Author: Kjell Hauge

The final PHUSICOS Policy Business Forum, November 18th, 2022, aimed to understand private sector challenges better to tackle barriers and develop capacities for NBS implementation.

The PHUSICOS project held its final consortium meeting in Oslo, Norway, on 7-8 March. This workshop meeting marked the last formal event for the consortium’s 15 partners.

On November 11th Bjørn Kalsnes, PHUSICOS project manager, will moderate one of the EU side events at the ongoing COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, which will focus on nature-based solutions.

How are Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) co-created? A short video explains.

A visit to the NBS sites in the Pyrenees provided the opportunity to see good examples of how to reduce the risk from snow avalanches, erosion, rockfall, and debris flows.

The PHUSICOS Kaunertal team presented work on biogeomorphology research at the sixth edition of the Vienna Science Festival which took place from 9 to 11 September.

NGI held a lecture about PHUSICOS at our sister project’s OPERANDUM summer school taking place at the University of Bologna in the period 29 August – 1 September 2022.

A PHUSICOS-VR game will be presented at EGU22: EOS1.3 Games for Geoscience, late afternoon Wednesday 25 May. European Geoscience Union has its general assembly in Vienna, Austria 23-27 May 2022.

A spring school on nature-based solutions (NBS) for hydro-meteorological hazard mitigation in rural mountainous landscapes took place from April 2-11 and hosted wide international participation.

This report evaluate the assessment of the effectiveness of Nature-based solutions in reducing risks at the three Demonstrator Cases (DCs) of the PHUSICOS project.