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Recommendations approved by the EAWS General Assembly in Davos in 2022 During the past five years an international working group […]

The 21th Conference of the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) takes place in Davos from 15th – 17th June 2022.

The first online conference of the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) took place from 15th – 16th June 2021.

The 20th Conference of the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) takes place in Oslo from 12th – 14th June 2019.

The ISSW is the world’s largest conference on snow and avalanches and will be hosted in Austria from October 7 to 12, 2018.

EAWS introduce a standard for typical avalanche problems and changes the names of avalanche sizes and the wording of the European avalanche danger scale.

EAWS prevents the loss of lives and damages due to avalanches. Mission The primary purpose of European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) is to support its Members in preventing the loss of lives and damages due to avalanches by providing the society with efficient and effective avalanche forecasting and warning services.

The TAB meeting discussed the plans for the working the Working Groups, as well as other TAB issues. Also the matters of avalanche problems, communication and new avalanche size scale were discussed.

The 19th Conference of the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) was held in Tutzing from 12th – 15th June 2017.

The TAB consists of several working groups tackling the topics given to the TAB by the General Assembly (GA) of EAWS. The goal is to prepare as efficiently as possible the decisions to be made by the forthcoming General Assembly to be held in Munich in mid-2017.