WCoE: Mechanisms of landslides in over-consolidated clays and flysch and IPL-151 project: Soil matrix suction in active landslides in flysch-the Slano Blato landslide case

Abstract

The Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana (UL FGG), Slovenia, Europe, was voted in 2011 at the 2nd World Landslide Forum in Rome, Italy to be one of the 14 new World Centres of Excellence (WCoE) in Landslide Disaster Reduction for the period 2011 to 2014. This successful nomination followed the period 2009- 2011, in which UL FGG successfully fulfilled the role as one of the WCoEs for the first time. The title of the activities of the WCoE was selected to be "Mechanisms of landslides in over-consolidated clays and flysch". Among the activities of the WCoE at UL FGG we can name the active IPL-151 project on "Soil matrix suction in active landslides in flysch-the Slano Blato landslide case", as well as activities to establish two ICL networks, the regional one "Adriatic-Balkan Network-ABC" and the thematic one "Landslide Monitoring and Warning Thematic Network-LaMaWaTheN". In the paper the international activities of the WCoE at UL FGG are elaborated, as well as other international and national activities and projects in which the WCoE has been involved in the field of landslide mitigation and landslide risk reduction.