European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management
 
 
  European Risk & Resilience Institute

The European Risk & Resilience Institute (EU-VRi), is the European organization which provides professional service, consulting, information and education needed in the broad area of modern integrated risk management and, in particular, management of emerging risks. EU-VRi has been legally established in Nov. 2006 by 5 founding members (BZF, INERIS, Steinbeis, Technologica, University of Stuttgart)

EU-VRi is organized as a European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) and its purpose is to facilitate or develop the economic activities of its members by a pooling of resources, activities or skills. The activities of the EEIG are related to the economic activities of its members and the main goal of the EEIG is to promote, enhance and add value to the businesses of the EU-VRi members.

EU-VRi provides services to industry, research community and/or public authorities and connects individual industrial companies or networks of companies – often acting as a research broker.

In addition, EU-VRi facilitates the mobility of researchers between research and industry, and it acts as a vehicle to create efficient consortia to address the R&D needs and other needs of industry.

In 2007 more than 30 new members have joined EU-VRi. The members come from:

  • The EU and other countries
  • Industry
  • R&D and academia
  • Governmental and non-governmental/international organizations
  • SME’s (small and medium enterprises ).