ROSE – Reduction of Seismic Risk
This programme of study focuses on assessment and mitigation of risk caused by earthquakes to new and existing structures and infrastructures.

Earthquake damage in Italy, following the 2016 Amatrice earthquake.
This curriculum offers compulsory and elective courses on a number of core subjects including seismic hazard assessment and engineering seismology, dynamics of structures, geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic design of bridges, seismic analysis and design of reinforced concrete, masonry and steel constructions.
The study of these topics is preceded by a number of propaedeutic courses, which encompasses numerical analysis, probability and statistics, computational solid mechanics.
The timetable of the classes is available here.
Course Schedule
First year – Courses
First semester
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Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
1STYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Dynamics of Structures | Reinforced Concrete Structures | Applied Mathematics | Computational Mechanics | Probability and Statistics |
Semester scheduling | – |
Second semester
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Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
1STYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Seismic Hazard and Applied Seismology | Foundation Engineering and Earth Retaining Structures | Nonlinear Response Analysis | Fundamentals of Seismic Design | – |
Semester scheduling | Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering | – | – |
Second year – Courses
First semester
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Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
2NDYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Risk Assessment and Loss Estimation | One among: | Bridge Structures | Masonry Structures | One among: |
Semester scheduling | – |
Second semester
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Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
2NDYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Master thesis (27 credits) | ||||
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