coop MDD Transboundary Management Programme for the planned 5-country Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube”

Local action plans were developed by eight project partners as means of implementing the Guidelines focused on one or more selected topics. These topics were chosen based on the interest and responsibility of their respective institutions. The...

One of the main achievements of the coop MDD project was the establishment of a network of RIVER’SCOOLs. It was a long process, but through enthusiastic and dedicated work by our project, all eight RIVER’SCOOLs in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia,...

BAD RADKERSBURG, AUSTRIA – Last week, from 27th to 28th June, the final coop MDD project conference was held. All project partners and more than 100 representatives from other institutions, organizations and projects gathered in Bad Radkersburg...

MURECK, AUSTRIA – From 6th to 7th May 2019 in Mureck, Austria, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, in cooperation with the Land Steiermark, Department 14, Water Management, Resources and Sustainability, and the...

BAD RADKERSBURG, AUSTRIA – We are happy to announce the Mura-Drava-Danube conference that will be held on the 28th June 2019 in Bad Radkersburg, Austria. As our project is nearing its completion, the conference will also be the final event of the...

MURSKA SOBOTA, SLOVENIA – In December 2018 the final workshop in the series titled “Action Plan for Habitat Restoration in Natura 2000 Site Mura” was organised by the Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation (IRSNC) at the...

ČAĐAVICA, CROATIA – First RIVER'SCOOLs was opened recently. RIVER'SCOOL Drava Story is a place where children can learn about river ecosystems with special emphasis on endangered fish species. It is the first RIVER’SCOOL in the planned network...

VELIKA POLANA, SLOVENIA - On 23rd January, the pentalateral Ministerial Coordination Board (CB) for the establishment of the 5-country Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube” held a meeting, after an invitation by the Slovenian Ministry for the...

VELIKA POLANA, SLOVENIA – On Tuesday, 22nd January 2019, 16 Slovenian municipalities were awarded the UNESCO Certificate for the Mura Biosphere Reserve. Slovenian Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning Jure Leben presented the...

On 14th November an excursion to a part of Steirische Murauen (Gosdorf) was organized. Apart from our project partners from the Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung, the fieldtrip participants included representatives from the local tourism...

Water Management and Protected Area Authorities from four countries gathered last Thursday (22nd November) in Lendava, Slovenia, to discuss the sediment management and restoration options for the Mura River in its free-flowing stretch. This river...

On 22nd October 2018, within the framework of the coop MDD project, a workshop titled "Activities and measures for the protection of species and habitats with a goal of improving their status - the role of the local population in the protection...

In a truly collaborative manner, coop MDD project joined Amazon of Europe Bike Trail project in organizing a partner meeting and a special kick-off event in Velika Polana, Slovenia. From 8th to 11th November 2018, project partners gathered in...

The 2018 edition of the Great Rivers Forum was held from 28-30 October at the Changjiang Civilization Museum in Wuhan where coop MDD project was presented in front of more than 150 participants from 28 countries and 18.000 people online. The...

In a spirit of open collaboration, coop MDD and Amazon of Europe Bike Trail projects joined together to organize an event for municipalities and local producers on a transboundary level from 9th to 10th November 2018 in Velika Polana, Slovenia....

Last week, from 1st to 4th October 2018, coop MDD partners gathered in Keszthely, Hungary, for the 5th Steering Committee Meeting. After welcome addresses and a presentation from Zoltán Puskás, director of the Balaton-felvidéki National Park,...

Coop MDD project partners marked the International Drava River Day from 20th to 23rd September 2018. For that occasion, they prepared a series of public events where they also presented our efforts in supporting the future five-country...

On 19th September 2018, a kick-off event and a stakeholder workshop for the REFOCuS – Resilient Riparian Forests as Ecological Corridors in the Mura-Drava-Danube project was held in Moravske Toplice, Slovenia. The REFOCuS project focuses on...

On 25th July in Palembang (Indonesia) during their yearly conference, UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programme officially approved 29,000 hectares of valuable floodplain area along the Slovenian Mura as a Biosphere Reserve. A true reason to...

All across Europe, at the same time - on Sunday 8 July, thousands of people were jumping into rivers and lakes to show their love for the continent's waterways and desire to protect them. In the scope of coop MMD project, Big jump into Mura river...