SIMONA Sediment-quality Information, Monitoring and Assessment System to support transnational cooperation for joint Danube Basin water management

On the 9th of April, the SIMONA Evaluation WG members gathered together for an online meeting via GoToMeeting app, to comment on the newest deliverable “D 5.1.1 Qualitative review report describing the sediment evaluation methods’ current status...

Starting this week, SI-GEOZS and most of our partners are working from home to contain the outbreak of COVID-19, following restrictions from the national authorities. All business and field trips are delayed until further notice, including the...

Announcement for the participation of the SIMONA project team at the round table in Varaždin The HGI project team of the SIMONA project will participate at the scientific and expert meeting in Varaždin, organized by Croatian Hydrological...

Almost the whole SIMONA consortium participated at the Mid-term Project meeting in Budapest. The meeting was organised on 29-30 January 2020, by our Hungarian partner HU-SZIE with the support of the lead partner SI-GEOZS, which took place at...

GI-BAS SIMONA, National Authorities, and Stakeholders WORKSHOP was held in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 10th, 2019. The Workshop was initiated and organized by the GI-BAS SIMONA team and took place at the Geological Institute at the Bulgarian...

The third Budapest Water Summit was organized on 15-17 October by the Hungarian Government with the motto of “ Preventing water crisis”. Discussion of the potential water crisis raised the question of its costs and possible prevention, the...

A SIMONA Working Groups 6 and 7 and Steering Committee Meeting was held in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 21. -22.10.2019. The meeting was initiated by the Project Management of DTP2-093-2.1 SIMONA project and organized by the GI-BAS SIMONA team. The event...

In the period from 9th till 11th of October, 6th Croatian geological congress was held in Zagreb (Croatia). The SIMONA team from Croatia and Slovenia participated at the congress with oral and poster presentations. The title of oral presentation...

Our Lead Partner (Geological Survey of Slovenia) is taking part at the 2nd Geology Congress of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event is taking place between 2nd and 4th of October in beautiful town Laktaši. Our project leader, dr. Jasminka Alijagić,...

The joint annual meeting of EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group (EGS-GEG) and IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines (IUGS-CGGB) were held 26 -27 September 2019 at the Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary, Budapest. At the...

A lovely city of Baia Mare which lies in northwest of Romania was hosting the September's SIMONA meeting. The meeting which took place on 13th September was held at the premises of Technical University of Cluj Napoca. The participants were...

The SIMONA partnership is announcing another meeting which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 21st and 22nd of October 2019 at the premises of Geological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting is to bring...

Last week of August Budapest was hosting the Laboratory WG Meeting. Most of the Laboratory WG members gathered to discuss the laboratory protocol development and deliverable finalization. Some partners attended the meeting via Skype. During...

A meeting within the Work Package 3 will take place in Baia Mare (Romania) on September 13th 2019. The work package 3 is dedicated to Inventory and case studies. The main resposible partner is RO-IGR (Geological Survey Romania). The following...

The SIMONA Laboratory workgroup workshop will be held in Budapest at Szent István University on 26th and 27th of August. The workshop that will be dedicated to develop the laboratory protocol for the SIMONA project. On the first day there...

From 18th to 19th of July 2019, sampling group, leaded by the HGI-CGS partner, held a workshop with the purpose to acquire the answers and solutions for the drainage sediment sampling methodology. Workshop was part of the #SIMONA project Work...

Host of the workshop: Croatian Geological Survey The main goal of the workshop: To discuss sampling methodology for the drainage river sediment. Participants of the workshop are members of the SIMONA project consortium, with experience...

The central celebration of the Danube Day in Serbia was held in Belgrade on June 15th 2019. Creative workshops were the main activity at the celebration and children could participate. They could learn the characteristics of the riverbed from the...

Work package leaders of the SIMONA project have already arrived to Budapest to participate in a 2-day event organised by Budapest University of Technology and Economics.  1. First Year Review Meeting On July 9th 2019 work package leaders...

The 7th Croatian Water Conference with international participation was held in Opatija in the period from May 30 to June 1, 2019. The motto of the Conference was Croatian Waters in Environmental and Nature Protection, and thematically was based...