About SoReCC

SoReCC, Societal Resilience and Climate Change, is an independent, non-profit Centre of Excellence based in Belgium. We work to understand how societies, infrastructures and institutions can stay safe, functional and fair in the face of climate change and emerging risk, and to turn that understanding into knowledge that others can use.

SoReCC promotes the study of, and informed discussion around, societal resilience and climate change, bringing public and private actors, governments, industry, smaller enterprises and institutions, around challenges they share. We are committed to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

We pursue this through cooperation between partners, academics and researchers, integrating expertise across engineering, the social sciences and economics. We carry out basic and applied research, translate it into practical tools and guidance, and share it openly so that knowledge reaches the people who can act on it.

SoReCC is constituted as a non-profit association under Belgian law, with its registered office at De Kleetlaan 4, 1831 Machelen. It is governed in accordance with its statutes and, being without profit motive, directs its resources towards its mission rather than to private gain.

• Independence: we are a neutral, non-profit body, free of commercial motive.
• Inclusion: our Gender Equality Plan guides an inclusive approach throughout our work.
• Sustainability: our work is oriented towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the fair use of resources.
• Openness: we share our research and methods openly.

Read our Gender Equality Plan

Our work is supported by a diversified base of grants and project funding. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Union's research and innovation programmes for the projects that make much of our work possible.