Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas: the CORFU project Jelena Batica 1 and Philippe Gourbesville 1 1 University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis / Polytech’Nice-Sophia 930 route des Colles, 06 903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France E-mail: batica@euroaquae.eu Abstract: Collaborative research on flood resilience in urban areas (CORFU) is an interdisciplinary international project founded by European Union under the 7 research framework – FP7 – that will look at advanced and new strategies and provide adequate measures for improved flood management in cities both in Europe and in Asia. Vision of the project is using these differences to create synergies that will improve resilience of cities. Through the four-year collaborative research program involving leading European and Asian institutions in this subject, the latest technological advances will be cross-fertilized with traditional and emerging approaches to living with floods. Very significant is strong need for strengthening the efficient transfer of research knowledge to policy- makers with the perspective of reducing uncertainties of predictive scenarios and creating good understanding of issues at policy stage. Keywords: climate adaptation, collaborative research, flooding of urban areas, flood resilience, flood risks, strategies. 1. INTRODUCTION ABOUT PROCESSES AND IMPORTANCE OF CRISIS IN ASIA AND IN EUROPE CORFU project (www.corfu-fp7.eu ) is a part of Seventh Framework Program FP7 (cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home ) that supports all types of research activities carried out by different research bodies in trans-national cooperation and aims to gain or consolidate leadership in key scientific and technology areas. This program is designed to build on the achievements of earlier projects towards creation of the European Research Area, and carry it further towards the development of the knowledge economy and society in Europe. Flood impacts in urban areas followed with potential deaths, damage to infrastructure and health problems, along with consequential effects on individuals and on communities on the other side impose those possible responses will be assessed by prediction of different scenarios of relevant drivers: urban development, socio-economic trends and climate adaptation. The CORFU partners are following institutions: (i) University of Exeter, United Kingdom (ii) DHI – Water & Environment, Denmark (iii) Hamburg University of Technology, Germany (iv) University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (v) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (vi) AREP Ville, France (vii) Institute of Water Modeling, Bangladesh (viii) Beijing University of Technology, China (ix) China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, China (x) Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, China