1. Side Program Today’s Alps Tomorrow: risks, resources and opportunities Side Program Today’s Alps Tomorrow: risks, resources and opportunities Alpine Space Summit Stresa, 20th June 2006

2. Risk - a topic of high priority for the Alpine Space Programme Objective and results of ASP I: - Enhancing cooperation in the field of risk prevention in the Alpine Regions - Technical solutions, common standards for the safety of society and environment of the Alps How to consolidate the achievements reached and generate cooperations and project ideas for ASP II?

3. Presentations from projects: Meteorisk - Mitigation of natural risks through improved forecasting of extreme meteorological events Foralps - Meteo-Hydrological Forecast and Observations for improved water resource management in the Alps. Alpreserv - Sustainable Sediment management of Alpine reservoirs considering ecological and economical aspects Catchrisk - Mitigation of hydro-geological risk in the Alpine catchments

4. Presentations from projects MONARPOP – Monitoring network for persistent and other organic pollutants NAB - Natural Potential of Alpine Regions Dis-Alp - Disaster INformation System of Alpine Regions- Alps GPS-Quakenet - Alpine integrated GPS Network: Real-time Monitoring and Master Model for Continental Deformation and Earthquake hazard

5. Let the presentations begin!

6. Today’s Alps Tomorrow: risks, resources and opportunities How to consolidate the achievements reached and generate cooperations and project ideas for ASP II? 1) Continuation and development How to strengthen the existing networks, partnerships? Exchange of experience - How to ensure the use of results? Ideas for future cooperations and projects based on the existing? 2) New approaches Which topics and contents have not been yet covered? What has not been done on transnational level and should be processed? 3) Synergies Which synergies could be possible? How to make them effective?