• Lead Partner: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Dep. IV/5 - Torrent and Avalanche Control Service (AT) Contact person: Florian Rudolf-Miklau, Tel.: +43(0)1 71100 7329, florian.rudolf-miklau[at]lebensministerium.at
• Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, Department of Hydraulic Engineering (IT) Contact person: Bruno Mazzorana, Tel.: +39 0471 414567, bruno.mazzorana[at]provincia.bz.it
• ONF International (subsidiary of Office National des Forêts) (FR) Contact person: Marie-Pierre Michaud, Tel.: +33 4 92 53 19 71, marie-pierre.michaud[at]onf.fr
• Geological Survey of Slovenia (SI) Contact person: Mitja Janža, Tel.: +386 1 2809 822, mitja.janza[at]geo-zs.si
• Irstea, Groupement de Grenoble, Unité de Recherche Erosion Torrentielle, Neige et Avalanches (FR) Contact person: Jean-Marc Tacnet, Tel.: +33 4 76 76 27 68, jean-marc.tacnet[at]irstea.fr
• Regional Government of Carinthia, Department 8 - Environment, Water and Nature Protection (AT) Contact person: Norbert Sereinig, Tel.: +43 50536 18331, norbert.sereinig[at]ktn.gv.at
• Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta: Department of Public Works, Soil Conservation and Public Housing, Directorate for Hydrogeological conditions of the mountain basins (IT) Contact person: Valerio Segor, Tel.: +39 0165 776604, v.segor[at]regione.vda.it
• Bern University for Applied Sciences - School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (FR) Contact person: Massimiliano Schwarz, Tel.: ++41 31 910 21 79, massimiliano.schwarz[at]bfh.ch

Within the scope of Pr. 3 of ASP 2007-13 major innovation capacities were focused on knowledge development in Natural Hazard/Risk Management (NHRM) & Risk Governance (RG) (eg. innovation in hazard mapping/protection technology) in various funded projects (& other ETC/national-R&D initiatives). START_it_up will capitalise this knowledge pool by enhancing it into a transnational common “state-of-the-art”. This unification process becomes operational by gathering/completing the available recommendations/pre-standards/good practice, assembling the knowledge in a database, benchmarking/reviewing it among partner countries, testing the usability for engineering practice/policy and implementing it as an approved best practice/standard. Based on the well-established PP expert network the project shall pave the path for an institutionalised (a) NHRM-standardisation process (b) RG policy forum, authorised by governmental/standardisation institutions, and open this field for ASP 2014+.

• Urban development and increasing land take pose a risk

• technology transfer
• knowledge transfer
• prevention
• governance

• Reducing environmental damage
• Limitation of natural disaster impacts

Results of a project can be differentiated in outputs, outcomes and impacts of an intervention.OECD Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. Project outputs can generally be identified very easily. Yet, they represent only a first step towards the ultimate objective of project interventions: Initiating project-related outcomes and having true impacts on the ground.

Outcomes are the likely or achieved short-term and medium-term effects of an intervention's outputs, e.g. the outcome of improved, knowledged-based decision-making processes as an effect of a knowledge database (= output) established by a project. Outcomes will in most cases not materialise before project closure.
Impacts are positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects produced by a development intervention, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended.OECD Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management
As outcomes and impacts are difficult to differentiate, this section contains both of these types of project results.
The identification of outcomes and impacts requires a deeper insight into the respective project e.g. through project participants or direct interviews with project representatives. Outcomes and impacts are usually not solely influenced by projects, but are a complex combination of project results on the one hand and framework conditions on the other. Unlike project outputs, outcomes and results cannot be described in a standardised way. Therefore, they are listed as free text:
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• START_it_up outputs on the official website of the project
• START_it_up outputs on the website of the Alpine Space Programme