To ensure the full implementation of the DANUBE FLOODRISK project a partner from Italy and observer partners from Germany are involved. In addition, the “observer partners” from Germany provide experience from Rhine and Elbe as well as the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), which ensures coherence across the whole Danube river basin, and respectively to make use of the necessary platform for implementing the project and disseminate the results. The Joint Research Center (European Commission) will highly contribute to the definition of a joint approach.

LfU – Bavarian Environmental Agency
Dieter    Rieger
“UBA-BY is interested in participation at the methodology debate and models will be applied to unify at the Danube Basin level, for preparing further integrated flood risk maps, consistent at the basin level.
Germany is part of the Danube Basin and is an important actor at the ICPDR. German flood risk maps will be included in the next report will be delivered in concordance with the Flood Directive requirements. Planning unified methods and common standards in providing such reports, as well as planning flood protection strategy and action plans integrated at the basin level are objectives of the highest priority at the Danube River basin.

RPT BWL – Regional Council Tübingen
Joachim    Eberlein
Andreas    Stegmaier
“RPT BWLis interested in participation at the methodology debate and models will be applied to unify at the Danube Basin level, for preparing further integrated flood risk maps, consistent at the basin level.
Germany is part of the Danube Basin and is an important actor at the ICPDR. German flood risk maps will be included in the next report will be delivered in concordance with the Flood Directive requirements. Planning unified methods and common standards in providing such reports, as well as planning flood protection strategy and action plans integrated at the basin level are objectives of the highest priority at the Danube River basin.

JRC European Commission – DG Joint Research Center
Guido     Schmuck
Ad de Roo
“The JRC will contribute to the flood risk mapping methodologies debate and further with methodologies and models at the Danube Basin level, for preparing further integrated flood risk maps, consistent at the basin level.
Pan-European flood hazard and risk mapping is one of the key tasks of the flood research at the JRC. Sharing experiences and knowledge on cross-border flood mapping in the large Danube river basin will be of mutual benefit to the JRS and the other project partners. For The JRC the benefits will be feedback on the JRC products as well as learning from Danube countries mapping experiences.

ICPDR International Comission for the Protection of the Danube River
Contact person and legal representative: Philip Weller

The ICPDR will provide the platform of the ICPDR Expert Groups to implement the EU Directives, e.g. WFD (in particular the development of the Joint Program of Measures for the Danube River Basin District management Plan), and the European Floods Directive (especially on ensuring the common approach on the Danube River Basin level in flood risk mapping).
For the ICPDR it is of a high relevance to strengthen the current transnational cooperation based on the Danube River Protection Convention, as well as on the European policy. This cooperation has many dimensions, including political, social economical, and technical, but also legal and institutional.
From the technical point, the DANUBE FLOODRISK project will substantially contribute to the implementation of the ICPDR Action Program on Sustainable Flood Protection in the Danube River Basin, which was adopted at the Ministerial Conference by all Contracting Parties to the ICPDR.

BfG Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde
Michael    Behrendt
Thomas    Maurer
The BfG is the scientific institution ranking as a supreme federal agency, responsible for the German waterways in federal ownership. The BfG has major experience with international mapping projects and cooperation in International Commissions for the Protection of Rivers. It further provided major contribution to the development of the Rhine Atlas and Elbe Atlas. As an observer partner the BfG kindly provides scientific advisory service for the DANUBE FLOODRISK partnership. Especially in the working packages and working groups dealing with harmonization of requirements, data and methods the BfG will contribute input and know-how transfer. The headwaters of the Danube River are located in Germany. Germany is member of the International Commission of the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) and as such interested in the implementation of the ICPDR action Program on Sustainable Flood Protection which in turn is a valuable contribution to the implementation of the EC Flood Risk Management Directive. Germany through the BfG, wishes to contribute with is considerable know-how and good collaboration-link with the German Federal States Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.