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15 April 2019
The final Hungarian DriDanube event, the National Drought Seminar was held on 15 April 2019 at OMSZ in Budapest.

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4 April 2019
DriDanube news about Danube Drought Risk Assessment

Here you can freely download the R E D software package which is developed by Tamás Szentimrey (Varimax Bt) to common drought risk assessment of DriDanube countries.
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29 March 2019
Invitation: DriDanube National Drought Seminar which will take place on 15 April 2019 at OMSZ in Budapest, Hungary

 
12 December, 2018
DriDanube national training and consultation about optimal drought management was held on 3 December, 2018 at OMSZ in Budapest, Hungary

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13 November, 2018
Invitation: DriDanube national training and consultation with stakeholders about optimal drought management on 3 December, 2018 at OMSZ

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6 November, 2018
Training course on drought risk assessment
6–8 November, 2018 Budapest, Hungary
Organizers: Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ) and Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Center (DRMKC) of the European Commission

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4 November, 2018
DriDanube - regional training on drought risk and impact assesment
10-12 October, 2018 Bucarest, Romania

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12 July 2018
Invitation and Guide for Hungarian DriDanube Reporting Network
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17 June 2018
DriDanube Drought Watch 2018 section started in June 2018, where you can follow development of drought in the Danube region. The bi-weekly Regional Drought Bulletin you can reach on this link:
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May 2018
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28 May 2018
DriDanube - National reporting networks
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09 April 2018
DriDanube - Let’s talk about drought
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05 October 2017
DriDanube - WHY, HOW and WHAT we do
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03 October 2017
DriDanube - Drought User Service - an innovative tool for drought management
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19 June 2017
Hungarian DriDanube National Briefing Seminar was held on 12th June 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.
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19 May 2017
National Briefing Seminars held in 10 partner country in May and July 2017
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07 February 2017
The Kick-off event of Drought Risk in the Danube Region (DriDanube) project take place on 16 March 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Introduction

Water scarcity and droughts hit the Danube region frequently and have had large impacts on the economy and welfare of the people. Despite damages in last decades, drought is still not considered as an issue of high priority and people are not aware of its impacts. The main objective of DriDanube project is to increase the capacity of the Danube region to manage drought related risks. The project aims at helping all stakeholders involved in drought management become more efficient during drought emergency response and prepare better for the next drought.

From reactive to proactive drought management

Currently the drought management is reactive, dealing mainly with losses and damages, cooperation between key actors is missing and formal legislation mostly does not exist. Proactive approach on the other hand counts on drought prevention, mitigation, vulnerability reduction, planning and preparedness. Focus hence shifts from recovery to protection, i.e. from crisis management to risk management.

Expected outcomes

One of the main products of the project will be Drought User Service, which will enable more accurate and efficient drought monitoring and timely early warning. The service will integrate all the available data, including large volume of the most recent remote sensing products.

DriDanube will harmonize the currently heterogeneous methodologies for risk and impact assessments, based on the existing achievements in participating countries and on EU guidelines in the frame of the Civil Protection Mechanism.

The current slow reactions during drought will be sped up with the  improved decision-making process in all parts of the drought management cycle (monitoring–impact assessment–response–recovery–preparedness) which will strengthen capacities of the stakeholders (policy, professional, end users) at different levels. This will lead to an increased culture of preparedness throughout the Danube region.

DriDanube’s main expected result is improved drought emergency response and better cooperation among operational services and decision making authorities in a Danube region on national and regional level.

Partners

General information

Start date: 01-01-2017

End date: 30-06-2019

Budget in Euro

Overall: 1.974.750

ERDF Contribution: 1.434.757,5

IPA Contribution: 243.780

ENI Contribution: 0

Call number

Call 1

Priority

Environment and culture responsible Danube region

Specific objective

Improve preparedness for environmental risk management

Library

As soon as the project achieves an output, it will be published in this section.

Check the project webpage for more information

Partners

Slovenian Environment Agency

Lead partner

andreja.susnik@gov.si

Slovenia

EODC Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring GmbH

ERDF partner

christian.briese@eodc.eu

Austria

Global Change Research Institute CAS

ERDF partner

mirek_trnka@yahoo.com

Czech Republic

Hungarian Meteorological Service

ERDF partner

bihari.z@met.hu

Hungary

Vienna University of Technology

ERDF partner

wolfgang.wagner@geo.tuwien.ac.at

Austria

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Work Packages

Work packages

Deadlines

Deadlines

 

National contact points

  • Zita Bihari, Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest
  • Sándor Szalai, University of Szent István, Gödöllő
  • ASP - Ministry of Agricultural, Budapest

 

Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA)