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The core of ecorisQ is made of its members. By joining ecorisQ you will expand your professional network and profit from transparent tools in the field of natural hazard risks. Being an ecorisQ member demonstrates that you are willing to increase the transparancy and reproducibility of natural hazard analyses and that you promote sustainable protection against natural hazards.
Events
Online short course on Rockyfor3D (v6.0) - 28 January 2025
On Tuesday, the 28th of January 2025 from 13:30 until 17:30 CET, we organised an online course on the latest version (6.0) of Rockyfor3D (RF3D) with more than 150 participants joining from around the world. This course dealt with:
- History of RF3D and introduction
- Workflow for modelling based rockfall hazard assessment
- RF3D v6.0 versus v5.2
- Effect of the cellsize of input data
- Reach probability
- Command line version of RF3D and batching
- Accounting for protective measures in RF3D
- Q&A
For those who missed it - or those who want to revisit the session - the recorded course is now available on the our YouTube channel!
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-78J9cI8F1Y
Training courses and GA June 2024 in Vienna (AT)
ecorisQ was present as a sponsor at the Interpraevent 2024 conference, which took place from 10 to 13 June 2024 in the Conference Center Hofburg Vienna, Austria. We organised our general assembly in parallel, where all ecorisQ members were cordially invited. This took place from 18h30 – 20h00 on wednesday 12 June 2024 in MQ Vienna (MuseumsQuartier, 6 min. walk from the Hofburg) in Barocke Suite C. Our board member Dr. Chris Philipps kicked-off the GA with a 25 min. presentation on "Reflections on my 45 years of ‘bioengineering’ research on landslides and vegetation", which was both interesting and entertaining.
On friday 14 June 2024 we organised two full-day training courses at the BOKU in Vienna: one on landslide hazard assessment (see the details here: pdf Program landslide course(112 KB) ) and one on rockfall hazard assessment (see the details here: pdf Program rockfall course(111 KB) ) using ecorisQ tools and methods.
World Landslide Forum Firenze Nov. 2023
ecorisQ is actively present as a sponsor at the Sixth World Landslide Forum in Firenze (Italy), which takes place from 14-17 November 2023. The Forum is entitled Landslide Science for Sustainable Development and contributes to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, through the Kyoto Commitment for Landslide Risk Reduction which was signed in 2020 by approximately 90 institutions. The aim of the Forum is to create a common platform to promote cooperation between scientists, technicians, experts and policy makers dealing with landslides in order to define common priority actions for risk reduction on a global scale. The Sixth World Landslide Forum is taking place on the sixtieth anniversary of the Vajont landslide, the largest landslide disaster in Italy, which caused more than 1900 deaths.
9th ecorisQ General Assembly in Bolzano (IT)
On the 2nd of May 2023, we organised the 9th general assembly at the NOI Techpark in Bolzano, Italy. Members were invited to participate at a technical symposium on rockfall and hydro-geomorphological hazards in the morning followed by the general assembly. After lunch we organised an excursion in the surroundings of Bolzano and visit the rock mass fall of Jan. 2021 that destroyed Hotel Eberle and recent protection works against large wood and boulders in the Talferbach, north of Bolzano.
- archive Presentations of the ecorisQ GA in Bolzano(78.63 MB)
- pdf Excursion guide ecorisQ GA in Bolzano(14.68 MB)
FAN course on protection forests for natural hazard specialists
The FAN Autumn Course 2022, which takes place in 1 and 2 September 2022 in Brig (Switzerland) addresses the forest as a living organism but also as a biological protection measure from a scientific, social and strategic perspective. Knowledge and interesting facts will be imparted through expert lectures and excursions. More information can be found here.
Symposium on flood and integrated catchment management (June 2022)
Following the catastrophic floods of July 2021 in the area covering NW-Germany, the province of Liège in Belgium and the most southern part of the Netherlands, ecorisQ organised, in close collaboration with the Waterschap Limburg (provincial water board) and the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, with support from the BFH-HAFL, its 8th general assembly focused on flood and integrated catchment management in hilly medium-size catchments (100 - 1000 km2). This took take place in Valkenburg aan de Geul in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands on 22 & 23 June 2022.
- pdf Program(5.40 MB)
- pdf Excursion Guide(141.47 MB)
- pdf Conclusies ecorisQ symposium Juni 2022 (NL versie)(4.65 MB)
- pdf Conclusions ecorisQ symposium June 2022 (EN version)(4.65 MB)
- archive PDFs of the symposium presentations(72.01 MB)
5th SBEE 2021 Conference in Bern
We organised the 5th International Conference on Soil, Bio- and Eco-Engineering SBEE 2021 together with the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH-HAFL from June 19th – June 25th 2021 hybrid at the museum of natural history in Bern (Switzerland) and online. In parallel, we organised our yearly general assembly. The programme of the conference can be found here. About 25 participants were present in Bern and another 30 online.
