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Windstorms, hailstorms, heavy rainfall combined with "centennial" floods, major landslides and forest fires threaten the border areas. The Karawanken Geopark is one such border area that is severely affected. The above-mentioned storms pose enormous challenges for the entire geopark area on both sides of the border.

The aim of the project is to develop a system for monitoring hazards related to meteorological, hydrological and geological factors and to improve cross-border communication between municipal crisis teams and individual organisations in order to be able to respond to natural disasters on time.

Storms pose a constant threat to the population and private and public infrastructure on both sides of the border, but rarely are the appropriate measures for prevention, hazard assessment and monitoring, intervention, response and recovery coordinated across borders, and in many cases, especially intervention, gaps are identified that make it very difficult to intervene from a neighbouring country.

As part of this project, monitoring of the hazard potential must be strengthened by a monitoring system with improved weather data and landslide and rockfall hazard areas. On the one hand, this will enable a better assessment of weather conditions and thus the risk of storms and flooding. On the other hand, it will be possible to better assess the increased hazard potential from landslides and rockfalls and to analyse the acute risk from ground movements in real time. All data, combined with existing meteorological and hydrographic data and models, will improve forecasting and thus the assessment for alerting.

Lead partner: EVTZ Geopark Karawanken m.b.H. (AUT/SLO)

Project partners Geological Survey of Slovenia (SLO), GeoSphere Austria (AUT), RRA KOROŠKA Regional Development Agency for Koroška region d.o.o. (SLO)