CERGC

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 risk. Field exercises are offered with all CERG-C modules. 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 385 participants from 80 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 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. A limited number of scholarships are 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/hazards. For registration and information, please email: [email protected]