With the participation of the representatives of partners from Italy, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Greece, the kick-off meeting of the AIMS project was organized in Ancona, Italy on 26th and 27th of September.
During the meeting, the partners have focused on the project work plan and methods of the implementation of activities.
Partners have discussed management and reporting activities that will be needed for successful project implementation and have agreed on communication activities.
On the second day of the meeting, the participants have joined the study visit to the Ancona great landslide – site of Posatora on north entrance to Ancona town. The Ancona landslide destroyed or damaged 785 homes and affected 11% of this city inhabitants and was one of the largest of such disasters to occur in recent European history.
Project “AIMS – Development and testing of a shared, AI-based predictive model for a coordinated use of big data and for a joint Monitoring System of landslides risk in the Adriatic-Ionian region”, is realized through the Interreg ADRION programme and deals with landslide monitoring and prevention with the main objective of developing a tailored methodology for prediction and early forecasting usable in different ADRION areas. The proposal moves from the challenges posed by the high hydrological vulnerability of the Adriatic-Ionian to derive new predictive, AI-based models investigating connections of climate change-related events with augmented landslide hazard, with the idea of providing useful instruments for risk mitigation.
The lead partner of the AIMS project, and the host of the kick-off meeting is Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italia, while there are seven project partners:
• Geological Survey of Slovenia
• Albanian Geological Survey
• Resource Environmental Centre Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Croatian geological survey
• University of Patras – Greece
• Romagna Tech Italia and
• Regional Development Agency of Eastern Serbia
