Objective To assess seismic vulnerability of existing European hospitals.To establish the criteria and methods for their rehabilitation,their retrofitting and for the design of new ones.The following tasks are foreseen for the research:Typical damage evaluation based on past earthquakes evaluation ofessential activities after an earthquake and consequences ofdamage on first aid organisation. This task will be essentiallybased on Italian, Greek and Portuguese earthquakes for Europe andextra specific data will be obtained from America, Iran andPhilippines.Evaluation of the fragility and vulnerability of existinghospitals and methods for their reduction (based on real casestudy hospitals for the different European countries). Possiblestrategies for retrofitting and rehabilitation of existinghospitals.Evaluation of the vulnerability of the regional hospital system(based on real case study regional systems). This task will bebased on two cases: a regional system in a moderate seismic riskarea (Southern France) and a regional system in central Italy.A Guide will be obtained with recommendations concerning criteriafor seismic design and retrofitting of hospitals for earthquakes. Fields of science medical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismologysocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis managementseismic risk management Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040101 - Seismic hazard Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Stin SpA Address Via della bufalotta 336 00139 Roma Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE D'ETUDES TECHNIQUES DE L'EQUIPEMENT - MEDITERRANEE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Boulevard stalingrad 56 06300 Nice See on map LABORATORIO NACIONAL DE ENGENHARIA CIVIL Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address 101,avenida do brasil 101 1700-066 Lisboa See on map National Technical University of Athens Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 42,patission street 42 10682 Athens See on map University of Cambridge United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6 chaucer road CB2 2EB Cambridge See on map Università degli Abruzzi Gabriele d'Annunzio Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viale pindaro 42 65127 Pescara See on map