DanubeSediment Danube Sediment Management - Restoration of the Sediment Balance in the Danube River

Last week in Budapest, over 70 stakeholders from throughout the Danube River Basin took part in the final DanubeSediment Stakeholder Conference. Under the topic of “Transnational Cooperation for Sediment Management in the Danube”, we presented...

The collection and analysis of data for the first sediment balance of the Danube River is finished! Our main tasks were to gather, sort and analyse data required for the quantification of downstream sediment fluxes and for the identification of...

We invite all interested stakeholders to the "Transnational Cooperation for Sediment Management in the Danube" conference on 19 November 2019 at the BME University in Budapest! After almost 3 years of data collection and analysis, we look forward...

We would like to invite all interested stakeholders to our International Sediment Balance Workshop on October 21st 2019 in Bratislava. At the workshop, our project partners will present key results and outputs from their assessment of the...

Historically, human activities have changed the Danube and its tributaries. For example, straightening the river for flood protection, altering waterways for navigation or building dams hydropower generation: all these changes affect the natural...

Under this year’s motto „Get active for a safer Danube“, the DanubeSediment project partners took part in an array of Danube Day events and festivities. During these celebrations, our project focused on increasing awareness about the role and...

On June 26th 2019, over 50 experts came to Bucharest to participate in the International Workshop on Sediment Management Measures. Hosted by National Administration “Romanian Waters”, the workshop presented good practices in sediment management...

Despite the ongoing rain, we could feel the nice atmosphere of the Mediterranean-touched city during our project meeting on 28 and 29 May in Ljubljana (see image below). On a sunny day, the city must be beautiful! Since food isn’t dependent on...

Stakeholders from around the Danube River Basin are invited to join the "INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on SEDIMENT MEASURES", which is taking place in Bucharest on 26 June 2019. The workshop aims to discuss the project recommendations and ideas for...

Sediment is an important and upcoming issue for water management in the Danube River Basin. This is why the newest issue of the ICPDR magazine Danube Watch highlights the topic of sediment management! The DanubeSediment project team has...

DanubeSediment will not only determine the changes in the sediment regime of the Danube, but it also looks at the human activities that have caused these changes. The report on “Interactions of Key Drivers and Pressures on the Morphodynamics of...

Important decisions were taken during the last project meeting on 26 to 28 March 2019 in Munich. For example on the sediment balance: Since DanubeSediment only wants to publish solid results, the partners agreed to exclude values for certain...

Finally, here it is, our first DanubeSediment project video! Please share it and stay tuned, more videos will follow!

How much sediment does the Danube transport? How has the balance of sediment changed over time? These are some of the major questions that the DanubeSediment project partners seek to answer. As a precondition for calculating the sediment...

We are very happy to announce that we have finalised the first reports of the DanubeSediment project! You can find them on our website under this link. What are these reports all about? First, the DanubeSediment project seeks to analyse and...

Regular project meetings to discuss data gaps and key challenges In the past three months, the DanubeSediment team had three intense meetings in Bucharest, Vienna and Zagreb. At each meeting, the work package leaders presented their latest...

We are glad to announce that one of the photos we submitted in this year’s Danube Transnational Programme Photo Competition has been selected as one of 20 finalists! Our winning photograph shows the deposit of sediments at the confluence of Isar...

Since the beginning of DanubeSediment, our project partners have regularly involved their stakeholders in our project work. Throughout the past year, national workshops were held in all nine partner countries. They took place in Croatia, Germany,...

Under this year’s motto „Be active for a healthier Danube“, our project partners took part in an array of Danube Day events and festivities. During these celebrations, the DanubeSediment contributions focused on increasing awareness for the topic...

Along the Danube you can find different DanubeSediment activities during the International Danube Day 2018 festivities on June 20th 2018. Some project partners are also organizing events in the days and weeks before or afterwards, depending on...