One of the tasks of INTERPRAEVENT is to plan and conduct international interdisciplinary events. Up to now, 15 international congresses have been organized on the topic of preventive protection against natural hazards.
These congresses take place regularly, every 4 years, in different regions of Europe and are attended by over 400 experts from well over 20 nations.
- 2024: Vienna(A): How to manage risks under global warming?
- 2021: Bergen, Norway (held as online congress): Natural hazards in a changing world
- 2016: Lucerne (CH): Living with natural risks.
- 2012: Grenoble (F): Protection of living spaces from natural hazards
- 2008: Dornbirn (A): Protection of populated territories from floods, debrisflow, mass movements, and avalanches
- 2004: Riva del Garda (I): Long-term protection against flooding, debris flow, avalanches an rockfall
- 2000: Villach (A): Long-term protection against flooding, debris flow, avalanches and rockfall
- 1996: Garmisch Partenkirchen (D): Protecting living space from flooding, debris flow and avalanches
- 1992: Bern (CH): Protecting living space from flooding, debris flow and avalanches
- 1988: Graz (A): Protecting living space from flooding, debris flow and avalanches
- 1984: Villach (A): Coordination in flood protection management
- 1980: Bad Isch (A)l: Analysis of natural areas for the purpose of disaster prevention in structural flood protection and spatial planning
- 1975: Innsbruck (A): Protecting Alpine living space
- 1971: Villach (A): Limits and possibilities of preventing storm-related disasters in the Alpine region
- 1967: Klagenfurt (A): Flooding and spatial planning
In addition, the international congresses entitled “Interpraevent in the Pacific Rim” were held ...
- 2023 in Taichung (Taiwan)
- 2018 in Toyama (Japan)
- 2014 in Nara (Japan)
- 2010 in Taipei (Taiwan)
- 2006 in Niigata (Japan)
- 2002 in Matsumoto (Japan)
Besides the large congresses, INTERPRAEVENT also offers specialist seminars, which are always organized and financed together with local institutions. Furthermore local events are also financially supported.
Reports or seminar documents from different meetings and specialist seminars have been compiled. Furthermore, handbooks (e.g. DOMODIS – Documentation of Mountain Disasters, published 2002) represent important result of international cooperations.
Every four years those who are responsible for the subject of natural hazards meet for high-level talks. This meeting - the so called INTERPRAEVENT Summit - serves the counselling preparation for political decisions in the prevention of natural hazards.
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