Danube Floodplain Reducing the flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributaries
During the last decades, Europe suffered major catastrophic floods along the Danube. Therefore the Flood Directive asks for adequate and coordinated measures to reduce flood risk without conflicting WFD objectives. The main objective of the project is improving transnational water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity conservation. The expected change is improved knowledge, among the countries located within Danube River Basin, related to integrative water management through restoration of floodplains, combination of classical and green infrastructure, natural retention measures, involving all related stakeholders.
The main activities of the project are: updating the floodplain areas inventory and their ranking using the Floodplain Evaluation Matrix-FEM; assessing, by using the pre-selected pilot areas, of the efficiency of floodplain projects in the Danube District and developing tools for increasing the knowledge and cooperation of experts, practitioners, decision makers and stakeholders on floodplain restoration.
The Project will develop tools contributing to DTP SO2.1:
1) The Danube basin wide floodplain restoration and preservation manual addressed mainly to practitioners;
2) A DRB Sustainable Floodplain management Strategic Guidance summarizing the key findings of the manual targeting a wider audience;
3) A DRB Roadmap comprising agreed next steps towards realizing floodplain projects.
The ICPDR which is the major platform for cooperation in flood risk management and river basin management in the DRB, through its experts will be supportive to this project in helping to achieve its goals and also in transferring the outputs. The main project target groups are ministries, river basin authorities, practitioners and stakeholders. The innovative character is given by the application of FEM by all Partner Countries and by developing a general evaluation tool for possible later assessment of floodplain restoration projects.
- Start date
- 01-06-2018
- End date
- 30-11-2020
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 3672655,88
- ERDF Contribution: 2899428,55
- IPA Contribution: 222328,9
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 2
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Strengthen transnational water management and flood risk prevention
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Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Administration ”Romanian Waters” | Lead partner | anemari.ciurea@rowater.ro | ROMANIA |
| University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna | ERDF partner | helmut.habersack@boku.ac.at | AUSTRIA |
| Danube River Basin Directorate | ERDF partner | rumeliya.petrova@bddr.org | BULGARIA |
| Croatian Waters - Legal entity for water management | ERDF partner | bojana.Horvat@voda.hr | CROATIA |
| Morava River Basin Authority | ERDF partner | vesely@pmo.cz | CZECH REPUBLIC |
Project News
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Danube Floodplain - Slovak and Czech Kick-off and Stakeholder Meeting for Pilot Area Morava, 31.01.2019
- 14-02-2019
On 31 January 2019, the German, Czech and Slovak partners of DANUBE FLOODPAIN project participated in a one-day stakeholder consultation meeting held back-to-back with an ecosystem services workshop. The event took place at the Research Institute...
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Danube Floodplain - National Kick-Off in Austria, 25.01.2019
- 12-02-2019
On the 25th of January the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences organized a national kick-off event for all Austrian stakeholders to inform them about the Danube Floodplain project. Different Stakeholders were presenting...
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Danube Floodplain - Hungarian kick-off and stakeholder meeting, 23.01.2019
- 11-02-2019
The Hungarian kick-off meeting of the Danube Floodplain project was held in Szolnok, on 23th January 2019. The main scope was to inform stakeholders about the ongoing activities of the project. Hungarian partners also wanted to gather knowledge...
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Danube Floodplain - National Kick-Off Meeting in Germany, 14.01.2019
- 06-02-2019
The national kick-off in Germany was held on the 14th of January 2019 at the floodplain institute of the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt located directly at the Danube River. All in all, 40 people from water management and nature...
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Danube Floodplain - Expert Meeting - Experts in hydraulic modelling, ecological modelling and stakeholders analysis decide on modelling strategies on December 18th/19th 2018 in Munich
- 28-01-2019
The Danube Floodplain project partners met one week before Christmas in Munich. It was a technical meeting of the experts involved in hydraulic and habitat modelling as well as in stakeholder engagement to reduce the flood risk in the Danube...
