A kick-off meeting for the project took place in Munich in mid-September AlpFuturePaths, which is co-funded by the Interreg Alpine Space Program. The project aims to develop common approaches and tools to ensure the safety and accessibility of mountain trails and huts in the Alps in the face of the increasingly pronounced effects of climate change. The project addresses slope processes such as rockfalls, landslides, and debris flows, as well as changes in glacial and permafrost regions.

Partners from Slovenia, Austria, Italy, and Germany—including GeoZS—presented the current situation in the area under consideration and the planned project activities. In Slovenia, pilot activities will take place in the Triglav National Park. Mountain huts and trails that are exposed to slope processes and therefore pose a risk to mountain visitors will be selected. As part of the project, a web application will be developed to help plan safer mountain visits, which will include information on various types of risks. The project will also utilize the MASPREM system, which will be expanded to cover the entire Alpine region to illustrate the impact of climate change on the occurrence of landslides.