Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)
2017 / 3. szám - MANAGING WATER QUALITY (ONGOING PROJECTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES) - Kocsis-Kupper Zsuzsanna: Capitalization within Thematic Pole 4 Water Management
Zsuzsanna Kocsis-Kupper: Capitalization within Thematic Pole 4 Water Management 35 THEMATIC POLE WATER MANAGEMENT Four DTP projects were identified by the JS originally in January 2017 to cooperate in the capitalization framework of DTP Thematic Pole 4 in connection to Water Management (Thematic Pole Water Management). While the projects address different issues like steering land use to safeguard water resources and reduce flood risk; coordinating sediment man agement along the Danube river; developing an integrated river basin and flood risk management plan for the Tisza River Basin; improving drought monitoring, management and emergency response in the Danube Region; they seek for synergies for the common benefit (Interreg-Danube). The DTP projects involved in the DTP Thematic Pole 4 - Water Management are the following: 1. CAMARO-D - Cooperating towards advanced management routines for land use impacts on the water regime in the Danube River Basin (http4) .iiierr«;^ KU Danube Transnational Programme CAMARO-D 2. DANUBESEDIMENT - Danube Sediment Management - Restoration of the Sediment Balance in the Danube River (http5) r Interreg ■ Danube Transnational Programme DanubeSediment 3. DRIDANUBE - Drought risk in the Danube Region (httpó) mierrev, H Danube Transnational Programme DriDanube 4. JOINTISZA - Strengthening cooperation between river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance the status of waters of the Tisza River Basin (httpT) 1 Interreg H Danube Transnational Programme JOINTISZA Apart the above-mentioned DTP projects and the JS designated project officer, Mr Gusztáv Csömör, also two Priority Areas of the EUSDR take active part in the capitalization procedure: the coordination teams of Priority Area Water Quality (PA4) and Priority Area Environmental Risks (PA5). At the initial discussion at the referred Lead Partner Seminar in January 2017 the Pole members agreed that the Thematic Pole Water Management will be lead and coordinated by EUSDR PA4 Coordinator, Mr Balázs Horváth, from the Hungarian General Directorate of Water Management. In February 2017, the Thematic Pole Water Management agreed and adopted its document on capitalization, where identified its next steps towards capitalisation, its potential synergies and created its contact list. During spring 2017 the Thematic Pole Water Management further elaborated its Capitalisation Strategy, identified synergies, described its internal and external communication, listed its planned events for 2017, elaborated its peer review and established a Roadmap. The Thematic Pole Water Management Capitalization Strategy document is a working document that is regularly being reviewed and updated. During the 13th Steering Group (SG) Meeting of Priority Area Water Quality on 25-26 April 2017 in Bratislava, further projects were identified that are welcomed to take part of the capitalization: STREAM, DANUBEparksCON- NECTED, FramWat, DREAM, Sturgeon 2020, some of which are funded by different financial sources than DTP. Direct results of the DTP Capitalization Strategy are already visible: Thematic Pole Water Management projects invited each other to their own kick off events in March 2017; and all Pole projects were invited to the SG meetings of Priority Area Water Quality and Priority Area Environmental Risks. JOINT1SZA and DANUBESEDI- MENT held a joint event on Transnational Cooperation for Sustainable River Basin Management Conference on 11 April 2017 (Budapest, HU). All team members participated and jointly held an EUSDR PA4 and PA5 organized
