Itrend - Chilean Institute for Disaster Resilience

2016

CREDEN Strategy

A cross-cutting group of more than 80 experts compose the CREDEN Commission, with the support of the CNID (currently CTCI) and develop a national strategy to face disasters. When designing this strategy, the idea of creating Itrend was born.

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2017 - 2018

Itrend project design

Itrend project design: Following the CREDEN Commission recommendations, the project design for Itrend was carried out. In December 2018, CORFO officially announced the launching of the project called “Foundation of a Public Technological Institute to develop Resilience against natural disasters (Itrend)”.

2019

Formation

Formation: Itrend started to work, forming its team, and setting up its governance model. A call for partners was held to compose the new corporation with the support of a transitional board, made of six leading representatives of the academia, the private and public sector.

2020

iGOPP Chile 2020 application

The Index of Governance and Public Policy for Disaster Risk management application was launched, along with the Inter-American Development Bank.

2021

Progress on the governance model and new projects

From February, Itrend has a new legal entity, including its own legal personality as a non-profit organisation. Also, in March 2021 the Itrend board of directors met for the first time.

In March, the first session of Itrend's Civil Society Council, made up of representatives of 12 civil society institutions working in disaster risk management, was held.

"Aprende Resiliencia" site and the Resilience Data Platform, both created by Itrend, are launched.

2022

Itrend's operation transfer

The complete transfer of Itrend’s operations was carried out, by the Pontifical Catholic University and the University of Chile, which until then had built up the project. Additionally, its Council of Public Bodies was constituted and met for the first time.

2023

Resilient Chile

The first two versions of the Resilient Chile Event were held: the first in January of that year, focused on artificial intelligence and climate change, and the second in October with panels and presentations on technologies to address forest fires.

2024

Stage 2 starts

Itrend completes 5 years with funding from Corfo and is preparing to move to a second stage of development, based on the institute's value proposition. Its hallmark is to empower the disaster resilience ecosystem by helping to solve ecosystem failures to deliver its best, promoting collaboration, agility and talent, achieving high standards in the provision and adoption of creative solutions to increase the country's resilience.

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