SIMONA Sediment-quality Information, Monitoring and Assessment System to support transnational cooperation for joint Danube Basin water management
The Joint Danube Surveys characterized sediment quality in the Danube several years ago and concluded that contaminated sediment was an existing problem in the Danube River Basin (DRB), the DTP Countries did not have enough institutional capacity (information, guidelines and methods) to build transnational sediment monitoring network for HS trend assessment.
Sava river spring Dolinka (Photo: Jasminka Alijagić)
The SIMONA partnership has 17 full partners (11 ERDF, 4 IPA, and 2 ENI) and 13 associated partners (ASPs), which is a balanced and strong representation of almost the whole Danube River Basin.
The main objective of SIMONA is to respond to the current demand for effective and comparable measurements and assessments of sediment quality in surface waters in the DRB by delivering a ready-to-deploy Sediment-quality Information, Monitoring and Assessment System to support transnational cooperation for joint DRB water management.
Sava river spring Dolinka (Photo: Jasminka Alijagić)
The main result of SIMONA
will be the improved, harmonized and coordinated sediment quality monitoring of water body status in the Danube River Basin. Together with experts trained in sediment quality management by SIMONA, the project will also generate international cooperation between stakeholders concerning the monitoring of HSs concentration in water, in sediments, and in biota. The immediate and middle term benefit of the project will be a transparent method supported by the SIMONA-tool for sediment quality monitoring that will encourage cooperation in transnational water management.
The project is the long-needed and timely response to the pressing demand for the effective use of sediment quality assessment for the next RBMPs due in 2021.
- Start date
- 01-06-2018
- End date
- 30-11-2021
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 1,835,150.74
- ERDF Contribution: 1,313,714.37
- IPA Contribution: 192,418.75
- ENI Contribution: 53,744.97
- Call number
- Call 2
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Strengthen transnational water management and flood risk prevention
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| Deliverable T.4.2.2 Case study supporting the operation of the hydropower plant from sediment quality point of view | 22-04-2022 08:03:45 | |
| Output T1.4 DRB baseline network for HSs sediment monitoring | 04-02-2022 09:53:35 | |
| Output T6.2 Small group interactive training and workshop events.... | 04-01-2022 13:44:02 | |
| Output T5.3 30 experts trained at 3. SIMONA training event | 04-01-2022 13:41:33 | |
| Output T5.2 30 experts trained at 2. SIMONA training event | 04-01-2022 13:40:00 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geological survey of Slovenia | Lead partner | meta.dobnikar@geo-zs.si | SLOVENIA |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | ERDF partner | edith.haslinger@ait.ac.at | AUSTRIA |
| Geological Survey of Austria | ERDF partner | Sebastian.Pfleiderer@geologie.ac.at | AUSTRIA |
| Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | ERDF partner | peytcheva@erdw.ethz.ch | BULGARIA |
| Szent István University | ERDF partner | gyozo.jordan@gmail.com | HUNGARY |
Project News
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SIMONA - SAMPLING KIT DELIVERY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- 27-10-2022
SIMONA Standard Sediment Quality Sampling Kit was delivered to the Public Institution Waters, Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in October 2022. The Certificate for the Sampling Kit delivery shown by Aleksandra Kovačević, senior associate...
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SIMONA - Standard Sediment Quality Monitoring Sampling Kit is already in use!
- 24-10-2022
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), Brno branch, has reported the successful application of the SIMONA Sampling Kit 'Suspended Sediment Barrel System' (pump and water tank system) in their routine sampling campaign, together with the...
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SIMONA - SAMPLING KIT DELIVERY IN CZECH
- 23-09-2022
SIMONA Standard Sediment Quality Sampling Kit: delivered to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute in Brno, 02 September 2022. Handing over the Certificate for the Sampling Kit delivery to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute,...
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SIMONA - SAMPLING KIT DELIVERY IN MOLDOVA
- 13-09-2022
SIMONA Standard Sediment Quality Sampling Kit: delivered to the Institute of Chemistry, Chișinău, Moldova, 11 September 2022. Delivering the Sampling Kit to the Institute of Chemistry, Chișinău. Oleg Bogdevich (Head of the Laboratory of...
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SIMONA - SAMPLING KIT DELIVERY IN CROATIA
- 13-09-2022
SIMONA Standard Sediment Quality Sampling Kit: delivered to the Croatian Waters in Zagreb, 30 August 2022. Handing over the Certificate for the Sampling Kit delivery to the Croatian Waters, Zagreb. Neven Bujas (Senior Engineer...
