The Center

We foster a better understanding of the growing complexity and interdependence of modern systems

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The Risk Center fosters both top-down initiatives and bottom-up collaborative research projects, supported by an adequate organizational structure. It also serves as an interface between academia, industry and civil (or governmental) authorities. Its research output should help society and industry better manage risk portfolios and design novel solution for collaborative risk reduction and resilience-enhancing schemes.

Overcoming fragmented research allows coping with the systemic nature of risk more efficiently and shaping the evolving concepts of "Integrated Risk Management" and "Resilience".

The Risk Center's activities are grouped in themes, the so-called Clusters.

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Our Ambitions

  • Better design and manage the complex interdependent systems our societies depend on.
  • Develop novel approaches to capture extreme events, including the use of big data sets.
  • Accelerate ETH Zurich's research in all risk domains.
  • Expand and reinforce ETH Zurich's risk-related education and talent pool and, consequently, Switzerland's private and public sectors.
  • Provide an active and attractive communication platform for global knowledge-sharing and dialogue.
  • Be a first-rate information source about crises and risks.
  • Advance our understanding of the growing complexity and interdependence of social and engineered systems.
  • Overcome fragmented research to better cope with the systemic nature of risk, creating synergies between knowledge and methods in all areas of risk.