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iNNO SED: iNNOvative SEDiment management in the Danube River Basin

The Danube River Basin (DRB) faces significant challenges associated with river sediments. In the 2021 update of the Danube River Basin Management Plan, sediment balance alteration emerged as a new sub-topic within the existing Significant Water Management Issue titled “Hydromorphological alterations.” Additionally, sectors like industry, urban sewage, and agriculture call for sediment quality evaluations throughout the DRB. However, the absence of standard sediment monitoring limits our understanding of risks.

COAST-SCAPES: Rethinking COASTal landSCAPES with climate-resilient interventions: systemic land-to-sea solutions

Coast-Scapes (rethinking COASTal landSCAPES with climate-resilient interventions: systemic land-to-sea solutions) proposes to rethink land-coast-sea systems under climate change for enhanced resilience and biodiversity gains. It seeks to develop and transfer climate resilient solutions, often discussed but seldom implemented in a systemic manner, for the land-coast-sea continuum, demonstrating co-benefits across: a) socioeconomic sectors b) geographical domains c) temporal scales.

By combining Core Pilots, to demonstrate and implement systemic solutions, Replicating Pilots, to export resilience plans and Transfer Pilots, to prove the scalability of the approach, COAST-SCAPES supposes a quantum leap for climate resilience.

GeoEcoMar co-leads the Danube Delta Replication Pilot, bringing scientific expertise and local knowledge to adapt and test systemic resilience solutions in this transboundary ecosystem. In parallel, GEM leads dissemination and training under WP5, delivering workshops, e-learning, and certification to empower administrations, practitioners, and civil society.

 

SoS2LearnDBS: Source to Sea: Leveraging Community Knowledge and Action for Restoring the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea Region

The SoS2LearnDBS – Source to Sea project extends GeoEcoMar’s long-standing research on the Danube–Danube Delta–Black Sea system within a wider Horizon Europe partnership dedicated to aquatic ecosystem restoration. The project promotes a source-to-sea approach, bringing together research, stakeholder engagement, water literacy and community-led solutions to address environmental pressures across the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea region.

SoS2LearnDBS responds to major environmental challenges affecting the Danube–Black Sea system, including water pollution, biodiversity loss, eutrophication, habitat degradation and climate-change impacts. By creating learning communities, the project enables citizens, practitioners, public authorities and experts to exchange knowledge and co-develop locally adapted solutions for sustainable water management and ecosystem restoration.

The project also includes cascade funding and technical assistance for community-led pilot actions that contribute to the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”. These actions focus on habitat restoration and protection, pollution prevention and the sustainable blue economy across five target regions: Upper Danube, Middle Danube, Lower Danube, Danube Delta and Black Sea.

Within SoS2LearnDBS, GeoEcoMar leads Work Package 2 – Support the Implementation of Community-Led Actions (Pillar 1), active from Month 1 to Month 44. This work package supports the development and implementation of community-led actions contributing to the restoration of aquatic ecosystems across the project area.

GeoEcoMar is also involved throughout the project, contributing scientific expertise, stakeholder engagement, capacity-building support and knowledge exchange activities. Through this role, the institute helps strengthen the connection between research, local communities and practical restoration actions in the Danube–Black Sea region.

 

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