DAREnet project presents its RDI Roadmap for improved flood resilience in the Danube River Region in Budapest on 1st March 2019
1 Marca 2019 - 1 Marca 2019
Hungary
EU DANUBE RIVER REGION - FLOOD HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES
Between 2002 and 2014 seven major floods occurred in the Danube River basin which cost the lives of dozens of people and caused several billion euro of damage. In 2010 alone, one of the most severe floods affected mainly the central and eastern parts of the basin and caused 35 casualties and generated total damages estimated at 2 billion euro. On top of that, the magnitude of the floods required the mobilisation of more than 100,000 responders in Slovakia and Hungary to ensure flood mitigation and the evacuation of the affected population. As a result of climate change, it is assumed that the general flood risk for the Danube River Region will increase further in the future. With this risk, the risk of further casualties and economic damage is rising, too. This is where the DAREnet project steps in and seeks to increase the flood resilience of the Danube Region countries.
PRACTITIONER DRIVEN INNOVATION NEEDED
Flood practitioners will have to adapt fast to the increasing flood risk as well as keep pace with an ever faster changing society as, for example, an ageing population and increasing urbanisation, which makes their work more challenging. In this context, Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) become even more key-drivers for an improved performance and effectiveness of flood response across borders and disciplines. Innovations driven by the practitioners themselves are needed in order to enhance flood mitigation and response throughout the entire region. DAREnet will enable flood management practitioners in the Danube River Region to identify and analyse by and for themselves relevant innovation gaps and translate them into a joint innovation strategy to improve flood resilience in the future.
THE DAREnet RDI ROADMAP: DEFINING NEEDS AND INNOVATION OPPORTUNITIES
The DAREnet RDI Roadmap is the result of an iterative process of identifying, assessing and prioritising promising innovation opportunities to cope with the main environmental and societal challenges of the Danube River Region. It maps RDI requirements and gaps and emerged from a broad practitioner/expert dialogue and the regular consultation of competent national disaster management authorities.
The Roadmap herewith provides a well-balanced RDI strategy and programme which reflects both the needs on the ground and RDI policies. It also provides concrete perspectives for the further development, industrialisation and uptake of innovations of highest relevance for practitioners. The Roadmap will further be a contribution to support current or planned standardisation activities in the field of civil protection. The roadmap therewith builds a unique portfolio of joint innovation concepts for the Danube River Region.
DAREnet SUPPORTS NEW PRACTITIONER INITIATIVES
DAREnet is however not only about defining Research, Development and Innovation needs, it is also about seeding and incubating concrete innovation initiatives and to give them chance to find the support and resources required to realise them. These initiatives will grow on the basis of the DAREnet RDI Roadmap.
The lead authors of these initiatives will be the practitioners, formulating and developing their ideas with the support of the DAREnet network infrastructure. DAREnet calls all practitioners in the Region to launch their own or join ongoing initiatives.
The concept of the Calls for Practitioner Initiatives will be introduced at the DAREnet Annual Practitioner Forum in Budapest on 1st March 2019 and will be launched shortly after the event in spring 2019.
Contact Coordinator
Dr Christian J. Illing
Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW)
Provinzialstr. 93
53127 Bonn, Germany
project.Darenet@thw.de
Press Contact
darenet-arttic@eurtd.com
Registration to the DAREnet Annual Practitioner Forum is open until Sunday, 25th February 2019 at
https://cmt.eurtd.com/events/event/view/175985/darenet-annual-practitioner-forum(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
Between 2002 and 2014 seven major floods occurred in the Danube River basin which cost the lives of dozens of people and caused several billion euro of damage. In 2010 alone, one of the most severe floods affected mainly the central and eastern parts of the basin and caused 35 casualties and generated total damages estimated at 2 billion euro. On top of that, the magnitude of the floods required the mobilisation of more than 100,000 responders in Slovakia and Hungary to ensure flood mitigation and the evacuation of the affected population. As a result of climate change, it is assumed that the general flood risk for the Danube River Region will increase further in the future. With this risk, the risk of further casualties and economic damage is rising, too. This is where the DAREnet project steps in and seeks to increase the flood resilience of the Danube Region countries.
PRACTITIONER DRIVEN INNOVATION NEEDED
Flood practitioners will have to adapt fast to the increasing flood risk as well as keep pace with an ever faster changing society as, for example, an ageing population and increasing urbanisation, which makes their work more challenging. In this context, Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) become even more key-drivers for an improved performance and effectiveness of flood response across borders and disciplines. Innovations driven by the practitioners themselves are needed in order to enhance flood mitigation and response throughout the entire region. DAREnet will enable flood management practitioners in the Danube River Region to identify and analyse by and for themselves relevant innovation gaps and translate them into a joint innovation strategy to improve flood resilience in the future.
THE DAREnet RDI ROADMAP: DEFINING NEEDS AND INNOVATION OPPORTUNITIES
The DAREnet RDI Roadmap is the result of an iterative process of identifying, assessing and prioritising promising innovation opportunities to cope with the main environmental and societal challenges of the Danube River Region. It maps RDI requirements and gaps and emerged from a broad practitioner/expert dialogue and the regular consultation of competent national disaster management authorities.
The Roadmap herewith provides a well-balanced RDI strategy and programme which reflects both the needs on the ground and RDI policies. It also provides concrete perspectives for the further development, industrialisation and uptake of innovations of highest relevance for practitioners. The Roadmap will further be a contribution to support current or planned standardisation activities in the field of civil protection. The roadmap therewith builds a unique portfolio of joint innovation concepts for the Danube River Region.
DAREnet SUPPORTS NEW PRACTITIONER INITIATIVES
DAREnet is however not only about defining Research, Development and Innovation needs, it is also about seeding and incubating concrete innovation initiatives and to give them chance to find the support and resources required to realise them. These initiatives will grow on the basis of the DAREnet RDI Roadmap.
The lead authors of these initiatives will be the practitioners, formulating and developing their ideas with the support of the DAREnet network infrastructure. DAREnet calls all practitioners in the Region to launch their own or join ongoing initiatives.
The concept of the Calls for Practitioner Initiatives will be introduced at the DAREnet Annual Practitioner Forum in Budapest on 1st March 2019 and will be launched shortly after the event in spring 2019.
Contact Coordinator
Dr Christian J. Illing
Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW)
Provinzialstr. 93
53127 Bonn, Germany
project.Darenet@thw.de
Press Contact
darenet-arttic@eurtd.com
Registration to the DAREnet Annual Practitioner Forum is open until Sunday, 25th February 2019 at
https://cmt.eurtd.com/events/event/view/175985/darenet-annual-practitioner-forum(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
Słowa kluczowe
flood resilience, flood management, security, practitioner network, climate change, Danube River Region