The UC School of Engineering was the meeting place for the authorities of the emergency agencies, and specialists of the new Institute for Disaster Resilience, to define the coordination and joint to define the instances of coordination and joint work, in order to make Chile an international reference in terms of resilience during the next twenty years. resilience over the next twenty years.
The meeting was attended by: Ricardo Toro, director of Onemi; Cristóbal Mena, national deputy director of Juan Carlos de la Llera, dean of the Faculty of Engineering UC; Alejandro Jofré, researcher of the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the U. of Chile; and Jofré, researcher of the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the U. of Chile; Felipe Machado, director of the Chile; Felipe Machado, director of the Institute for Disaster Resilience (Itrend); Felipe Machado, director of the Institute for Resilience (Itrend); Paula Aguirre and Magdalena Gil, area directors of Itrend. Itrend.
Special emphasis was placed on the need to the need to coordinate research, development and innovation efforts at the national level in disaster resilience, development and innovation efforts at the national level in disaster resilience, the work carried out by Onemi as the main agent in charge of ensuring the safety and information in charge of ensuring the safety and information to the public in the event of phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, among others.
The director of the new Institute for Disaster Resilience, Felipe Machado for Disaster Resilience, Felipe Machado, said that "the Sendai Framework emphasizes the Sendai Framework highlights the importance of knowledge for disaster risk management, and it is therefore and, therefore, it is relevant that emergency response agencies, researchers, experts, innovators and researchers, experts, innovators, and entrepreneurs can establish collaborative networks to and entrepreneurs can establish collaborative networks to face the challenges we have as a country. we have as a country.