Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)
2017 / 3. szám - MANAGING WATER QUALITY (ONGOING PROJECTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES) - Baranya Sándor - Józsa János - Kéri Barbara - Bakonyi Péter - Habersack, Helmut - Haimann, Mariene - Holubova, Katarina - Lukac, Miroslav - Tuchiu, Elena - Vartolomei, Florin - Aussendorf, Michael: Danube Sediment Management Restoration of the Sediment Balance in the Danube River (további szerző: Christoph Maier)
44 Hidrológiai Közlöny (Hungarian Journal of Hydrology) 2017. 97. évf. 3. sz. Sediment Management Guidance, the results will be basins in Europe and globally via a direct link to the transferable to tributaries of the Danube River, other river UNESCO World's Large Rivers Initiative. INFO BOX: Number of partners: 28 (14 project partners and 4 associated strategic partners). Project Budget: 2,254,126.80 € Project Duration: 30 months, from January 2017 till June 2019. Project Lead Partner: Budapest University of Technology and Economics Project Manager: Ms Barbara Kéri Contact Details: keri.barbara@epito.bme.hu , +3614631709 Funded by: INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme - European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) Official website of the project: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/danubesediment PROJECT CONSORTIUM AND TARGET GROUPS 14 project partners (LP+11 ERDF + 2 IPA) and 14 ASPs are going to work together in the DanubeSediment project from the following countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania. The LP (Lead Partner) has significant experience in managing large EU projects and has long been dealing with managing sediment related problems. Together with the LP, there are eight academic partners, all having major experiences in international cooperation and competence in sediment management, who provide the professional basis performing data collection, analysis, case studies and will prepare the main outputs of the project. There are five project partners and two asps from the water management sector, who ensure the practical implementation of the project and the permanent interaction with stakeholders. Moreover, ministries of Austria, Hungary and Romania represent policy makers, which, together with ICPDR (as ASP) play a relevant role in the implementation of the water framework directive, the floods directive and the EU strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). The most relevant beneficiaries of sediment management, stakeholders such as inland navigation, hydropower companies and na- ture/environment protection agencies are also involved. Transferability of all the project results will be ensured by the involvement of international organizations, such as the ICPDR. Besides all countries with significant reaches of the Danube River, two Slovenian institutes participate in the project in order to bring in and integrate good practices based on their recent experiences in sediment management connected to the Slovenian part of the Sava River. The most important target groups are policy makers, water management authorities responsible for water and sediment management, navigation companies, hydro- power companies, environmental agencies, higher education and research, the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), the Danube Commission (DC).Many of these beneficiaries are directly involved in the project implementation either as PPs or as ASPs ensuring the durability and sustainability of the project results. Other relevant target groups (even from other territories) will be reached in the frame of the three International Stakeholder Workshops, to be organized during the project implementation, to ensure the knowledge transfer by training 100 experts that will continue the project implementation in their daily work. SYNERGIES WITH OTHER INTERREG PROJECTS The project integrates results from several recently implemented projects. One of the most relevant ones, the “SEDDON” project was carried out in the frame of the Austria- Hungary CBC 2007-2013 program. Within SEDDON, a common sediment monitoring methodology and joint sediment measurement protocols were developed. The main results of SEDDON will be integrated in WP3 to support sediment data collection and to develop good practices for sediment monitoring. The project integrates the results from the “Joint Danube Survey 3” project which focused on the longitudinal survey of the Danube River and the major tributaries including hydromorphology survey. Outcomes of JDS3 will be used for WP3 to support sediment data collections and for WP4 for the assessment of longterm morphological development of the River Danube. The “DuReFlood” project (Hungary-Slovakia CBC 2007- 2013 program) focused on the improvement of flood protection in the Slovakian-Hungarian section of the Danube (Sap-Szob). The collected sediment data and other data relevant to the Danube sediment balance can be integrated in WP3 and WP4 of this project. „Waterway forward” and “NEWADA” with “NEWADA DUO” projects aimed the improvement of the multifunctional waterway usage. Both projects brought the corresponding stakeholders together and formed strong cooperation on regional and intema- tional/catchment level. The DanubeSediment project can benefit from the continuation of the former intersectoral discussions (WP2, WP6), and incorporation of the identified gaps and synergies from the project outcomes (WP5). “FAIRway Danube” is a parallel running pilot project and it can support Danube Sediment with survey results and sediment samples’ analyses results. The project “SEE River” was developed within the SEE TC Programme. The main results and achievements of the SEE River project: SEE River Toolkit for Facilitating Cross-Sectoral River Corridor Management will be extrapolated and used in this project, in development of WP5.The project “SEE HYDROPOWER” was also developed in the frame of the SEE TC Programme (EU), aiming to a sustainable exploitation of water concerning hydropower production in SEE countries. One of the outcomes of the project was a common methodological approach for optimal management operations in sediment field. The developed approach will be incorporated in the topic of WP5 where good examples of sediment management techniques will be analysed. The
