DREAM – Danube River Research and Management

August 8, 2017in Projects 0 Likes

BASIC  PROJECT  DATA

Project ID: PA1A099

 

NEED  AND  ADDED  VALUE  FOR  THE  DANUBE  REGION  STRATEGY

There is an urgent need to integrate the use and the protection of the Danube River in a sustainable way. Research is of fundamental importance to derive monitoring strategies, modelling and engineering solutions to improve measures suited to reach a win-win situation between economic use and environmental protection of the Danube River. This will be strongly related to the Danube River Basin Management Plan.

The project DREAM provides the umbrella and coordination for setting up research topics. These topics are interconnected and cover several disciplines, from basic research, to be represented by advanced hydraulic labs and sophisticated 3D models on high computational technology, to applied research, providing field data to mitigate hydrological extremes and to improve existing situations in water regimes, sediment regime, flood risk, drought problems, revision of bio-engineering measures, restoration of streams and flood plains, etc.

 

OBJECTIVE(S)  OF  THE  PROJECT

a) An important aim is to enable research of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphodynamics and ecological processes in the various reaches of the Danube River by means of adequate hydraulic laboratories, that provide a significant discharge (up to 10 m³/s without pumping) and space (large scale models).

b) On the basis of an improved process understanding, derived by the large scale physical models in the labs, computer-based simulations should be improved, leading to hybrid models. A further aim is to establish commonly agreed field study sites and stations along the Danube River to calibrate and validate physical and computer-based models as well as to develop and test advanced river engineering measures under 1:1 conditions.

c) The cooperation of research institutions and laboratories along the Danube River is intended to improve scientific progress and to stimulate the transfer from basic research to the knowledge society.

 

PLANNED  PROJECT  ACTIVITIES

Act. 1: Construction of two large Responsible River Modelling Centers/hydraulic and environmental engineering laboratories (up to 10m³): one in the upstream section, one in the downstream section of the Danube being able to undertake basic and applied, interdisciplinary Danube River Research, including the development and test of innovative river engineering measures to improve the situation (in the context of hydropower, navigation, ecology, flood risk management, drinking water supply, recreation, remobilisation of sediments etc.).

In Austria, Activity 1 is currently being implemented in four component projects.
The four projects are co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through different programmes.

1.   SEDDON II (Sediment Resarch and Management at the Danube River II):
INTERREG V-A Austria-Hungary 2014-2020

  • Lead Partner: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
  • Partner 2: Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
  • Partner 3: North-Transdanubian Water Directorate (EDUVIZIG)
  • Partner 4: BOKU-Wasserbaulabor Errichtungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH
  • Strategic Partner Federal Agency for Water Management Vienna (BAW)

2.   DREAM SK-AT (Danube River Research and Management in Slovakia and Austria):
      INTERREG V-A Slovakia-Austria 2014-2020

  • Lead Partner: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
  • Partner 1: Water Research Institute Department of Hydrology and Hydraulics
  • Partner 2: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Landscape Ecology
  • Partner 3: BOKU-Wasserbaulabor Errichtungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH
  • Strategic Partner: Federal Agency for Water Management Vienna (BAW)

3.   DREAM RRMC VIENNA (Wasserbaulabor):
Investments in Growth and Employment Austria 2014-2020 – Operational Programme

  • Lead Partner: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
  • Partner: BOKU-Wasserbaulabor Errichtungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH

4.   SEDECO (Sediments, ecosystem services and interrelation with floods and droughts in the AT-CZ
border region):
INTERREG V-A Austria-Czech Republic 2014-2020

  • Lead Partner: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
  • Partner 1: Brno University of Technology
  • Partner 2: Povodí Moravy, s.p.
  • Partner 3: BOKU-Wasserbaulabor Errichtungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH
  • Strategic Partner: Federal Agency for Water Management Vienna (BAW)

Act. 2: Cooperation of existing hydraulic engineering laboratories for improvement of expertise in all partner countries and to provide knowledge transfer. An upgrade of laboratory instrumentation improves the ability of modern scale models to solve river engineering models. Cooperation with the large scale laboratories is intended.

Act. 3: Formation of a cluster/network of river engineering simulation tools to be used by Danube countries (common software development and implementation), allowing to perform long-term and large scale analyses of the development of the Danube River (e.g. riverbed aggradation or degradation) and to predict effects of river engineering works.

Act. 4: Establishment of a network of field study sites along the Danube River and tributaries or process analysis, model calibration and validation and test of advanced river engineering solutions, being suited for carrying out benchmarking studies related to basic abiotic and biotic processes and interrelations with river engineering measures.

Act. 5: Construction and operation of a research vessel with diving shaft for the whole Danube area (e.g. operated from Serbian base) to enable river bed research at various parts of the Danube river and to perform in situ investigations of river bed dynamics/morphodynamics, sediment transport, effects of river engineering measures and biological processes, thus forming a strong link to management.

Act. 6: Establishment of a network of existing and extended Danube River Research Institutions throughout all riparian countries, including a strong link to management and society for strengthening and improving the scientific knowledge on the Danube River.

 

TRANSBOUNDARY  IMPACT

All Danube riparian states and tributary states are (potential) partners, affected regions are suitable field study sites at the Danube and its tributaries as well as surrounding wetlands. Laboratory research will take place in qualified institutions and universities. All partners are participants, performing research, providing and gaining information and results, developing a sustainable and common procedure and management strategies for Danube river issues.

 

PROJECT  BENEFICIARIES  /  TARGET  GROUPS

  • Universities and research organisations along the Danube and its tributaries
  • Public and private sectors (ministries, regions, hydroelectric companies, waterway administrations, NGOs)

 

 

STATUS  AND  TIMEFRAME

Start date: 01.07.2012
End date: 31.12.2020 (for Activity 1 in Austria)

 

 

FINANCING

Total budget: 69,600,000 EUR for all activities
EU funds for Activity 1 in Austria (all four projects): 26,000,000 EUR (European Regional Development Fund) funded by

  • INTERREG V-A Slovakia-Austria 2014-2020
  • INTERREG V-A Austria-Czech Republic 2014-2020
  • INTERREG V-A Austria-Hungary 2014-2020
  • Investments in Growth and Employment Austria 2014-2020 – Operational Programme

National funds for Activity 1 in Austria (all four projects): 20,000,000 EUR (line ministries, City of Vienna, Lower Austria)

 

 

PROJECT  TEAM

Project leader: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna – Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
(website: www.boku.ac.at)
Address: Muthgasse 107, 1190 Vienna / Austria

Project partner(s):

  • Federal Agency for Water Management / Austria
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences / Slovakia
  • Water Research Institute Bratislava / Slovakia
  • University of Technology and Economics, Budapest / Hungary
  • EDUVIZIG / Hungary
  • University of Osijek / Croatia
  • University of Zagreb / Croatia
  • University of Novi Sad / Serbia
  • University of Nis / Serbia
  • University of Ruse / Bulgaria
  • University of Sofia / Bulgaria
  • Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest / Romania
  • GeoEcoMar / Romania
  • University of Technology Brno / Czech Republic
  • Povodi Moravy / Czech Republic
  • Ukrainian Center of Environmental and Water Projects / Ukraine
  • Odessa State Environmental University / Ukraine

 

PROJECT  ENVIRONMENT

PROJECT  CROSS – REFERENCE

SEDiment research and management at the Danube – SEDDON

 

STRATEGIC  REFERENCE

  • EU Strategy for the Danube Region
  • Danube River Basin Management Plan (ICPDR)
  • NAIADES programme
  • Joint statement on inland navigation and environmental sustainability in the Danube river basin

 

RELEVANT  LEGISLATION

  • EU – Water Framework Directive 2000
  • EU – Floods Directive 2007
  • EU – Renewable Energy Directive 2009 (Climate Change)
  • EU NAIADES / Navigation, Corridor VII, 2008
  • National law (water, nature conservation, navigation, building)

 

 

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EUSDR  COMPLIANCE

 

 

META  DATA

Data provided by: Helmut Habersack (BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna) – 07.01.2013
Last update by: Helmut Habersack (BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna) – 18.07.2017

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