OPtimal strategies to retAIN and re-use water and nutrients in small agricultural catchments across different soil-climatic regions in Europe

Project Information

OPTAIN

Grant agreement ID: 862756

DOI

10.3030/862756

EC signature date 20 April 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Total cost

€ 6 999 856,25

EU contribution

€ 6 999 856,25

Coordinated by

HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (20)

Stakeholder mapping report, covering the case studies

Stakeholder mapping report covering the case studies

Attractiveness and socio-economic assessment of NSWRMs
Modelling protocols
Communication and dissemination strategy

Communication and dissemination strategy (updated in month 24 and 48)

Solutions to overcome data scarcity
Created data pre-processors successfully applied for input data restructuring

Created data preprocessors successfully applied for input data restructuring

Training analysis identifying the needs and capacity of relevant target groups for tailoring the OPTAIN Learning Environment to their potential users' requirements

Training analysis identifying the needs and capacity of relevant target groups for tailoring the OPTAIN Learning Environment to their potential users’ requirements (update in month 54)

Learning Environment development strategy

Learning Environment development strategy (updated in month 36 and 48)

Assessment of on-site NSWRM effectiveness under current and future climate at the field and farm scale
Post-processing & interactive visualization of optimization results
Coherent catalogue with a selection of most promising NSWRMs including results from MARG exchanges (to be used for modelling and optimization)

Coherent catalogue with a selection of most promising NSWRMs including results from MARG exchanges to be used for modelling and optimization

Legislative recommendations for future harmonisation of water and agricultural policy on local, regional, national and EU level

Legislative recommendations for future harmonisation of water and agricultural policy on local regional national and EU level

Common working environment with standardised metadata for the harmonised reporting of project outputs
Assessment of NSWRM effectiveness under current and future climate at the catchment scale
Common optimization protocol
Minutes of training event for project partners on knowledge transfer and dissemination
Tailored environmental and socio-economic performance indicators for selected measures

Tailored environmental and socioeconomic performance indicators for selected measures

Standardised guidelines for the parameterisation of NSWRM (for modelling purposes) and participatory scenarios

Standardised guidelines for the parameterisation of NSWRM for modelling purposes and participatory scenarios

Workshop and report on how to establish and nurture MARGs for constructive engagement in water - agriculture - environmental conflict related issues

Workshop and report on how to establish and nurture MARGs for constructive engagement in water agriculture environmental conflict related issues

Assessment of local conditions important for NSWRM implementation

Other (2)

Climate scenarios for integrated modelling
Practice Abstracts (first set)

"The resulting innovative knowledge and easy accessible end-user material from this project will feed into the EIP-AGRI (The agricultural European Innovation Partnership) website for broad dissemination. The end-user material to be produced contains a substantial number of summaries for practitioners in the EIP common format (""practice abstracts""), including the characteristics of the project (e.g. contact details of artners, etc). A full package of practice abstracts will be produced by the project, containing all the outcomes/recommendations which are ready for practice.A practice abstract is a short summary of around 1000-1500 characters (word count – no spaces; see below) which describes the main information/recommendation/practice that can serve the end-users in their daily practice. Guidance and templates for these practice abstracts are available on the EIP-AGRI web site: http://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/content/eip-agri-common-format . A total target number of 12 practice abstracts is foreseen for the project. Half of them are expected to be delivered in the first batch."

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Launch of OPTAIN website and social media

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway

Author(s): Froukje Maria Platjouw, Ingrid Nesheim, Caroline Enge
Published in: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 485-500, ISSN 2050-0386
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/reel.12509

Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway

Author(s): Froukje Maria Platjouw; Ingrid Nesheim; Caroline Enge
Published in: RECIEL - Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 2023, Page(s) 1‐16, ISSN 2050-0386
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/reel.12509

Integrated Water Quality Management Model for the Rural Transboundary River Basin—A Case Study of the Sutla/Sotla River

Author(s): Gorana Ćosić-Flajsig, Barbara Karleuša, Matjaž Glavan
Published in: Water, Issue Volume 13(18), September 2021, 2021, Page(s) 2569 (1-27), ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w13182569

Investigating Plant Response to Soil Characteristics and Slope Positions in a Small Catchment

Author(s): Tibor Zsigmond, Péter Braun, János Mészáros, István Waltner, Ágota Horel
Published in: Land, Issue Volume 11(6), 2022, Page(s) 774, ISSN 2073-445X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/land11060774

Determining Tipping Points and Responses of Macroinvertebrate Traits to Abiotic Factors in Support of River Management

Author(s): Forio, M.A.E.; Goethals, P.L.M.; Lock, K.; Nguyen, T.H.T..; Damanik-Ambarita, M.N.; Dominguez-Granda, L.; Thas, O.
Published in: Biology, Issue Volume 12(4), 2023, Page(s) 593, ISSN 2079-7737
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biology12040593

In Situ Observation-Constrained Global Surface Soil Moisture Using Random Forest Model

Author(s): Lijie Zhang; Yijian Zeng; Ruodan Zhuang; Brigitta Szabó; Salvatore Manfreda; Qianqian Han; Zhongbo Su
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue Volume 13(23), December 2021, 2021, Page(s) 4893 (1-22), ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs13234893

Long-term soil water content dynamics under different land uses in a small agricultural catchment

Author(s): Ágota Horel, Tibor Zsigmond, Sándor Molnár, Imre Zagyva, Zsófia Bakacsi
Published in: Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, Issue Volume 70(3), 2022, Page(s) 284-294, ISSN 1338-4333
Publisher: Sciendo
DOI: 10.2478/johh-2022-0015

Evaluation of pedotransfer functions for predicting soil hydraulic properties: A voyage from regional to field scales across Europe

Author(s): Paolo Nasta; Brigitta Szabó; Nunzio Romano
Published in: Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2214-5818
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100903

Significance of hydromorphological and sediment analysis in river basin water quality management

Author(s): Ćosić-Flajsig, Gorana; Karleuša, Barbara; Vučković, Ivan; Glavan, Matjaž
Published in: Environmental sciences proceedings, Issue Volume 23(1), 2022, Page(s) 14, ISSN 2673-4931
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/environsciproc2022021014

Evaluation of pedotransfer functions for predicting soil hydraulic properties: A voyage from regional to field scales across Europe

Author(s): P. Nasta, B. Szabó, N. Romano
Published in: Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, Issue 37, 2022, Page(s) 100903, ISSN 2214-5818
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100903

Regional targeting of purpose driven wetlands: success or failure?

Author(s): Pia Geranmayeh, Amanda Speks, Malgorzata Blicharska, Martyn Futter, Dennis Collentine
Published in: Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2813-3005
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fsrma.2023.1251291

Water quality in a large complex catchment: Significant effects of land use and soil type but limited ability to detect trends

Author(s): Sara Sandström, Emma E. Lannergård, Martyn N. Futter, Faruk Djodjic
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 349, 2025, Page(s) 119500, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119500

How to Select a Location and a Design of Measures on Land Drainage – A Case Study from the Czech Republic

Author(s): Antonín Zajíček, Tomáš Hejduk, Libor Sychra, Tomáš Vybíral, Petr Fučík
Published in: Journal of Ecological Engineering (JEE), Issue Volume 23(4), January 2022, 2022, Page(s) 43-57, ISSN 2299-8993
Publisher: Polish Society of Ecological Engineering (PTIE); Lublin University of Technology
DOI: 10.12911/22998993/146270

Toward sustainable irrigation practices safeguarding groundwater biodiversity and ecosystem services

Author(s): Cene Fišer, Maja Zagmajster, Anita Jemec Kokalj, Nina Mali, Tanja Šumrada, Matjaž Glavan, Grant C Hose, Benjamin Schwartz, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Christian Griebler, Rozalija Cvejić
Published in: BioScience, 2025, Page(s) biaf016, ISSN 0006-3568
Publisher: American Institute of Biological Sciences
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf016

SWAT + input data preparation in a scripted workflow: SWATprepR

Author(s): Svajunas Plunge, Brigitta Szabó, Michael Strauch, Natalja Čerkasova, Christoph Schürz, Mikołaj Piniewski
Published in: Environmental Sciences Europe, Issue 36, 2024, ISSN 2190-4715
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12302-024-00873-1

Sequestering carbon in the subsoil benefits crop transpiration at the onset of drought

Author(s): Maria Eliza Turek, Attila Nemes, Annelie Holzkämper
Published in: SOIL, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) 545-560, ISSN 2199-398X
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/soil-9-545-2023

Natural/Small Water Retention Measures: Their Contribution to Ecosystem-Based Concepts

Author(s): Julie Magnier, Benoît Fribourg-Blanc, Tatenda Lemann, Felix Witing, William Critchley, Martin Volk
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 1308, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su16031308

Zukunftsfähige Agrarlandschaften in Deutschland – Ziele und Anforderungen aus ökologischer, ökonomischer und rechtlicher Sicht

Author(s): Stefan Möckel, Marieke Baake, Bartosz Bartkowski, Elisabeth Veronika Henn, Michael Strauch, Jessica Stubenrauch
Published in: Natur und Recht, Issue 44, 2022, Page(s) 611-621, ISSN 0172-1631
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10357-022-4073-x

Addressing soil data needs and data gaps in catchment-scale environmental modelling: the European perspective

Author(s): Brigitta Szabó, Piroska Kassai, Svajunas Plunge, Attila Nemes, Péter Braun, Michael Strauch, Felix Witing, János Mészáros, Natalja Čerkasova
Published in: SOIL, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 587-617, ISSN 2199-398X
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/soil-10-587-2024

Hydro-pedotransfer functions: a roadmap for future development

Author(s): Tobias Karl David Weber, Lutz Weihermüller, Attila Nemes, Michel Bechtold, Aurore Degré, Efstathios Diamantopoulos, Simone Fatichi, Vilim Filipović, Surya Gupta, Tobias L. Hohenbrink, Daniel R. Hirmas, Conrad Jackisch, Quirijn de Jong van Lier, John Koestel, Peter Lehmann, Toby R. Marthews, Budiman Minasny, Holger Pagel, Martine van der Ploeg, Shahab Aldin Shojaeezadeh, Simon Fiil Svane, Brigit
Published in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 3391-3433, ISSN 1607-7938
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/hess-28-3391-2024

In Situ Observation-Constrained Global Surface Soil Moisture Using Random Forest Model

Author(s): Lijie Zhang, Yijian Zeng, Ruodan Zhuang, Brigitta Szabó, Salvatore Manfreda, Qianqian Han, Zhongbo Su
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 4893, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs13234893

Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development

Author(s): Yonggen Zhang, Lutz Weihermüller, Brigitta Toth, Muhammad Noman, Harry Vereecken
Published in: Vadose Zone Journal, Issue Volume 21(5), 2022, Page(s) e20227, ISSN 1539-1663
Publisher: Soil Science Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20227

SWAT+ model setup verification tool: SWATdoctR

Author(s): Svajunas Plunge, Christoph Schürz, Natalja Čerkasova, Michael Strauch, Mikołaj Piniewski
Published in: Environmental Modelling & Software, Issue 171, 2025, Page(s) 105878, ISSN 1364-8152
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105878

Zukunftsfähige Agrarlandschaften in Deutschland – praktische Maßnahmen und ihre Wirksamkeit im Vergleich

Author(s): Stefan Möckel, Bartosz Bartkowski, Michael Beckmann, Michael Strauch, Jessica Stubenrauch, Martin Volk, Felix Witing, André Wolf, Marieke Cornelia Baaken
Published in: Natur und Recht, Issue 46, 2024, Page(s) 13-24, ISSN 0172-1631
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10357-023-4282-y

Other (1)

Sustainable Cultivated Landscapes in Germany: Comparison of 27 Practical Measures for more Sustainability and their Effectiveness.

Author(s): Stefan Möckel, Marieke Cornelia Baaken, Bartosz Bartkowski, Michael Beckmann, Michael Strauch, Jessica Stubenrauch, Martin Volk, Felix Witing, André Wolf
Published in: UFZ Discussion Papers, Issue 2/2024, 2024, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1436-140X
Publisher: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ

Conference proceedings (3)

Sequestering carbon in the subsoil benefits crop transpiration at the onset of drought

Author(s): Maria Eliza Turek; Attila Nemes; Annelie Holzkämper
Published in: EGUsphere, 2023, Page(s) 1-35
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-1077

Vízmegtartó intézkedések lehetőségeinek azonosítása az Optain Projekt magyarországi mintaterületein

Author(s): Péter Molnár, Edina Somogyi, Kinga Farkas-Iványi, Piroska Kassai, Ágota Horel, Péter Braun, Brigitta Szabó
Published in: A Magyar Hidrológiai Társaság XXXIX. Országos Vándorgyűlés dolgozatai, Issue 218, 2022, Page(s) 20
Publisher: Hungarian Hydrological Society
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10159384

Significance of Hydromorphological and Sediment Analysis in River Basin Water Quality Management

Author(s): Gorana Ćosić-Flajsig, Barbara Karleuša, Ivan Vučković, Matjaž Glavan
Published in: EWaS5 International Conference: “Water Security and Safety Management: Emerging Threats or New Challenges? Moving from Therapy and Restoration to Prognosis and Prevention”, Issue 21(1), 2024, Page(s) 14
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/environsciproc2022021014

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Hindringer og mulige løsninger for å ta i bruk vannmiljøtiltak i jordbruksdominerte nedbørfelt (Natural and small water-retention measures in agriculture dominated areas: Possible barriers to uptake and solutions)

Author(s): Caroline Gundersen Enge, Ingrid Nesheim, Anne-Grete Buseth Blankenberg, Dominika Krzeminska
Published in: Vann, Issue 59(4), 2024, Page(s) 261-272, ISSN 0042-2592
Publisher: NIVA
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15297956

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Socio-Economic Influences and Reported Benefits of the implementation of Natural Water Retention Measures in the Morsa Catchment

Author(s): Atle Emil Volden
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Monographic books (1)

Berechnung der Bewässerungsbedürfnisse unter aktuellen und zukünftigen Bedingungen in der Schweiz

Author(s): Sebastián Eisenring, Annelie Holzkämper, Pierluigi Calanca
Published in: Agroscope Science, Issue 107, 2021, Page(s) 1-55, ISSN 2296-729X
Publisher: Agroscope
DOI: 10.34776/as107g