Research Projects

STICS: Smart Transformation and Innovation Consortium Slovakia

- EU Research Project -

2025-2027

One Health City
Inside the STICS consortium of 14 partners, our team is developing the One Health City Framework (OHCF) to apply the concept of One Health of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to urban environments. [mehr]

Inform@Risk  
Strengthening the resilience of informal settlements to slope erosion.

Medellín, Colombia

2019-2022

Strengthening the resilience of informal settlements to landslide hazards by linking early warning systems, web technologies and landscape planning in participatory processes - case study Medellín, Colombia (BMBF). [more]

Dangerous Landscapes - Re-Thinking Environmental Risk in Low-Income Communities

International Conference

Climate change and rapid urbanization will expose more and more humans around the globe to natural hazards. Future informal urbanization activities in dangerous terrain will increase overall vulnerabilities especially for flooding and landslides in the fast growing regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. [more]

Re-habitar la montaña

Medellín, Colombia

In the past century, nearly a thousand people have died in various landslide events in the steep, unstable hills surrounding Medellín, Colombia. Most of these disasters have occured in low incomecommunties of unplanned, non-formal settlements with substandard housing. [more]