Submitted by Johanna von der... on Thu, 2012-08-30 15:48
European Innovation for Sustainable Water Management: Users meet Researchers
a WaterDiss2.0 side event at the IWRM Karlsruhe 2012
The presentations as well as conclusions from this side event are now available online. Please access them by choosing the respective presentation title below. A short summary article has also been published on the website of Ecologic Institute.
The implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and its daughter directives, as well as the Floods Directive, is not a “Business-as-usual approach” and constitutes an exceptional challenge to water managers and governments across Europe. Assessments of the current status of implementation have shown that less than 40% of water bodies will meet the Good Ecological Status in 2015.
Submitted by Johanna von der... on Fri, 2012-06-01 15:28
Monday, 14.05.2012, 09:40 – 12:50
Special Session at the IWA World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy, The Convention Centre on May 13-18, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland
What are the appropriate channels for communication to transmit knowledge and ensure uptake in policy and practice? What are common pitfalls and how can these be avoided?
The WATERDISS 2.0 Summer School on FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT was organized with the aim to provide an opportunity of an intensive working together of talented young researchers, PhD students or freelancers from all over Europe with some of the leading academics, researchers and practitioners in the field.
OBJECTIVE
The Summer School was intended to:
§ disseminate the latest and more relevant results coming out from EU funded research on flood risk management and closely related topics;
