ETH Risk Center

Strategy & Core Values

The Risk Center fosters both top-​down initiatives and bottom-​up collaborative research projects linked with R&D. It also serves as an interface between academia, industry and civil (or governmental) authorities. Its research output should help society and industry better manage risk portfolios and design novel solution for collaborative risk reduction and resilience-​enhancing schemes.

Overcoming fragmented research allows coping with the systemic nature of risk more efficiently and shaping the evolving concepts of "Integrated Risk Management" and "Resilience".

The ETH Risk Center strives to

• better design and manage the complex interdependent systems our societies depend on;
• develop novel approaches to capture extreme events, including the use of big data sets;
• accelerate ETH Zurich's research in all risk domains;
• strengthen ETH Zurich's risk-​related education and talent pool and, consequently, Switzerland's private and public sectors;
• provide an attractive communication platform for global knowledge-​sharing and dialogue;
• become a first-​rate information source about crises and risks;
• understand the growing complexity and interdependence of our social and engineered systems, and uncover related behavioral phenomena;
• overcome fragmented research to better cope with the systemic nature of risk, synergistically connecting modern sciences and methods to risk domains.