October 23, 2012 The 2012 edition of the Compendium is now available. more
May 24, 2012 Tecnalia is pleased to announce the Workshop “MANAGING OCCUPATIONAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH NANOMATERIALS” taking place on 24th May 2012 at Euskalduna Conference Centre, Bilbao (Spain). more
May 23, 2012 Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Jovanovic, CEO of EU-VRi and Coordinator of the FP7 iNTeg-Risk Project, will present a paper at the OECD Workshop on Natech Risk Management which will be held in Dresden (Germany) from the 23rd to the 25th May 2012. The workshop draft proceedings can be downloaded from here. more
May 02, 2012 The second instance of the iNTeg-Risk Course I-R1 "INTRO: Introduction to Risk Management" took place on May 2-5, 2012 at Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology ( SIMT). The course was organized in conjunction with 4th iNTeg-Risk Conference 2012. more
April 25, 2012 Following a successful meeting held on April 3, 2012 in Geneva, important observations and positive comments were received from the International Air Transport Association ( IATA) regarding EU-VRi's economic modeling developed within the ALFA-BIRD project. more
April 17, 2012 In order to understand European Standardization and be able to use it, CEN and CENELEC are organizing the StandarDays on April 17-18, 2012, in Brussels. more
January 16, 2012 INERIS scientific report devoted attention to the results of iNTeg-Risk project. See more details in INERIS " Rapport Scientifique 2010/2011". more
January 14, 2012 The World Economic Forum's (WEF) "Global Risks Report 2012" which was presented by the Wharton Risk Center, an academic partner of the WEF since 2005, has garnered significant media coverage. Click here to watch the video ( WEF). more
January 14, 2012 The Wharton Risk Center, an academic partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2005, is pleased to present the WEF’s Global Risks Report 2012, Seventh Edition. Click here to download this report. more
November 27, 2011 (excerpt from the e-mail of the project officer)
Dear R-Tech PPP-China-Project-Team,
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The interim report is excellent. It is very well structured, contains all necessary information and nicely sum up all relevant activities / findings or the project up to today. more
October 18, 2011 What is a nanomaterial? European Commission brings a common definition of a nanomaterial, the definition will be now applied in all EU-VRi/R-tech projects dealing with nanotechnology ( iNTeg-Risk, MUST, PARTICOAT, Nanodevice…) more
August 09, 2011 Prof. Ortwin Renn, president of the EU-VRi (European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management), participated to an very important event which took place at the Beijing Normal University in the period August 01 - 12, 2011
2011 Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk,
Disaster, Risk, and Integrated Governance
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July 20, 2011 EC has launched the current call for proposals under the 2011 and 2012 Cooperation work programme of Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013) and amongst them is the Work Programme 2012 - Theme 4: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies (NMP). Download the relevant published paper here. more
July 14, 2011 OECD's FGS project came to a fruitful conclusion whereby EU-VRi, together with University of Stuttgart (ZIRN) and Steinbeis R-Tech, contributed notably to the project with their work on one of the selected case studies (Social Unrest). Click to download FGS project report: 1. Executive Summary; or 2. Full report (preliminary version). more
June 15, 2011 The 3rd iNTeg-Risk Conference 2011 took place in Stuttgart, Germany on June 6-10, 2011, in conjunction with the SRA-Europe 2011 Annual Meeting. The presentations are available for download. Further information have been sent to all participants via e-mail.
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March 21, 2011 Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies GmbH and D’Appolonia S.p.A have finished the project Complex ecological examination of Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS) production facilities (EnvironNIS), whereby assessment done in 2010 had covered main environmental issues (air, soil, groundwater and waste water) on 12 selected facilities. The project results were presented at a press conference on March 17, 2011 and according to the words of Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Oliver Dulić, EnvironNIS is " one of the best and the most comprehensive studies, ever performed in Serbia". more
March 16, 2011 A press release about the Specialist Brainstorming and Coordination Meeting on "Life cycle Assessment (LCA) and Risk Analysis in Nanomaterials-related NMP projects" (Brussels, March 2, 2011) has been published in the last newsletter (March 2011) of the Italian Network on LCA.
The full newsletter can be found here (in Italian). more
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May 02, 2012 The second instance of the iNTeg-Risk Course I-R1 "INTRO: Introduction to Risk Management" took place on May 2-5, 2012 at Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology (SIMT). The course was organized in conjunction with 4th iNTeg-Risk Conference 2012. more
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April 25, 2012 Following a successful meeting held on April 3, 2012 in Geneva, important observations and positive comments were received from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) regarding EU-VRi's economic modeling developed within the ALFA-BIRD project. more
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April 17, 2012 In order to understand European Standardization and be able to use it, CEN and CENELEC are organizing the StandarDays on April 17-18, 2012, in Brussels. more
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January 14, 2012 The World Economic Forum's (WEF) "Global Risks Report 2012" which was presented by the Wharton Risk Center, an academic partner of the WEF since 2005, has garnered significant media coverage. Click here to watch the video (WEF). more
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January 14, 2012 The Wharton Risk Center, an academic partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2005, is pleased to present the WEF’s Global Risks Report 2012, Seventh Edition. Click here to download this report. more
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November 27, 2011 (excerpt from the e-mail of the project officer)
Dear R-Tech PPP-China-Project-Team,
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The interim report is excellent. It is very well structured, contains all necessary information and nicely sum up all relevant activities / findings or the project up to today. more
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October 18, 2011 What is a nanomaterial? European Commission brings a common definition of a nanomaterial, the definition will be now applied in all EU-VRi/R-tech projects dealing with nanotechnology (iNTeg-Risk, MUST, PARTICOAT, Nanodevice…) more
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July 14, 2011 Extensive coverage in the international press was given to the report of OECD's FGS project which has come to a fruitful conclusion as the organisation presented the project findings on June 27, 2011.
Click here to watch the news broadcast (Reuters). more
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June 21, 2011 Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, has announced the new name of the future EU funding programme for research and innovation: "Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation", which will enter into force on 1 January 2014, after the end of FP7 on 31 Dec 2013. Click here to read this statement. more
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January 26, 2011 The publication of this report marks the conclusion of the first phase of IRGC’s ongoing project on emerging risks. With this report, IRGC aims to raise awareness among professionals about the fact that risks emerge from a common ‘fertile ground’ cultivated by twelve generic factors which are described and illustrated in detail within the report. Click here to download this report. more
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Welcome to EU-VRi
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European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management, the European organization which provides the highest quality of professional service, consulting, information and education needed in the broad area of modern integrated risk management and management of emerging risks. EU-VRi covers, but is not limited, to the areas of oil and gas industry, e-health, biomedical industry, corporate social responsibility, environmental risk management, business risks, transport risks, logistics. EU-VRi is organized as an EEIG.
What is an EEIG?
The purpose of a European Economic Interest Grouping is to facilitate or develop the economic activities of its members by a pooling of resources, activities or skills. This will produce better results than the members acting alone. It is not intended that the grouping should make profits for itself. If it does make any profits, they will be apportioned among the members and taxed accordingly. Its activities must be related to the economic activities of its members, but cannot replace them. An EEIG must have at least two members from different Member States. An EEIG does not necessarily have to be formed with capital. Members are free to use alternative means of financing.
Who can join the EU-VRi?
An EEIG can be formed by companies, firms and other legal entities governed by public or private law which have been formed in accordance with the law of a Member State and which have their registered office in the Community. It can also be formed by individuals carrying on an industrial, commercial, craft or agricultural activity or providing professional or other services in the Community
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What are the main objectives and planned activities of the EU-VRi EEIG?
What are the main benefits to be a member of EU-VRi EEIG?
- To provide better business opportunities through integrating the available human and other resources concerning integrated risk management at European level
- To ensure better chances for EU funded projects through representing the economic interest of the related industries by a strong grouping at EU level
- To provide better opportunities for the group members to affect EU policy
On-line application
On-line application form is available. This form can be used to place a request to be added to the EU-VRi mailing list and/or apply for becoming a member of the Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management (EU-VRi).
Click here to go to on-line application
Other centers/projects with close cooperation
- Steinbeis Transfer Institute Advanced Risk Technologies, part of Steinbeis University: link
- R-Tech - Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies: link
- iNTeg-Risk - Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging, New Technology related Risks: link
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