Workshop in Trento, Italy, on 3rd & 4th of October 2011

The next workshop of the project Danube Floodrisk will be held in Trento on 3 and 4 October 2011 and is adressing the theme “Methodologies and best practices for the participation of the stakeholders involved in flood risk prevention”.

The event is organized by the Adige River Basin Authority and the Autonomous Province of Trento which collaborate together with other structures responsible for flood risk in the area.

The seminar intends to transfer to the Danube Floodrisk project’s partners the experience, knowledge and tools for the information and involvement of users of products and services developed by the institutions responsible for flood risk management in the Adriatic and Danubian area.

The two-day conference will provide a first session dedicated to the outcome of the Third International Conference „Water in the Alps“ and to the initiatives of the Conference of the Alps addressing issues relating to the project.

Participation to the seminar is by invitation. The participation is confirmed by filling the form available on ISPRA website. The event agenda is also available for download.

Project coordination meeting Belgrade, Thursday, 07th July 2011

A project coordination meeting was held in Belgrade onThursday, 07th July 201 with the IPA Partners.
The goal of the meeting was the clarification of state of project implementation, project and financial management issues as well as reporting details.

Diploma of Excellence for the Danube FLOODRISK Project

“We are very pleased to inform you of the announcement of wining Diploma of Excellence for the Danube FLOODRISK Project, coordinated by the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Forests in Romania, and currently implemented in the Danube River Basin. The Diploma of Excellence was awarded for the Black Sea Danubian Social & Economic Innovator, organised under the High Patronage of the Chairmanship of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and the aegis of DG MARE – European Commission. Our congratulations to the ICPDR Secretariat and all our project partners! Dr. MJ Adler Project Manager”

02-03 March 2011, Bratislava, General Meeting & Steering Committee

Meeting of the Partners under the project “Stakeholder Oriented Flood Risk Assessment for the Danube Floodplains” within the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Program (SEE Program) for the period 2007 – 2013. [filebase:filelist:cat=11:tpl=simple]

20-21  January 2011 Bucharest, Romania, International workshop on data availability and first quality check within DANUBE FLOODRISK project

Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Developoment , Tulcea, Romania, coordinates the data collection activity: hypsometric, hydrological and socio-economic for realizing hazard and risk maps along the Danube. In the context described, specialists from the Institute will organize an international workshop with the following themes: •    Availability check and first quality check; the first activities are to set up a complete list of available data and to discover the conditions of access (rights, costs). The availability check includes an assessment of data quality compared with the defined requirements; accessible data that fulfil the requirements will be used for test data sets to perform quality test as defined in WP 3. •    Acquisition of additional and missing data; for areas where no data are available, data will be acquired (within available budget), including supporting actions (flight permissions, provision of ground data) and checks of results. Special focus is on data for inundation calculation (terrain data, batimetry information) and damage calculation (land use, statistics, damage functions). Costs for data collection depend on the dimension of flooded areas, of the length of the river sector crossing should be monitored by each partner, the hydraulic works and solutions adopted by partners. •    Set up of a common data base: to have a common approach data handling should be organized from a central point. Based on the definitions all data are made accessible to all partners depending on the needs. Also all relevant meta data need to be available. If some of the data are not distributable the relevant data description, coverage of the data and some sample data should be available