The EPOT Project This special issue of “Quaderni di Geofisica” collects proceedings from the Second Year Workshop of the Coordinated Project “Technological innovation and automation in the integrated applications of electromagnetic and potential field methods in active volcanic areas” (EPOT) organized at Catania on December 13, 2002. The EPOT project was supported by Dipartimento di Protezione Civile in the frame of the GNV Programme 2000-2003 of the INGV. This research began as a joint project between Research Institutes and Universities with the aim of improving the investigative capability of electromagnetic and potential field methods in their various possible applications in active volcanic areas. Progress achieved in the geophysics of volcanoes over the past few decades, and the...