Despite the remarkable scientific advancements of earthquake engineering and seismology in many countries, seismic risk is still growing at a high rate in world's most vulnerable countries. Successful practice experiences have shown that a country's capacity to manage and reduce its seismic risk relies on capitalization on policies as well as technology and research results, and on strengthening technical curricula for future practitioners and researchers through university and higher education programmes. Cooperative international academic research and training is always key to reducing the gap between industrialized and more vulnerable regions. Objective of this project is to establish higher education cooperation between institutions located in seismic prone European and central Asian Countries, through mobility measures aimed at creating competitive professional curricula in global disaster reduction issues. Researchers, future policymakers and practitioners will be involved in activities over a wide range of disciplines in the fields of engineering, seismology, disaster risk management and urban planning. Specific educational and research activities will focus on earthquake risk mitigation related topics such as: anti-seismic structural design, structural engineering, advanced computer structural collapse analysis, seismology, experimental laboratory studies, international and developmental issues in disaster risk management, social-economical impact studies, international relations and conflict resolution. Cooperation will take place between leading European and Asian universities involved in advanced research on seismic mitigation, centers of excellence for higher education training on disaster risk management. Mobility will involve undergraduates, masters, PhD, post-docs as well as academic and research staff