Project description
Creating a transformation in the Danube ecosystem
The Danube River, one of Europe’s natural treasures, has been facing critical challenges in its inland and coastal wetlands ecosystems. With this in mind, the EU-funded DaWetRest Lighthouse project aims to develop and pilot innovative solutions that will transform the Danube basin. It will focus on biodiversity, water quality, climate resilience, and socio-economic benefits for local communities. These solutions will be rigorously validated by local communities and regional stakeholders. The project also seeks to lay the groundwork for the replication and scaling up of these solutions. To achieve this, DaWetRest will build on prior knowledge, integrating results from interventions at various scales, merging data and digital tools, and involving local authorities and actors from the outset.
Objective
DAnube WETlands REStoration (DaWetRest) Lighthouse is designed to develop and demonstrate (pilot) concrete solutions applied on the Danube basin to address the challenges faced by its inland and coastal wetlands ecosystems’, namely on (i) biodiversity, (ii) water quality and availability, (iii) climate resilience and/or neutrality and (iv) socio-economic benefits for the local communities. These transformative and innovative solutions will be validated by local communities and main Regional and European-wide stakeholders.
DaWetRest has the role to prepare and plan the replication, deployment and scaling up of the validated innovative solutions for the next mission’s phase. For this important scope, DaWetRest project proposes several strong ideas, such as (i) building and selecting interventions based on extensive and prior know-how (sibling sites and non-EU experiences), (ii) local, regional and basin scale integrated interdependent analysis of results from the planned interventions, (iii) merge DaWetRest own data, models and digital tools with existing and future ones, towards a centralized knowledge centre in the future and (iv) involve the managing authorities and a number of local actors in the entire process, from the very beginning. Thus, DaWetRest results will accelerate and generalize the deployment of innovative solutions in the second phase of the Mission.
The demonstration of innovative and result-oriented solutions is organized in 3 DEMOs - DEMO Middle Danube (MD), DEMO Lower Danube (LD) and DEMO Danube Delta (DD). Each DEMO offers main intervention sites, pilots, sibling locations, replications, platforms/services, local stakeholders engagement and methodologies to strengthen the innovation, knowledge and cooperation in and beyond DaWetRest in Danube basin and across Europe.
Via a widely representative consortium as well as active cooperation (e.g. Community of Practices), DaWetRest will provide tools for a significant transformation in the Danube.
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1784 SOFIA
Bulgaria
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10000 Zagreb
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10000 Zagreb
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32100 VINKOVCI
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10410 Velika Gorica
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25000 SOMBOR
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10410 Velika Grorica
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5930 Belene
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7000 Ruse
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7017 Ruse
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1574 SOFIA
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820112 Tulcea
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040129 Bucuresti
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060042 Bucharest
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014617 Bucuresti
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820168 Tulcea
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827150 Murighiol
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820004 Tulcea
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700050 Iasi
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03056 KYIV
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45060 Orleans
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MD-2001 Chisinau
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7000-171 Evora
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106 82 ATHINA
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4450-309 Matosinhos
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70599 Stuttgart
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21131 Novi Sad
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31305 DRAZ
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7625 Pecs
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7621 Pécs
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25000 Sombor
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21000 Novi Sad
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7500 Silistra
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7600 Tutrakan
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7060 Slivo Pole
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7009 Ruse
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7000 Ruse
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8000 Burgas
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8800 Tulcea
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010018 Bucuresti
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820009 Tulcea
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820013 Tulcea
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827062 Sat Mila 23, Com. Crisan, Jud. Tulcea
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MD2004 Chisinau
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949 76 Nitra
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8200 Veszprem
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