Our office has attended the field excursion to the valley of Tržiška Bistrica, Slovenia, taking place on 5th November and organised by the Slovenian Water Management Society. At the excursion, we got to know the expert views on the reasons, consequences and infrastructural-environmental sanitation of the extreme floods in October 2018. This included the integral sanitation of both torrential streams and the public infrastructure in the complex Alpine environment.
While our work is focused on the processing, analysis and visualisation of environmental data, we are well aware of the importance of gaining experience on the local ground. This helps us to efficiently co-create the data, information, knowledge, and policies of the European Environment Agency as well as the European Union as a whole.