Milano-Bicocca, NATO project launched to prevent social conflicts in Central Asia through the study of natural hazards

On behalf of NATO, the University of Milan-Bicocca will lead, for the next three years, a research programme in the field of ‘Science for Peace’ entitled ‘Prevention of Geo-threats to Azerbaijan’s Energy Independence’. The project is coordinated by Alessandro Tibaldi, a geologist from the Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences at Milan-Bicocca, and a team of scientists from Italy, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

The research has the twofold aim of improving scientific cooperation between certain states of the former Soviet Union and the West and preventing possible social conflict situations in Central Asia through strategically focused natural hazard prevention studies.