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The annual IKI Day - PhD colloquium & evening summer festival - took place this year on June 28, 2023.

As part of the SeisRICHerCRO project, Jun. Prof. Lars Abrahamczyk and Prof. Davorin Penava (UNIOS) were able to perform 3D laser scanning of the Rector's Palace and the St. Saviour Church in the Old City of Dubrovnik (Croatia) for further evaluation and detailed investigation.

In part of the PARFORCE Pilot Course "Experimental testing based on impact and resistance: Wind, Fire & Earthquake", International master's students in civil engineering from Croatia, North Macedonia and Portugal were guests this week at the Dillenburg branch of the Westphalia motorway.

The Partnership for Virtual Laboratories in Civil Engineering (PARFORCE) recently organized an advanced Ph.D. training course in applied and computational mathematics for engineering applications.

The English-language Master's program »Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering« (NHRE) gets a brand new, easier to navigate and more user-friendly homepage.

In the TV program "Strategies for earthquake risk mitigation in Kurdistan region of Iraq", Prof. Abrahamczyk shared expert opinion on the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake and the lessons learned from SERAMAR project. M.Sc. Hasan talked about earthquake resistant design and shared experiences gained from the ongoing DAAD project at the chair.

Earthquake expert: Missed to focus on the region

Despite current building standards, Turkey is not doing enough to prevent earthquakes, says Dr. Jochen Schwarz from the Bauhaus University-Weimar in an interview with NDR Info.

In part of the research project, M.Sc. Peshawa Luqman and M.Sc. Baban Bapir went for a research stay from 25 Nov to 31. Dec 2022. The project team collected data and performed a series of field studies under the supervision of the project coordinator at the partner university in Iraq.