The project aims to establish common guidelines for the planning and maintenance of torrent control structures, providing simple, quick and user-friendly tools for stakeholders. The project also aims to promote the exchange of historical data on ongoing geo-hydrological processes in torrent basins, information on torrent control structures, and mitigation strategies, laying the foundations for the development of a common innovative methodology. The project will begin with a study of pilot areas to demonstrate the applicability of the joint methodology and will provide common guidelines for action to address management issues in various river basins in Italy and Slovenia.

The TORRENT project

iNEST is the innovation ecosystem for the North-East, namely a network linking public and private research bodies, aimed at fostering synergies between the region’s diverse sectors through the use of digital technologies and the green transition. Its areas of focus are the key sectors of specialisation in the Triveneto area – namely the industrial-manufacturing, agricultural, marine, mountain, construction, tourism, cultural, health and food sectors – organised in an integrated, interconnected and sustainable manner.

The HydroLab – uniUD research group is involved in Spoke 1 “Ecosystems for Mountain Innovations”, coordinated by the Free University of Bolzano, and in particular in Research Topic 1B “Safety and quality of life in mountain environments (Mountain habitat)”, Sector 04 “Understanding and mitigation of geo-hydrological risks”.

The work carried out by the HydroLab research group – uniUD aims to define ‘best practices’ and develop guidelines for the management of river basins, identifying priorities for intervention in existing torrent control structures based on up-to-date knowledge of the operational status of the structures and the morphological changes taking place in mountain basins through the use of remote sensing techniques.

Project funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR, Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.5, Decree No. 1058 of 23 June 2022, iNEST ECS00000043 – Spoke 1, RT1B, CUP G23C22001130006).

The iNEST project

The project involves the development of an innovative warning system designed to mitigate the hydrogeological risk posed by debris flows by reducing warning times.

iNADEF is a community initiative funded by the ERDF (Interreg V-A Italy-Austria 2014-2020) and by national public contributions; INADEF involves cross-border institutional collaboration between three Italian partners – ARPAV, the University of Padua and the University of Udine – and two Austrian partners – BFW and ZAMG.

The iNADEF project