On August 2, 2020 Igor Tsependa – PIMReC Project Coordinator, Rector of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Volodymyr Chernetskyy – Head of the Department of State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region made a site visit to the Observatory building and conducted inspection meeting.

Cooperation Agreement between the partners of PIMReC project, i.e. Vasyl Stefanyk
Precarpathian National University and the Department of the State Emergency Service of
Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region, was signed for the following five-year period. The
document, foreseeing improvement of the safety system in the Carpathians on basis of the
former observatory, located on Pip Ivan mountain, was signed by the rector of the
University – Igor Tsependa and the Head of the Department of the State Emergency
Service of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region – Volodymyr Chernetskyi.

On April 25, 2020 during the meeting in the observatory building the final plan of construction works for this year (2020) has been discussed and settled by the partners of the project «Adaptation of former observatory on the Pip Ivan mountain to the needs of alpine rescue service training center» (PIMReC) implemented with the financial support of the European Union within the Cross-border Cooperation Program Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020.
Igor Tsependa- PIMReC Project Coordinator, Rector of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Yaroslav Shynkaruk -Head of PIMReC Infrastructure Group, Vice-Rector of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Taras Brynda – Head of the 4th Specialized Rescue Team of the Department of State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region and constructors inspected the site and held a meeting devoted to the detailed plan of building works for 2020 in the Observatory building.

On April 15th, a considerable (3) level of avalanche risk is stayed in mountainous areas of Ivano-Frankivsk region.