The First Year Review and Steering Committee meeting took place on 5-6 June 2019 in Bucharest, Romania and it was a joint event that focused on the progress of the activities, their timely implementation and the related spent and validated costs, the progress towards the project objectives and output targets, management and communication of the project, potential risks, problems, delays and their possible solutions, a realistic forecast for the rest of implementation. It is to be based on a constructive dialogue between the programme management and the project partnership to get direct feedback on both sides about the status and perspectives of the project.

The 2nd project meeting aimed to know in detail the status of the project implementation and the technical and legal difficulties encountered by the partners to develop some activities; to reschedule some activities, to harmonize the technical approaches in view of further steps for WP3 and WP4.

The expert technical meeting for WP5 aimed to analyze, discuss and conclude on proper solutions of floodplain restoration and preservation approaches, but also on the key elements of floodplain restoration and preservation manual for improving flood risk mitigation in the Danube River Basin.