Project description
Policy tools to clean up the Danube River
Home to nearly 80 million people, the Danube River Basin stretches across 19 European countries. Unfortunately, its main artery, the Danube River, is heavily affected by pollution. In this context, the EU-funded DALIA project will bring together 22 expert organisations from eight EU and associated countries to properly manage this complex and fragile ecosystem. The project will provide an integrated tool for better decision-making and improved restoration of fresh and transitional water ecosystems in the Danube River Basin. DALIA will contribute to the EU Water Framework Directive. It will also collaborate with a wider network of ecosystems and related EU Missions and projects.
Objective
In the Danube River Basin lives 79 million inhabitants. As the Danube River Management Plan indicates the majority (52%) of all rivers do not meet the criteria of good chemical status, moreover all monitored indicators deteriorated. The Danube River is an artery of the ecosystems of the whole DRB and the region with significant environmental impact. The river also has an important economic utilization supporting SMEs, and creating jobs for locals as well as having a cultural importance. To properly manage this complex and fragile ecosystem we must think of a river basin and harmonize our actions from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.
DALIA (Danube Region Water Lighthouse Action) is comprised of 22 expert organizations – including universities, authorities, SMEs and NGOs – from 8 different Danube EU and Associated countries accumulating an outstanding set of knowledge, covering not only the basin geographically but all different fields of expertise necessary to deal with the multidisciplinary issues from source to sea.
The project brings to DRB integrated DALIA tool, which will be integrate into DAnube Mission Hub for better decision making to improve DRB restoration of fresh and transitional water ecosystems; it provides options for strategies and policies that concern freshwater ecosystem protection and ecosystem connectivity in DRB and improved protection of local communities and ecosystems from extreme events and pollution threats.
The DALIA project will contribute directly to the establishment of EU and UN initiatives, related to the further execution on the Water Framework Directive by the execution of innovative actions across a variety of geographies, their scaling and the multiplication of outcomes with a wider network of ecosystems and related EU Missions and project actions throughout framework .
Fields of science
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsfreshwater ecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologydrainage basins
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
1012 Budapest
Hungary
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Participants (20)
150 00 Praha 5
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5000 SZOLNOK
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165 00 Praha
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150 00 PRAHA 5
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040 01 Kosice
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85072 Eichstätt
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9026 Gyor
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160 00 Praha
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1082 Budapest
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800008 Galati
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013686 Bucuresti
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21000 Novi Sad
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1133 Budapest
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410125 Oradea
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060031 Sector 6
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91054 Erlangen
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11000 BEOGRAD
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7000 Ruse
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010374 Bucuresti
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D02 XE80 LOWER DUBLIN
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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4058 Basel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.