LARAM School: An Ongoing Experience

LARAM is an International School on “LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation”, born in 2005 as a pioneering didactic and research initiative of the Geotechnical Engineering Group of the University of Salerno. The main activity of LARAM is a yearly 2-week School for Ph.D. students and Young Doctors. Other initiatives include shorter courses, scientific sessions and workshops, research projects and other dissemination activities. This paper discusses the inspiration, the foundations and the main pillars of the School, and provides a brief overview of the main activities developed since 2006.