Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham FOR MOTHER EARTHAmrita landslide research

Research partnerships

Built together,
across the world

Amrita’s landslide work is backed by the European Commission and India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences, shaped with state disaster agencies, and connected to an international research network.

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Joint research centres

10

International projects

25

Research partners

200+

Industry collaborators

Network figures cover all of Amrita’s disaster risk reduction work. Amrita also holds 3 UNESCO Chairs.

Funders & government

From prototype to public system

Each stage of the early warning system has had a funding or government partner.

European CommissionFP6 · WINSOC project, 2006Department of Information Technology, GoISecond major project, 2009Ministry of Earth SciencesCo-funded Sikkim-Darjeeling deployment, 2018Sikkim State Disaster Management AuthorityCo-funder, Sikkim deploymentKarnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring CentreMoU 2023 · Kodagu · joint dashboardGajapati, OdishaMoU 2024

LANDSLIP · Indo-UK-Italy consortium

Landslide Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Preparedness and Early Warning in South Asia

Links natural and social sciences in a multidisciplinary, participatory approach. Amrita leads on social media data in multi-hazard risk assessment, on forecast reliability for hydrologically controlled landslides, and on research co-produced with national and district stakeholders.

British Geological SurveyKing’s College LondonNewcastle UniversityMet OfficeNational Research Council of Italy (CNR)CNR-IRPIINCOISIndia Meteorological DepartmentKSNDMCSikkim SDMA
Logos of LANDSLIP consortium partners

Joint centres of excellence

Five joint centres

Shared centres with international partners, led by numerical simulation of landslides.

Numerical Simulations of Landslides & Real-time Monitoring of Natural Disasterswith Politecnico di MilanoGeospatial Excellence on Spatial Analysis & Modelingwith EsriClimate Change Risk Assessment Modeling & Multi-hazard Managementwith an Indian government partnerEarth Sciences, Mineral Prospecting & Disaster Managementwith British Geological SurveyHydrometeorological Monitoringflash floods, floods, droughts, groundwater, climate change, natural hazards · with ISTI-CNR

International network

Major research partners

Universities, research councils and industry across Europe, the UK, the USA and India.

Logos of Amrita’s major research partners including BGS, King’s College London, EPFL, ETH Zürich, UC Davis, Politecnico di Milano and Fujitsu
Source: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Disaster Risk Reduction & Community Resilience 2026, pages 4, 7, 11, 29 and 31.