DriDanube Drought Risk in the Danube Region
Water scarcity and droughts hit the Danube region frequently and have had large impacts on the economy and welfare of the people. Despite damages in last decades, drought is still not considered as an issue of high priority and people are not aware of its impacts.
The main objective of DriDanube project is to increase the capacity of the Danube region to manage drought related risks. The project aims at helping all stakeholders involved in drought management become more efficient during drought emergency response and prepare better for the next drought.
From reactive to proactive drought management
Currently the drought management is reactive, dealing mainly with losses and damages, cooperation between key actors is missing and formal legislation mostly does not exist. Proactive approach on the other hand counts on drought prevention, mitigation, vulnerability reduction, planning and preparedness. Focus hence shifts from recovery to protection, i.e. from crisis management to risk management.
Expected outcomes
One of the main products of the project will be Drought User Service, which will enable more accurate and efficient drought monitoring and timely early warning. The service will integrate all the available data, including large volume of the most recent remote sensing products.
DriDanube will harmonize the currently heterogeneous methodologies for risk and impact assessments, based on the existing achievements in participating countries and on EU guidelines in the frame of the Civil Protection Mechanism.
The current slow reactions during drought will be sped up with the improved decision-making process in all parts of the drought management cycle (monitoring–impact assessment–response–recovery–preparedness) which will strengthen capacities of the stakeholders (policy, professional, end users) at different levels. This will lead to an increased culture of preparedness throughout the Danube region.
DriDanube’s main expected result is improved drought emergency response and better cooperation among operational services and decision making authorities in a Danube region on national and regional level.
- Start date
- 01-01-2017
- End date
- 30-09-2019
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 1.974.750
- ERDF Contribution: 1.434.757,5
- IPA Contribution: 243.780
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 1
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Improve preparedness for environmental risk management
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| 4-Danube Drought Strategy | 21-04-2021 15:59:35 | |
| 4-Strategy_Summary for policy makers | 09-01-2020 22:26:24 | |
| 4-Annex A_Common report on the existing drought management status in the Danube region | 09-01-2020 22:25:08 | |
| 4-Annex B1_National stakeholders database | 09-01-2020 22:23:26 | |
| 4-Annex B2_Summary Report of the National Briefing Seminars | 09-01-2020 22:22:40 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovenian Environment Agency | Lead partner | andreja.susnik@gov.si | Slovenia |
| EODC Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring GmbH | ERDF partner | christian.briese@eodc.eu | Austria |
| Global Change Research Institute CAS | ERDF partner | mirek_trnka@yahoo.com | Czech Republic |
| Hungarian Meteorological Service | ERDF partner | bihari.z@met.hu | Hungary |
| Vienna University of Technology | ERDF partner | wolfgang.wagner@geo.tuwien.ac.at | Austria |
Project News
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DriDanube - Danube Drought Strategy now ready
- 06-04-2020
DriDanube project partners developed a Danube Drought Strategy which aims to build the capacity of the Danube region to overcome common deficiencies in coping with drought, and thus help switch from reactive to proactive drought management...
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DriDanube - Heat and drought in the summer 2019 in the Danube region
- 08-08-2019
After a very cold and rainy May, a period of unusually hot weather affected southwestern to central Europe. New all-time high-temperature records were set in Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany - making it the hottest June on record in...
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DriDanube - DriDanube project's final video
- 08-08-2019
One of the main achievements of the DriDanube project is the increased awareness about drought as a larger phenomenon that goes beyond the national level and about the possibility to detect it already in its early stages before it grows to an...
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DriDanube - DriDanube Drought Strategy
- 18-06-2019
„Drought management starts already at the stage when there are no signs of drought at all and we may think sufficient water conditions are going to last. However, they will come to an end eventually so it is already during that time when we need...
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DriDanube - Danube Drought Conference - outcomes
- 17-06-2019
Drought resilience in the Danube region - accelerating the momentum Focusing on the challenges and joint cooperation in the area of drought management in the Danube region, DriDanube project organized its Final conference on 7-8 May 2019 in...
