1. CORILA, Venice, (Italy) Association of Italian Public Research Institutions (CNR,OGS, Universities) for coordination of the scientific research on Venice Lagoon, overseen by the Ministry of Research of Italy Expertise on: Design, implementation and management of large interdisciplinary scientific projects in complex environments More specifically: Coast and lagoon monitoring, data collection and integration, modelling and validation, DSS and transfer to public administrations In-house capacity: staff of 10 professionals, Scientific Committee, plus 16 coordinated Groups of 200 researchers of 70 Institutions, 18 non-Italian TEWS Info Day, 31 Jan 2006, Paris

2. Potential Interest/Contribution to TEWS Developing and testing multi-sensor integration systems (e.g. coastal radar and tide gauges) Possible implementation of pilot alert systems close- to-coast in low sea-bottom high-seismic area (Adriatic Sea), to be coupled with the already operational Venice high-tide alert system Contact point: [Mr Pierpaolo Campostrini, Director] Email: [campostrini@corila.it ] Tel: [+39 0412402511] Url: [http://www.corila.it] Long time series of data available for wave analysis and forecasting Sea infrastructure already available, (CNR tower in Adriatic Sea)

3. Desired Level of Cooperation Willing to participate in project under definition, contributing: – –a specific area of interest (Adriatic Sea), – –“hardware” infrastructure (CNR Tower) – –“software” development capabilities (models, database, communication and warning systems) – –Testing and exploiting capabilities, especially interfacing public administration and community needs Gulf of Venice as one test area of TEWS?