The organizing committee is currently evaluating the applications that we have received for the International Summer Course before the formal deadline of 14 March.

We are happy with the variety of applications as they were from people of ten different nationalities, mostly students in their early twenties in pursuing MS degrees in the fields of engineering on one hand and geosciences on the other.

Decision will be made before 22 March and successful applicants notified via email.

Deadline for payment of course fees has been postponed to 4 April 2013.

There is however, still room in the course and interested applicants who submit an application along with the required documentation (transcripts, etc) before 22 March are encouraged to do so!"

Due to heavy traffic on our website this week due to the application deadline for the Summer Course for 2013, we have decided to extend the deadline for the submission of applications and the required documentation. The new application deadline is 14 March. No more extensions will be given. We appreciate your interest in our summer course, and encourage all those in the process of applying to submit as soon as possible.

The decision on each application will be announced on 19 March.

Earthquake engineering and engineering seismology summer curse in Iceland 2013. Remember the deadline for application 8 March. For further information or some questions don’t hesitate to send us email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or go straight to our online application form http://www.earthquake.is/admissions/application-form

Each applicant will be contacted on the success/failure of the application. The decision will be announced 15 March 2013.

Applications for participation in the international graduate course on Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, to be held here in Iceland during during 30 May – 21 June this spring, are starting to roll in.

We would like to remind potential applications to submit an application as soon as possible, and before the deadline of 8 March.

Also, do not forget to send the additional and required application documents see www.earthquake.is/admissions/application-form

In the framework of EU research project “Urban Disaster Prevention Strategies Using MAcroseismic Fields and FAult Sources” innovative approaches are proposed to improve critical points in the procedures for assessing probabilistic hazard and seismic risk; they are tested in particular locations – Mt. Etna, Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei areas (Italy), Azores Islands and areas hit by offshore activity (Portugal), Alicante-Murcia area (Spain) and South Iceland including Reykjavik surrounding urban area (Iceland).

The Earthquake Engineering Research Centre is a partner of the project and we have the pleasure to announce that Professor Carlos S. Oliveira of Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, an authority in earthquake engineering, will lend his support to the Graduate Summer Course of 2013 on Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology. In the third week of the course he will give lectures where he brings his extensive experience and overview of the field to the table and provides the participants with a unique and wholistic perspective on the multidisciplinary field of earthquake engineering, with special emphasis on practical applications and also with respect to the test-sites of the UPStrat-MAFA project.

The website of the UPStrat-MAFA project is: http://upstrat-mafa.ov.ingv.it/UPStrat/