Danube Floodplain Reducing the flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributaries

Communication Work Package leader WWF Hungary has prepared a short animation film to introduce the project to the general public (D 2.2.4). The animation film introduces how the floodplains of the Danube and its tributaries altered in the past,...

Slovenian Water Agency, in cooperation with the Municipality of Kostanjevica na Krki, organized an Online Stakeholder Workshop on scenarios for flood risk reduction in the pilot area Kostanjevica na Krki on 2nd of October 2020. More than 30...

A stakeholder meeting was held on 26 October 2020 in Bistreț, (Romania) organized by the WWF Romania. The concept and results of this workshop is contributing to the technical solutions for floodplain restoration in Bistreț (part of feasibility...

On 16 October 2020 the 2nd National event in Serbia was organised aiming at presenting the Danube Floodplain Project results gathered so far. The event included the Ecosystem Services workshop addressing the follow-up of the first ESS setup given...

The Danube Floodplain International Stakeholder Meeting took place on 15-16 October 2020 in online format from Munich (Germany) and was organized by the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management (Prof. Disse) of the Technical University of...

A stakeholder meeting was held on 10 September 2020 in Szolnok, (Hungary) jointly organized by the Central Tisza Region Water Directorate and the University of Szeged, Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics. During the meeting, the...

The Danube Floodplain GIS is a spatial database storing all results of the Danube Floodplain project. Via a public web-based interface, the data will be available in the form of interactive maps. The results of the Floodplain Evaluation Matrix...

The Second Year Review and Steering Committee meeting took place on 9-10 June 2019, this time on Zoom, due to the emergency situation caused by Covid-19. Similarly to last year, it was a joint event that focused on the progress of the activities,...

The Danube Floodplain project factsheet is now available on the project’s sub-website in multiple languages. The leaflet which contains basic information about the Danube Floodplain is now available here in all the official languages of the...

Every year we celebrate World Wetlands Day on 2nd February to raise global awareness about the vital role of wetlands for people and our planet. Wetlands have dramatically been altered by people and their ecosystems are highly affected by climate...

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Information on the overall progress of the implementation of the project activities in 2019 was presented at the session of the Basin Council at the Danube River Basin Directorate (DRBD) on December 12th 2019 in Pleven, Bulgaria. According to the...

On 19 - 20 November 2019, the Annual Scientific Conference of the National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management (NIHWM) took place in Bucharest with the theme: “Hydrology and water management - from tradition to interdisciplinary...

Danube Floodplain in Romania has suffered a lot over the last few decades because of the climate change but also because of the dams construction. This fact created disruptions in longitudinal and lateral connectivity, changes in the land use and...

The Danube Day, the celebration of the Danube Basin countries is on the 29th of June each year. On this day we jointly commemorate one of Europe's greatest river systems and the people and wildlife that rely on it. The Danube Floodplain project...

The First Year Review and Steering Committee meeting took place on 5-6 June 2019 in Bucharest, Romania and it was a joint event that focused on the progress of the activities, their timely implementation and the related spent and validated costs,...

Wetlands represent one of the most economically valuable and among the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. But they are disappearing three times faster than forests. The warning appears in Ramsar Convention on Wetlands last report. According...

The Danube River Basin Directorate as a partner in the project "Reducing the flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributaries" organized the national kick-off event on January 23, 2019 in the town of Pleven,...

The first expert meeting of Work Package 3 (WP3) took place on 10th-11th January 2019 in Szeged, Hungary. Experts from 10 countries sharing the Danube River Basin met to discuss the actual issues of the WP related to floodplain evaluation. The...

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...