This symposium aims to bring together the complementary expertise of world leading groups carrying out research on the engineering assessment, prevention and mitigation of geohazards.

To mitigate against these disasters we need for instance to achieve better models for a more rational risk assessment of areas prone to landslides, investigate the geomechanical conditions leading to the onset of landslides (e.g. earthquakes), model debris flows and mudflows to estimate run-out distances and destructive power of the landslide materials, improve our modeling capabilities of fluid – ground interaction.

Prevention, preparedness and mitigation of geohazards rely on sound geo-engineering which requires competences in geomechanics, numerical modelling, constitutive models for soils, hazard zonation and risk assessment.