Project News and Events

15 April 2019 The final Hungarian DriDanube event, the National Drought Seminar was held on 15 April 2019 at OMSZ in Budapest.	Read more
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.	Read more
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	Read more
13 November, 2018 Invitation: DriDanube national training and consultation with stakeholders about optimal drought management on 3 December, 2018 at OMSZ	Read more
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	Read more
4 November, 2018 DriDanube - regional training on drought risk and impact assesment 10-12 October, 2018 Bucarest, Romania	Read more
12 July 2018 Invitation and Guide for Hungarian DriDanube Reporting Network	Read more
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:	Read more
May 2018 Subscribe to project newsletter	Read more
28 May 2018 DriDanube - National reporting networks	Read more
09 April 2018 DriDanube - Let’s talk about drought	Read more
05 October 2017 DriDanube - WHY, HOW and WHAT we do	Read more
03 October 2017 DriDanube - Drought User Service - an innovative tool for drought management	Read more
19 June 2017 Hungarian DriDanube National Briefing Seminar was held on 12th June 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.	Read more
19 May 2017 National Briefing Seminars held in 10 partner country in May and July 2017	Read more
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	Read more

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.

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

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Work Packages

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)