JOINTISZA Strengthening cooperation between river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance the status of waters of the Tisza River Basin
Over-exploitation of water resources, water regime modifications, water contamination, and a growing number of flood events—negative effects of which are amplified by climate change—are all issues that require harmonised, integrated actions from management authorities in countries that share river basins.
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The JOINTISZA project will enhance the status of waters of the Tisza River Basin. It will focus on the interactions of two key aspects of water management — river basin management (RBM) and flood protection — while taking into account the relevant stakeholders who play a pivotal role in the Tisza RBM planning process. The main aim of the project is to further improve the integration of water management and flood risk prevention planning and actions for the next RBM planning cycle, in line with the relevant EU legislation.
The JOINTISZA project will ensure that flood risk management planning becomes more deeply embedded in the RBM planning process, and will also facilitate the involvement of interested stakeholders and relevant sectors (e.g. flood risk-, water resource-, urban hydrology- and drought management).
A long-term goal of the project will be to generate momentum for improved implementation of the Floods Directive and Water Framework Directive, targeting four specific groups: national water administrations, water research institutes, international organisations and other interested stakeholders, and NGOs.
The project will involve the joint efforts of the five countries that share the Tisza River Basin — Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) Tisza Group, the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) Water Quality Priority Area (PA4) and Environmental Risks Priority Area (PA5) platforms will build a bridge between stakeholders for conveying information from expert levels to policy levels. Furthermore, the pilot actions, focusing on urban hydrology management and drought management, will enable the involved actors to develop new approaches which are unprecedented in a comparable environment, and contribute with their outcomes to the updated management plan.
Finally, the main output of the project will be an updated final draft of the Integrated Tisza RBM Plan, which already includes the primary aspects of the Floods Directive.
Lake Tisza,Tiszafüred, Hungary
- Start date
- 01-01-2017
- End date
- 30-09-2019
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 2254126,8
- ERDF Contribution: 1702467,9
- IPA Contribution: 213539,86
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 1
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Strengthen transnational water management and flood risk prevention
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Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Directorate of Water Management | Lead partner | jointisza@ovf.hu | Hungary |
| National Administration "Romanian Waters" | ERDF partner | Anemari.ciurea@rowater.ro | Romania |
| Ministry of Water and Forest | ERDF partner | anna.roman@mmediu.ro | Romania |
| National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management | ERDF partner | ramona.dumitrache@hidro.ro | Romania |
| Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe | ERDF partner | ikoszta@rec.org | Hungary |
Project News
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JOINTISZA - BASIN-WIDE ELECTRONIC STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT IN THE JOINTISZA PROJECT (SWMIs)
- 09-08-2019
YOUR OPINION MATTERS!!! ELECTRONIC STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT IN THE JOINTISZA PROJECT Dear Stakeholders The Tisza River Basin (TRB) is the largest sub-basin of the Danube River Basin with drainage area of 156 869 km²and...
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JOINTISZA - Waste collection on the Tisza
- 30-07-2019
After weeks of flooding of the Tisza River a record volume of drift wood and communal waste -mostly plastic- mass has reached the Kisköre barrage. The surface of this drift mass covers 17 000 m2 and can be thicker than 3 m. To manage the...
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JOINTISZA - Final conference
- 17-06-2019
JOINTISZA FINAL CONFERENCE 30 May 2019 Szolnok, Hungary, Agora Center The JOINTISZA project entered to its final stage. It was the time to summarize the results and achievements of the project. In the Final Conference more than...
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JOINTISZA - 4th Editorial Meeting, Bratislava
- 03-05-2019
The 4th Editorial Meeting of the JOINTISZA project was held on April 24th, 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. During the meeting the Project Partners discussed the most up-to-date version of the draft Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan,...
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JOINTISZA - Final conference
- 26-02-2019
Save the date! The JOINTISZA Project's final closing event is planned to be held 30th May, 2019. The last Steering Committee, Work Package and Project Management Unit meetings are about to take place the days before.
