Danube Sediment Balance – Sustainable, Integrated Transnational Sediment Quantity and Quality Management in the Danube River Basin
DanubeSediment_Q2 is funded by the Danube Region Programme (co-funded by the EU) and aims to improve the management of sediment quantity and quality in the Danube River Basin to achieve environmental objectives. The main output is the first Integrated Sediment Management Plan (ISMP) for the Danube River Basin. We will recommend concrete solutions and upscaling options to be taken up by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) in the next Danube River Basin Management Plan as well as the Flood Risk Management Plan. To achieve this for the first time, an improved and extended, combined sediment quantity and quality monitoring network and the outputs (i) a new hydromorphological assessment method and (ii) a sediment risk assessment method will be essential. Of central importance are the sediment management measures developed in an innovative co-design. For this reason, stakeholders are heavily involved in the discussion from the start. Their needs flow directly into the project. To develop new measures, monitoring and assessment are conducted, and computer models are developed based on case studies as well as on physical model tests. Furthermore, new methods for assessing hydromorphology and the risk of the effects of a disturbed sediment balance are being developed.
Objectives
The special objectives of the project are:
- Improved sediment monitoring, data management and evaluation methods in the Danube River Basin
- Feasibility of practical solutions to address sediment alteration being co-created with stakeholders
- Developed transboundary Integrated Sediment Management Plan ISMP for the Danube River Basin
Further Information can be found here: https://interreg-danube.eu/projects/danubesediment-q2
Budget
This project is supported by the Interreg Danube Region Programme co-funded by the European Union.
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2.893.187 € Project Budget |
2.893.187 € Interreg Funds |
1/2024-06/2026 Project duration |
UNSA project team
- prof. dr. Emina Hadžić, team leader
- prof. dr. Rifat Škrijelj, researcher/teacher,
- prof. dr. Sadbera Trozić-Borovac, researcher/teacher,
- prof. dr. Muhamed Bajrić, researcher/teacher,
- prof. dr. Maja Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, researcher/teacher,
- prof. dr. Hata Milišić, researcher/teacher,
- prof. dr. Suada Sulejmanović, researcher/teacher,
- Emir Hadžić, researcher/expert,
- Vedran Silajdžić, researcher/expert,
- Alma Bibović, researcher/expert,
- Emina Jahić, researcher/expert,
- Adela Nurković Kulenović, administrative staff,
- Alma Ajanović, comunication manager.