1. NEW COST ACTION Resilience of building environment against disasters Robustness assessment of urban settlements against disasters Proposed title

2. Possible scenarios: Blasts Lanslide and Flooding Impacts and collisions Fire Earthquakes Storms Robustness assessment of urban settlements against disasters

3. Single construction Aggregate District Regional DIFFERENT SCALE Robustness assessment of urban settlements against disasters

4. SEVERAL APPROACHES Robustness assessment of urban settlements against disasters

5. Infrastructures Transportations RoadwaysRailwaysAirport Pipelines OilGasWater Telecommunications POSSIBLE OBJECTS OF THE STUDY Buildings Built heritage New constructions OrdinaryMonumentalStrategicResidentialOffices Robustness assessment of urban settlements against disasters

11. At least 5 participants: Declaration of intention in Praha ITALY University of Naples Federico II ROMANIA Politehna University of Timisoara Raul Zaharia GREECE Technical University of Crete Georgios E. Stavroulakis POLAND Warsaw University of Technology Leslaw Kwasniewski CZECH REPUBLIC Czech Technical University in Prague UK University of Sheffield ….

12. NEXT CALLS September 2013 March 2014

14. 27 September Submission deadline Preliminary Proposal 22 November Invitation for Full Proposal 24 January Submission deadline full proposal 15 May New action approval

15. PREPARATION DEADLINES FOR PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL 5 JulyCollection of contributions from participating countries 30 July First draft 25 AugustSuggestion for improvement to first draft 10 September Final draft 15 September Submission 27 SEPTEMBERCOST DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION

16. Good luck New Cost Action !