Mission
The Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is the national research centre for Earth sciences in Germany. The mission of the centre is to assess and understand relevant physical, chemical, and biological processes within the geosphere and to predict future developments.
The Centre integrates methods of Earth-observation with laboratory- and field-experiments, as well as with modelling approaches. Research at the GFZ focuses on the geosphere within the highly complex System Earth with its further subsystems, its interacting subcycles, and its wide network of cause-and-effect chains. The centre does this in a close interdisciplinary collaboration with the related scientific disciplines physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology as well as with the engineering sciences disciplines of rock mechanics, engineering hydrology and seismology.
GITEWS (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System), launched 11 Nov 08.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.