Residency Living Lab 2024

A full immersion lasting several days organised by the Fondazione Montagna sicura: international experts will discuss risk management in the Alpine environment, extreme events and climate change on a regional scale. All this adopting the Living Lab approach, an innovative approach to complexity. The aim is to bring experts and researchers from all over the world together around a table, pooling knowledge and expertise in terms of best-practices on risk management in the Alpine environment on a local scale.

For their activities, the Residency draws on the expertise – as scientific coordinator of excellence – of Yves Bühler, who is also team leader at the SLF WSL Davos (CH) (Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research), CERC – Climate Change, Extremes and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research.

The first phase will take place from 3 to 6 November 2024: a team of twenty experts, almost all from public administrations and research centres in the Alpine region, but also from other continents (India, North America, Norway) will meet to discuss risk management and governance, with a particular focus on issues related to avalanches, landslides, extreme precipitation and ice collapse. The objective is to draw up, all together, a document that incorporates various examples of risk situations in the area and best practices that can be adopted.

The second phase of the project, to be implemented in 2025, envisages a new discussion, this time with a legal slant, involving experts, civil protection officials and local administrators: the theme is the responsibility of the various professional figures in relation to extreme events.