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Welcome to CORFU website! CORFU stands for Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in Urban areas and it 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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This website contains only the authors' views and the European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.


In memory of our colleague

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erik Pasche (1955-2010)
Technical University of Hamburg and Harburg
 
With immense sadness the CORFU project team was informed of the unexpected death of Professor Erik Pasche on 30th November 2010.
 
There are no words to express our sorrow. Erik’s brilliant mind, endless energy and personal charm will be sadly missed.  CORFU project partners would like to extend sincere sympathies to his family, colleagues and friends.
 
CORFU has lost a dedicated team leader and a great friend.  Our project and the numerous other pursuits in which Erik played a key role will suffer the loss.  CORFU project will continue as Erik would have wished.
 
Erik had more than 25 years of research experience in the field of hydrodynamics, hydrological modelling, flood management, experimental research in the field of hydroinformatics.
 
Erik Pasche studied at the RWTH Aachen and received his doctorate there with distinction. For his doctoral thesis on "Turbulence mechanisms in natural rivers and streams and their mathematical modeling" he received the Borchers Medal for outstanding research in 1984 at the RWTH Aachen.  He then conducted research as a NATO fellow at the University of California at Davis.  Prior to joining TUHH, the native of Dresden was co-partner of the engineering firm Björnsen Consulting Engineers in Koblenz, for which he worked as a research consultant.  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Pasche was a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Exeter in 2008.

Erik Pasche was a visiting professor at the UNESCO-IHE at Delft University.  He was a board member of the Port Technology Association and director of several working groups of the Federal Association of Engineers for Water Management, Waste Management and Land and the German Association for Water, sewage and waste.  He was Vice-Chairman and German representative of the COST initiative C22 - Urban Flood Management, the Hamburg election commitment for international climate protection.

On his initiative, in June 2012, the International Conference on Hydroinformatics will be held for the first time in Hamburg.  This biennial conference will host more than 300 experts in the field of hydraulic engineering and climate change.
 


 

 

Please note that CORFU now has a website at www.corfu7.eu which is updated with current project activities.

 

 

Collaborative Project on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas (CORFU) funded by the Commission of the European Communities, Research Directorate General and Seventh Framework Programme.



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