1st NHERI-EUCentre Collaboration Meeting (October 29, 2018)

On July 10th 2018, the research collaboration on earthquake engineering between US and Italy got off the ground with the signing of the Letter of Agreement between Purdue University, on behalf of Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), and the NHERI Network Coordination Office (NCO), and the EUCENTRE Foundation on earthquake engineering research using EUCENTRE and NHERI facilities. The first Planning Meeting was held on October 29th 2018 at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC to discuss the details of the new research collaboration. At this meeting participated leading researchers from both countries as well as representatives from government agencies to discuss in plenary and breakout sessions the plans for NHERI and EUCENTRE collaboration.