The MED-SUV project is a response to the European Community call “ENV.2012.6.4-2 - Long-term monitoring experiments in geologically active regions of Europe prone to natural hazards: the Supersite concept - FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage – of 20 July 2011. Among the requests, the call stated that the accepted projects had to contribute to the Geohazards Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL) initiative. The GSNL is an ambitious initiative, which is based on the “Frascati declaration” stated at the conclusion of the “3rd International Geohazards Workshop” of GEO held in ESA-ESRIN in November 2007. The declaration recommended “…to stimulate an international and intergovernmental effort to monitor and study selected reference sites by establishing open access to relevant datasets according to...