Welcome to CORFU

Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in Urban areas (CORFU) is an interdisciplinary international project that will look at advanced and novel strategies and provide adequate measures for improved flood management in cities. The differences in urban flooding problems in Asia and in Europe range from levels of economic development, infrastructure age, social systems and decision making processes, to prevailing drainage methods, seasonality of rainfall patterns and climate change trends.

     Our vision is that this project will use these differences to create synergies that will bring new quality to flood management strategies globally. Through a 4-year collaborative research programme, the latest technological advances will be cross-fertilized with traditional and emerging approaches to living with floods.

CORFU is funded by a grant from

the European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme:

  ec.europa.eu/research/environment/index_en.cfm

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