Fujii, Yushiro

Capacity Building of International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute, Japan, in the Field of Earthquake Engineering

Abstract eng:
The International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE) at the Building Research Institute (BRI) in Tsukuba, Japan has provided the opportunity to study about the nature of earthquakes and about the countermeasures against their consequences since 1962, by the cooperation with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). As of March 2016, a total of 1,714 participants from 100 countries has completed the training courses from 1960. Today IISEE mainly conducts one-year training courses named Seismology Course, Earthquake Engineering Course and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course, and two–month courses named Global Seismological Observation Course and Earthquake Engineering for Latin American Course. Moreover, Short-term training courses focusing on specific themes take place occasionally. The teaching language is English for all these courses except Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course, for which is used Spanish. By the partnership with National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) initiated in October 2005, three one-year courses have been certified as a Master’s Program. BRI including IISEE has collaborated various technical assistance programs of Official Development Aid conducted by JICA all over the world, of course, including Latin America. Successful examples are found in the cooperation with CISMID, Peru, CENAPRED, Mexico and also with PUC, Chile. Recent ones with El Salvador and Nicaragua. Together with the projects in site, IISEE’s training courses has sustained the technical cooperation programs as two wheels of a chariot. IISEE in BRI continues and extends its activities together with the former partners of the technical cooperation programs in the frame of IPRED, UNESCO for the human against earthquakes in the world.

Contributors:

Yokoi, Toshiaki

Conference Title:

Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Conference Title:

16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Conference Venue:

Santiago (CL)

Conference Dates:

2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13

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