC “Hydroproject Institute”
15	Harmonization of Landslide Data and Local Communities Capacity Building for Landslide Risk Reduction Application Form Progress Report 2018	Biljana Abolmasov	Serbia	University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology
16	Landslides in Weathered Flysch: from activation to deposition Application Form Progress Report 2018	Ana Petkovšek	Slovenia	University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (ULFGG)
17	Landslide risk reduction in Slovenia Application Form Progress Report 2018	Mateja Jemec Auflic	Slovenia	Geological Survey of Slovenia
18	Model Policy Frameworks, Standards, and Guidelines on Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction Application Form Progress Report 2018	A A Virajh Dias	Sri Lanka	Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau (CECB)
19	Characterizing past and planned activities: NBRO is the national focal point for landslide disaster risk management Application Form Progress Report 2018	Asiri Karunawardena	Sri Lanka	National Building Research Organization
20	Implementation of National Slope Master Plan Application Form Progress Report 2018	Oleksander Trofymchuk	Ukraine	The Institute of Telecommunication and Global Information Space (ITIGS) of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU)