Site Visit Objectives:
The Italian Meteorological Society (SMI) researches actively in the field of climate change and its effects in the alpine ecosystems, particularly the impact on glaciers and its consequences and new risks for the inhabitants of the mountains.

 

Company Profile:
The Italian Meteorological Society (SMI) is a scientific non-profit organisation, born in Turin September the 3rd, 1880, that disappeared during the Second World War. It was re-founded in the year 2000. The mission of the organisation is to promote the study of meteorology and all the related sciences, and to communicate the importance and utility of these studies to the whole Italian population.