The final conference of the RainBO Life project was held on June 7th in the Renaissance Room of the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna, after three years of intense planning, development and meetings with all the interested parties: the municipalities for which the project was designed, but also the Civil Protection, consortia operating in decontamination, Associations and private companies.

The event was an opportunity to illustrate the main features of the software platform resulting from the project, which involves an innovative integration of spatial and environmental data, the calculation of vulnerability maps and hydraulic risk, the availability of thousands of data from environmental sensors monitoring the territory, the use of forecasting simulation models and the development of an artificial intelligence, capable of processing all available data and to provide support to increase the resilience of urban centers against extreme precipitation phenomena. The main strengths of the platform consist in the webGIS technology with which it was developed, allowing access from any PC; its modularity, allowing the expandability of functions; its configurability that is the prerequisite for replicability; and the development of standard interfaces, allowing the use of features and services developed by third party platforms. 

The meeting was also a useful moment to share the actions necessary for the continuation of the project, concerning for example, the collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna for the evolution of vulnerability maps for the purposes of urban planning; the start of the platform experimentation by seven municipalities; the drafting of a catalog of services available to municipalities, which - being already equipped with their own GIS platform - are only interested in the services provided.