About Us
Foundation
Foundation
- Apr. 2003
 21st century COE program adopted (Until 2007)
- Aug. 2003
 Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage established
- APr. 2004
 Kakuchi Elementary School Center established
- Jan. 2005
 UN World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction (Kobe) in-charge of secretariat for themes and open forum
- APr. 2005
 The Academic Frontier Promotion Program adopted (Until 2009)
- Mar. 2006
 Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage constructed
- Jan. 2006
 Symposium on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historical Cities started (Annual Project)
- Oct. 2006
 UNESCO Chair Programme on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management, International Training Course (ITC) on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage started (Annual Project)
- Sep. 2007
 Chidren’s Map Contest for Community Safety started (Annual Project)
- Apr. 2008
 Global COE Program adopted (Until 2012)
- May 2009
 Ideas Competition for Strategy on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities started (Until 2012)
- Apr. 2013
 Reorganized as Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage
- Apr. 2014
 Started a support by Toyota Foundation for International Training Course (ITC) (Until 2016)
- Mar. 2015
 UN World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction (Sendai) hosted a public forum
- Apr. 2017
 Support to ITC programe from the National Institute for Cultural Heritage(until 2018)
- Mar. 2019
 Adoption of FY2019 ODA UNESCO activity spend subsidy (cooperation project for the spread and development of the UNESCO activities that contribute for the achivment of SDGs)
Organization
| Director | Shinta YOSHITOMI Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University | 
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| Deputy Director | Akio MURANAKA Professor, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University |