EU-MEDIN requires a continual effort and contribution, in order to provide information, news and organized data to the European and world-wide research community regarding the progress, events and achievements obtained in the field of natural disasters and, in particular, to promote the contribution of the European research component in this context.

A group of experts has been established by EU-MEDIN in order to:

• define a common scheme of metadata that will be suitable for organizing results of R&D projects
• address the needs and the way to establish common vocabularies for supporting the efficient collaboration between the members of the natural risk research community
• collect and organize research results of past and on-going projects of the EC according to the templates defined by EU-MEDIN
• maintain and update the EU-MEDIN news portal

The members of the EU-MEDIN Experts Working Group are the following:

Coordinator: George Eftichidis
News portal Administrator: Angelos Sphyris

Olga Rio, Earthquake engineering, Istituto Edoardo Torroja (ES)
Alberto Dusi, Seismic hazards (I)
Renzo Rosso, Floods, Politecnico di Milano (I)
Paolo Gasparini, Volcanic risk, Universita di Napoli (I)
Jean Marie Jacques, Socio-economic issues, University of Namur (BE)
Jochen Zschau, Earthquakes, FZK (GER)
Stefanos Tsotsos, Landslides, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (GR)
Marios Dikaiakos, Infornation Technology, University of Cyprus (CY)
Giles Dusserre, Industrial Risks, ARMINES (F)

You may contact the members of the EU-MEDIN Experts Working Group, in order to provide them with information and material concerning your research activity and the results of your projects so that they may be promoted through the EU-MEDIN initiative. Alternatively, you may submit your contribution directly to the EU-MEDIN news portal through the Submit News selection in the "Interactive Area" menu in the left column.