There is no need to re-iterate that 2020 has been an unusual year. Our seventh general assembly parallel to the 5th International Conference on Soil, Bio- and Eco-Engineering in Bern was cancelled, just like all planned training courses on Rockyfor3D and SOSlope. Nevertheless, we continued working on new tools. For example, all ecorisQ tools are now available for Windows (64 and 32 bit), Mac and Linux. In addition, we finished the development of the beta version of SlideForce - a hillslope debris flow runout simulation model - that will be made available in the beginning of 2021. In paralell, we are in the process of finalising SlideForMap (a tool for regional shallow landslide disposition assessment) and BankForMap (a tool for assessing bank erosion at catchment scale). Both tools will be released in 2021 as well.
Due to COVID-19, the cancelled general assembly and the additional daily work (especially in university teaching), we decided to publish a combined association report 2019-2020 in spring 2021. We sincerely hope that we will be able to organise the seventh general assembly parallel to the 5th International Conference on Soil, Bio- and Eco-Engineering in Bern in June 2021. it would be great to meet each other then. Finally, we already wish everyone a prosperous new year!
