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 - How floodplains can be restored and managed? - 1st Danube Floodplain Webinar
- 05-07-2021
The 1st Danube Floodplain (Online) Webinar was successfully held on 28 June 2021 with over 40 participants who actively participated with questions and comments to the discussion. In his opening presentation Prof. Helmut Habersack from BOKU...
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Danube Floodplain - Online Course - Registration is open!
- 01-07-2021
Bringing rivers back to their natural path is a solution that can tackle multiple water, biodiversity and land management challenges. Interreg Danube Floodplain project shows how these challenges can be mitigated. Join our Danube Floodplain...
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Danube Floodplain - Press Trip to the Hungarian project area, Fokorúpuszta
- 24-06-2021
KÖTIVIZIG together with WWF Hungary organized a press trip on 22 June to the Hungarian pilot area, Fokorúpuszta by the River Tisza, near Szolnok. Local and national media participated together with local authority...
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Danube Floodplain - 1st Danube Floodplain Webinar - Floodplains under pressure : a natural system to preserve and restore
- 17-06-2021
Floodplains are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an essential role in the self-purification of the river and the groundwater recharge. Floodplains are natural habitat for many endangered species. They...
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Danube Floodplain - Press trip in Romanian pilot area, Bistret
- 14-05-2021
WWF Romania, together with NARW and MoEnv, organized a press trip on 13 May 2021 in the Romanian pilot area of Danube Floodplain project, Bistret (Dolj county). 5 journalists from local and national press organizations joined the event, together...
