The Funcional Center

The Aosta Valley Functional Center

WE ARE CIVIL PROTECTION

We are a Civil Protection service and our tasks are mainly the weather forecast and the production of alert bulletins for landslides, floods, and avalanche in the Aosta Valley region. Moreover, we manage around 100 weather stations displaced around the region and we coordinate specific studies to assess the natural risks in the region, together with planning activity for the civil protection.

Weather forecasts, alert bulletins, data and climate studies are made available to the public and, suitably reworked, also to regional services for various purposes: tourism, agriculture, hydroelectric production, etc.

The Functional Center is, however, even before that, a group of people with diverse skills: geologists, environmental engineers, computer engineers, mathematicians, physicists, sharing knowledge and skills, and investigating, for operational purposes, the complex world of meteorology and the natural risks.

Brochure Centro Funzionale

Our new logo

OUR COULOUR WERE CHOSEN ACCORDING TO THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT

A new logo that tells the story of our land and our sky.

Green like our pastures and valleys
Silver like our snow-capped peaks
Brown like the roots of our trees
Blue like our rivers and streams
Yellow like the sun that shines all year round in Aosta Valley
Red like our passion and our scientific commitment to weather forecasting and natural risks: for the safety of people, the territory and the environment.

The Functional Center in the national system

A NETWORK FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE TERRITORY AND THE SAFETY OF CITIZENS

The system of Functional Centers in Italy was conceived following the tragic events of Sarno, in 1998, when 161 people died due to mudslides and debris flows. The dramatic flood events of 2000 in Aosta Valley, which is well rooted in the memory of the people, gave an impulse to a series of activities that converged, among others, in the birth of the Regional Functional Center.

In 2009, the National Civil Protection Department officially created the formal institution of the Aosta Valley Functional Center, which was already operating since 2001. From that moment the Functional Center had the right to carry out the alert activity independently, which was until that date subject to National Directives.

Every day, The Central Functional Center received the bulletins from the Regional Functional Centers and mosaic them, in order to build a shared framework at the level of existing or planned critical issues and support, where necessary, the regions in the management of emergencies.