JOINTISZA Strengthening cooperation between river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance the status of waters of the Tisza River Basin

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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.

The 3rd Editorial Meeting of the JOINTISZA project will be held on 13th March 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. During the meeting the Project Partners will discuss the most up-to-date version of the draft Integrated Tisza River Basin Management...

Five countries in the 157,000 square kilometers of Tisza river basin design new methodologies for flood and water quality planning in the JOINTISZA program launched in 2017. Planning is of the utmost importance to prevent the anticipated effects...

Source: Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe Website The uneven distribution and quality of water resources in the Tisza River Basin brings challenges on how to elaborate the Programme of Measures as required by the EU Water...

    From food packaging in shops to straws in bars, single-use plastics are so ubiquitous in modern society that they can be hard to avoid while navigating through daily life. As a result, plastic waste is now reaching sites that were either...

The PLASTIC CUP is a Hungarian civil initiative was launched by Természetfilm.hu Association film making society for the cleaning of the Tisza river. With the aim to call the attention to the growing problem of plastic pollution of our water...

The public involvement within the framework of the JOINTISZA project is an important element. Different levels and steps of involvement were planned and described in the original project proposal. The direct involvement of SHs started with a...

The waste pollution on river Tisza is a huge environmental problem! PET KUPA (The PLASTIC Cup), the non-profit, non-governmental initiative, was created to eliminate this problem. This environmental action contributes to clean river Tisza by...

International Danube Day – Challenges of plastic waste in the Danube region and beyond. Let’s act together! On the 29th of June each year, the 14 countries of the Danube Basin jointly celebrate one of Europe's greatest river systems. It...

3rd Work Package and Steering Committee Meeting for the JOINTISZA - Interreg Danube project in Bucharest on 5th-7th June 2018.   Third Work Package meeting for the JOINTISZA - Interreg Danube project was held in Bucharest on 5th-6th June...

The Slovak National Consultation Dialogue on the Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan took place on 10 April 2018 at the Slovak Water Management Enterprise in Kosice, Slovakia. Over 20 Slovak key stakeholders from the Tisza River...

The first step of the stakeholder involvement in Hungary was to target the most important sectors and think together about the most significant water management issues. Within the agricultural sector, the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture...

Since the first meeting of stakeholders held in Serbia, the representatives from The Institute for Nature Conservation in Vojvodina showed a great interest and willingness to participate actively in the JOINTISZA project. Reasons for this...

Over 40 stakeholders from the Uzh River basin took part in a workshop in Uzhgorod on February 27, 2018, to discuss the Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan (ITRBMP). Representatives of governmental organisations in the water and...

The JOINTISZA project has decided on a new pilot project area. The selected area, 2884.6 km2 in size, is part of the TIKEVIR water management system and KÖTIVIZIG operational area. The main goal of the pilot activity is to investigate...

       Bringing stakeholders on board Building on the successful train-the-planners seminar, held in Szolnok in June 2017, JOINTISZA project partners are keen to get more stakeholders involved in national-level activities in the five...