DANUBE FLOODPLAIN project kick-off meeting sets the stage for 30 months of intense transnational cooperation across the Danube river basin.

The DANUBE FLOODPLAIN Project (Reducing the flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributaries) had its official “Kick-Off Meeting and First Stakeholder Event” on September 27-28, 2018 at the Capital Plaza Hotel, in Bucharest, Romania.

The DANUBE FLOODPLAIN project will be implemented by 18 partners with 4 associated strategic partners across ten countries sharing the Danube River Basin (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Serbia).

The main objective of the project is to improve transnational water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity. This can contribute to a network of more stable and living water ecosystems which provides further advantages for local people and is able to mitigate the various human impacts, as well as extreme climatic events. The project will result in improved knowledge among the Danube countries on integrative water management through restoration of floodplains, combination of grey and green infrastructure, natural retention measures, involving all related stakeholders, whose cooperation is very important regarding the planning and realization of such projects.

The Kick-Off Meeting was open only to project partners, who reviewed and detailed the project’s activities and its work plan while agreeing on immediate actions for the ongoing period and the next six months.

The Stakeholder engagement workshop was also organised to present key information on stakeholders’ engagement for the project activities and to set up a roadmap/process plan for stakeholder involvement.

In 28 September 2018 was the 1st meeting of the project Steering Committee where all the Project Partners and ASPs are represented at decision level, aiming to be informed about the state of the project.