On December 16^th a researcher at the CNR IRPI participated in Innsbruck in the fifth meeting of r.avaflow project. r.avaflow is a transnational research project supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which is the lead agency, and the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) in the period 2014 – 2017. r.avaflow aims at creating a free software supporting experts in managing hazards from geophysical mass flows such as avalanches of snow or rock, or flows of debris or mud. CNR IRPI collaborates with r.avaflow project on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, which manages the debris-flow monitoring station of the Gadria catchment.