Signing of General Memorandum for Academic Cooperation and Exchange with BRGM

DPRI and BRGM (French Geological Survey) signed a General Memorandum for Academic Cooperation and Exchange. On February 26th, 2025, a signing ceremony was held with attendance of DPRI Director Tomoharu Hori and BRGM President and COE Catherine Lagneau.

DPRI and BRGM have been collaborating since 2009 on research such as seismic source rupture process, propagation and amplification characteristics of ground motions, estimation of building response, and damage estimation of lifelines. A Memorandum of Understanding was first signed in 2013 and extended in 2018, to continue a fruitful 10-year cooperation and exchange. This time, with BRGM under a new executive structure and preparing to be re-accredited as a research institution in France, the two institutes have signed a new academic exchange agreement.

Under the new academic exchange agreement, in addition to the research fields that have been collaborating, research on geohazards and landslides, climate change risk, coastal disaster and Tsunami estimation will be the main topics of collaboration.