Project description
Citizen engagement for river restoration
Europe’s rivers are congested. More than a million barriers, like dams, ramps and fords, are causing extensive loss of river connectivity. In addition, human interventions have ecologically degraded a whopping 70 to 90 % of Europe’s floodplain. Despite ambitious EU policy to turn things around, fresh and transitional water ecosystem restoration remains limited. The EU-funded DANUBE4all project will develop a comprehensive restoration action plan for the Danube River basin lighthouse. The project will engage stakeholders, integrating citizens’ interests to support the EU Mission ‘Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030’ in an unprecedented cocreation process. The action plan will rely on solid scientific knowledge and new findings to promote ecological status, biodiversity, and ecosystem connectivity improvement.
Objective
Over one million barriers on Europe’s rivers have resulted in extensive loss of river connectivity and 70-90 % of Europe’s floodplain areas are ecologically degraded due to human modifications. Despite having an ambitious EU policy framework in place, implementation of fresh and transitional water ecosystem restoration is lagging behind. Reasons for this lie among others in a lack of knowledge, awareness and participation of local people and business actors. The overall aim of DANUBE4all is the development of a comprehensive Restoration Action Plan for the Danube river basin lighthouse developed in an unprecedented co-creation process with stakeholders, integrating citizens’ interests to support the Mission “Restore our ocean and waters by 2030”. Based on solid scientific knowledge and new findings, the Action Plan will promote the improvement of ecological status, biodiversity and ecosystem connectivity. The development and implementation of innovative “Win-Win Nature Based Solutions” will simultaneously lead to an enhanced free-flowing status of rivers and floodplains, flood and drought risk reduction and enhancement of sediment and biota continuity. The aim is to adapt to climate change as well as to improve the endangered biodiversity of ecosystems. This will be reached by identifying, processing and upscaling effective and economically profitable restoration measures. DANUBE4all will implement innovative demonstration activities at three sites in the Upper, Middle Danube and the Danube Delta. DANUBE4all will link ecological and economic benefits providing tailored business cases for SMEs, and will deliver innovative tools to accelerate citizens’ and stakeholders’ engagement. DANUBE4all will provide GIS and Citizen Science tools for upscaling these restoration actions via ten Synergy Sites to the Danube Basin and will also transfer the outcomes to five Associated Regions by concrete steps towards the development of Replication Roadmaps for restoration action.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringecosystem-based managementecological restoration
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologydrainage basins
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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1150 Wien
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024053 Bucharest
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65016 Odessa
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10717 BERLIN
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11030 Beograd
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833 15 Bratislava
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12489 Berlin
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00185 Roma
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10000 Zagreb
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T12 YN60 Cork
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1113 Sofia
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81249 Bratislava
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2629 HV Delft
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820112 Tulcea
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1000 Ljubljana
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2304 Orth an der Donau
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1141 Budapest
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9728 VS Groningen
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1220 Wien
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1111 Budapest
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050881 Bucuresti
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010601 Bucuresti
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1400 Wien
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81925 München
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8010 Graz
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81235 Bratislava
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811 02 Bratislava
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841 04 Bratislava
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86179 Ausburg
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1012 Wien
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9021 Győr
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1088 Budapest
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1030 Wien
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3000 Celje
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1000 Sofia
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30135 Venezia
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1068 Budapest
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3109 St. Pölten
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1010 Wien
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7000 Ruse
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8800 Tulcea
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820033 Tulcea
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810210 BRAILA
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827062 Sat Mila 23, Com. Crisan, Jud. Tulcea
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PL1 3DH Plymouth
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FK9 4LA Stirling
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