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

Danube Floodplain Winter Online School was successfully held between 15 and 19 November. The multi-layered programme covered the topics of the scientific methods developed in the Interreg Danube Floodplain project, and the working practices in...

Floodplain restoration should be based on scientific evidence. Danube Floodplain Geographical Information System (Danube Floodplain GIS) has been developed within the Danube Floodplain project and examined active and potential floodplain...

Bucharest, 4 November 2021 - The Danube Floodplain project which was launched to examine how to reduce flood risk with the restoration of floodplains in the Danube River Basin comes to an end this November. The project partners presented the...

Within the Danube Floodplain project two important meetings took place in September, the Experts Training Meeting in 21-22 September and the second International Stakeholder Meeting in 22-23 September. Due to the actual pandemic covid-19 event...

Within the Danube Floodplain project two important meetings took place in September, the Experts Training Meeting in 21-22 September and the second International Stakeholder Meeting in 22-23 September. Due to the actual pandemic covid-19 event...

The 2nd stakeholder meeting was organized in two parts in Hungary by WWF Hungary and KÖTIVIZIG. The first part was organized for farmers on 5 October, while the second part aimed authorities and regional asset managers on 14 October. The results...

Danube Floodplain Online Winter School takes place on 15-19 November 2021. Register till 31 October by completing the form available here. Danube Floodplain Online Winter School provides a multi-layered programme that aims to bridge...

The 2nd Danube Floodplain (Online) Webinar was successfully held on 7 October 2021 with over 50 participants who actively engaged with questions and comments to the discussion. First, Prof. Zoran Vojinovic from UNESCO IHE (Institute for...

30 September marks the day of the release of the new Danube Floodplain Online Course. 100% free and accessible to everyone, a new Danube Floodplain Online Course is an incredible opportunity to help you better understand the whole...

Floodplain restoration measures are among the most well-known nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction but practitioners see their limitations in comparison to technical measures when considering both their effectiveness and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

22 March is World Water Day! Water is essential to life on Earth, but we often overlook just how fragile our relationship with water can be. More than 2 billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress and 700 million people...

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...