Climate Hub Courmayeur - Residency Living Lab

Courmayeur Climate Hub is a hybrid reality by nature: a network, a social laboratory and a physical place, but above all a project that will accompany Courmayeur over the coming years. The resort at the foot of Mont Blanc mobilizes the resources of the territory and involves researchers, professionals, students and creatives in order to develop new ways of living and living the mountain in a sustainable way, triggering a process of participatory regeneration in support of the territory and its villages.

The project is funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Specifically, he was one of the winners of the B line of the Borghi- Local Projects for Cultural and Social Regeneration - and includes several lines of action, including the Residence Living Lab initiative.

Residency Living Lab

A multi-day full immersion organized by Fondazione Montagna sicura: international experts discuss risk management in the Alpine environment, extreme events and climate change on a regional scale. All this by adopting the perspective of the Living Lab, an innovative approach to complexity. The aim is to bring together experts and researchers from all over the world, bringing together knowledge and expertise in terms of best-practices related to risk management in the Alpine environment on a local scale.

For their activities, the Residencies use the expertise - as a scientific coordinator of excellence - of Yves Bühler, who also serves as team leader at the SLF WSL Davos (CH) (Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research), CERC - Climate Change, Extremes and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research.

The first phase will take place from 3 to 6 November 2024: a team of twenty experts, almost all from public administrations and research centres in the Alpine area, but also from other continents (India, North America, Norway) will meet to discuss risk management and governance, with a particular interest in issues related to avalanches, landslides, extreme precipitation and ice collapse. The objective is to draw up, all together, a booklet that incorporates various examples of risk situations in the mountain areas and best practices that can be adopted.

Application deadline: 28/02/2024

Info: sgottardelli@fondms.org