Technologies and innovative multi-scale tools for landslide risk prevention: the activities of the first year within the Innovation Ecosystem “Tech4You”.

With the current climate change, the attention is more and more focused on “adaptation strategies”, that take place by multi-stakeholder actions (research, businesses, society and government) towards resilient communities. With these aims, the PNRR Innovation Ecosystem “Tech4You - Technologies for climate change adaptation and quality of life improvement” has been proposed by a partnership including public (University of Calabria, University “Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, University of Basilicata, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, etc.) and some private partners. Tech4You has been funded by means of the Next Generation EU Program, through the Italian Ministry of University and Research and lasts three years. Within the cited R&I Project, the Spoke 1 “ANTARES - CirculAr techNologies to miTigate geo-hydrologicAl and foRest firE riskS” includes the Goal “Technologies and innovative multi-scale tools for landslide risk prevention” articulated in two Pilot Projects (PPs). PPs aim to: a) make multi-scale and interdisciplinary on-site laboratories as demonstration systems and knowledge generators and as decision support for the management of landslide risk (adaptation, mitigation/reduction) and b) propose methods and tools for quantitative modelling of diffuse and local landslides, training the planning, the scheduling and the designing of landslide risk adaptation, mitigation/reduction activities.

The first year of activity has been addressed to the collection of databases, from various sources, regarding climatic, geological, geotechnical, morphological, etc. and models and methods for landslide triggering and evolution, already implemented and tested in other study areas. In this way, a first draft of the Catalogues and Libraries is being created, to be continuously upgraded, during the project and after its end. The proposed approach is circular and multi-scale based, spanning from regional scale (Calabria and Basilicata) to basins and detailed scale, finalized to in-situ laboratories.  Results, at the end of the Project, will be friendly used and updated, with a circularity and multidisciplinary approach, by various stakeholders, such as national, regional and territorial administrations, freelancers, enterprises, communities, etc. For that, the come up with a general platform and dedicated platforms will be realized by companies or Consortium of companies, selected by means of Public Tender (called “Cascade Calls”).         

 

This work was funded by the Next Generation EU - Italian NRRP, Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.5, call for the creation and strengthening of 'Innovation Ecosystems', building 'Territorial R&D Leaders' (Directorial Decree n. 2021/3277) - project Tech4You - Technologies for climate change adaptation and quality of life improvement, n. ECS0000009. This work reflects only the authors’ views and opinions, neither the Ministry for University and Research nor the European Commission can be considered responsible for them.