Mechanisms of Landslides and Creep in Over-Consolidated Clays and Flysch (WCoE 2014–2017)

Abstract

The Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana (UL FGG), Slovenia, Europe, was voted in 2014 at the 3rd World Landslide Forum in Beijing, China to be one of the 15 new World Centres of Excellence (WCoE) in Landslide Disaster Reduction for the period 2014-2017. This successful nomination followed the period 2011-2014, in which UL FGG successfully fulfilled the role as one of the WCoEs for the second time. The title of the activities of the WCoE in this third term was slightly modified to be "Mechanisms of Landslides and Creep in Over-Consolidated Clays and Flysch". We can divide the activities of the WCoE at UL FGG into international and national research activities. The international ones consisted of the ICL related activities with the main task of being the main organizer of this 4th World Landslide Forum 2017, international cooperation, European research activities, and bilateral cooperation. The national ones consisted of the national projects and the national research program "Water Science and Technology, and Geotechnics". In the paper, these activities of the WCoE at UL FGG are elaborated in more detail, with a comprehensive list of publications to show the dissemination and capacity building efforts.