Final Report Summary - ADERS (Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures)
The Network aimed at promoting the research cooperation for the design of earthquake resistant structures by creating strong sustained synergies between the earthquake engineering research and practice in Europe represented by two European Union Member States (EU-MS) (Greece and Cyprus), three countries with an S&T agreement (Chile, India, Mexico) and one country covered by the ENP (Egypt).
The project had a total duration of 4.5 years. The initial duration was 4 years, but 6 months were also added to it as an extension. The objective of the project was in one hand to train highly qualified engineers, by offering them the opportunity to become aware and to study intensively the recent advances in the field of analysis and design of earthquake resistant structures, and on the other hand to expose experienced as well as early stage researchers to the research activity performed by the EU partners in the field of the project. This objective has been satisfactorily achieved. Contacts within the non-EU partners were strengthened by organizing visits from the EU-partners to them for specifying common research interests and by organizing visits of them to the EU partners.