Meteorological hazards, especially flooding, cause the loss of lives and the destruction building and infrastructure. This demands for improving forecasts and timely warnings of such hazards in order to protect lives and properties. The project general objectives are the prevention of geo-hydrological natural disaster at regional, national and trans-national level forced by meteorological situation and the design and implementation of regional, national and trans-national programmes for geo-hydrological hazards assessment and risk management. The projects main activities will focus on the: - definition of methodologies, models and data set; - definition of common guidelines for risk prevention and management; - design and development of data communication system and archiving system; - implementation of the operational prototypes over selected target areas; - deployment of facility to end-user. The goal of RISK AWARE is to enlarge the spectrum and quality of meteorological information up to the short range (0-24 hours) in order to support users in hydrology, geology, civil protection and related areas whose actions are dependent on timely information about severe meteorological events evolving on short time scale and local hydro geological conditions. Expected Results: The results of the project are: - Compilation of a database including meteo-geo-hydro data, - Development of a data broadcasting system, - Development of a data visualisation system, - Scientific publications and reports, - Methodologies to improve the description of weather conditions at different time spans up to two days in advance, - Methodologies to relate weather conditions to ground effects, - Software tools to integrate the different components of the system in a unique framework, - Regional and national meetings to exchange information with local, regional, national authorities, institutions and end users, - Guidelines documents, pilot actions and civil protection plans.