The Centre for Emerging Risk Studies (CERS) was developed by founding members Prof. Martin Mullins and Prof. Finbarr Murphy in 2007, to develop a new context of academic research that was informed by private and public knowledge requirements. The first focus of the group concerned risk metrication in the context of insurance attentive to a changing private and public emerging risk environment and market. Since that time the group has collaborated with SUN and grown in strength to offer a dynamic and unique research model. One of the key strengths of the CERS is in its ability to respond to an ever-changing dynamic and fluid array of emerging risk fuelled by a new paradigm of emerging technologies. To respond to this new phenomenon of emerging technological risk the group has built a collaboration of members that collectively present one of the most unique risk focused knowledge basis and research paradigms on offer today. CERS has built upon its key areas of insurance, nanotechnologies and Cloud LSVA to be a part of the new European funded Horizon 2020 consortia concerning the development of Vision Inspired Driving Assistance Systems (Vi-DAS).