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4. Location Strategy and Social Impact The choice of Camerino is both strategic and symbolic. Severely impacted by the 2016 earthquakes, the city serves as a living laboratory for post-disaster reconstruction. Supported by the historic University of Camerino, STRIC actively contributes to regional socio-economic revitalization, stimulates local employment, and supports long-term recovery. Applied research informs community preparedness and reconstruction strategies, promoting

sustainable development in hazard-prone areas. 5. Future Prospects and Research Impact

STRIC aims to advance multi-hazard engineering research, supporting risk preparedness and informing post event reconstruction. Full-scale testing, hybrid simulations, and soil-structure interaction studies provide critical data for building codes, innovative technologies, and disaster management. The facility may expand to address floods, landslides, and climate-related extreme events. Integration with monitoring networks and digital twin technologies will further enhance predictive capabilities and resilience planning. Through its advanced infrastructure, interdisciplinary approach, and commitment to societal benefit, STRIC positions itself as a reference center for Europe and beyond, fostering innovation, scientific collaboration, and evidence-based risk mitigation. 6. Conclusions STRIC aims at representing a landmark research infrastructure in Italy and Europe, offering unmatched capabilities for testing structures, infrastructures, and systems under realistic hazard conditions. By combining advanced shake-tables, a movable reaction wall, and hybrid simulation techniques, STRIC addresses critical gaps in earthquake and multi-hazard research. Its strategic location, sophisticated infrastructure, inclusive governance, and multi-hazard focus position STRIC as a key instrument for scientific advancement, disaster preparedness, and sustainable regional development. Acknowledgements The Authors acknowledge the financial support from the Italian Government “Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza - Fondo Complementare Programma unitario di intervento per le aree del terremoto del 2009 e 2016 Misura B - Sub- misura B.4 Centri di ricerca per l’innovazione Centro internazionale per la ricerca sulle Scienze e Tecniche dalla RICostruzione fisica, economica e sociale STRIC ” and “ Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale - Potenziamento centro internazionale per la ricerca sulle Scienze e Tecniche della RICostruzione STRIC+”. References Van Den Einde L, Conte JP, Restrepo JI, Bustamante R, Halvorson M, Hutchinson TC, Lai CT, Lotfizadeh K, Luco JE, Morrison ML, Mosqueda G, Nemeth M, Ozcelik O, Restrepo S, Rodriguez A, Shing PB, Thoen B, Tsampras G. 2021. NHERI@UC San Diego 6-DOF Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table Facility. Front. Built Environ. 6:580333 Nakashima M, Nagae T, Enokida R, et al. 2018. Experiences, accomplishments, lessons, and challenges of E-defense —Tests using world’s largest shaking table. Japan Archit Rev 1(1):4 – 17. Joint Research Centre, ESFRI Roadmap for the New Research Infrastructure EFAST: EFAST Project (Design Study of a European Facility for Advanced Seismic Testing), Dictus Publishing, Bruxelles, Belgium, (2011). Ogawa N, Ohtani K, Katayama T, Shibata H. 2001. Construction of a Three-Dimensional, Large-Scale Shaking Table and Development of Core Technology. Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Sep. 15, 2001, Vol. 359, No. 1786, Dynamic Testing of Structures (Sep. 15, 2001), pp. 1725-1751. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3066478 Van Den Einde L, Restrepo J, Conte J, Luco E, Seible F, Filiatrault A, Clark A, Johnson A, Gram M, Kusner D, Thoen B. 2004. Development of the George E. Brown jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) large high performance outdoor shake table at the university of California, San Diego. Proceedings of 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1 6, 2004. Fossetti M, Lo Iacono F, Minafò G, Navarra G, Tesoriere G. 2017. A new large scale laboratory: the LEDA Research Centre (Laboratory of Earthquake engineering and Dynamic Analysis). Proceedings of the Pavia, Italy, 6 th – 8 th September – 2017.