EU-Interreg project Flood Wisdom of the Interreg Meuse-Rhine programme (NL-BE-DE)

Details

The Flood Wisdom project is an Interreg project co-funded by the EU under the Interreg Meuse-Rhine programme (NL-BE-DE)
(see www.interregmeuserhine.eu/en/projects/flood-wisdom ).
It is a strategic action plan of 11 partners and numerous associated partners in the Euroregion. Regional and local authorities and water boards in the three countries are building on cooperation and results of 35 activities within Interreg EMR project EMFloodResilience (2022-2023).
Flood Wisdom will lead to a better forecast of floods, models to respond faster to changes in weather and water across borders. Also new measurement infrastructure and systems, e.g. Flash Flood Early Warning System useful for the EMR region and beyond.
Within INBO, shared understanding by nature and river managers and knowledge base desicion making on vegetation management objectives is the goal to further develop the Decision Support Tool for the Common Meuse ( geo.inbo.be/dst_Maasbenl ) . It also helps to underpin a cross-border Vegetation Management Vision. To improve the estimates of river nature targets in the Common Meuse, aquatic and terrestrial, we use the ECODYN model, gather extra data and work together with universities, Rijkswaterstaat De Vlaamse Waterweg, Agentschap Natuur en Bos and in close consultation with numerous other partners such as the Meuse Valley Riverpark and Dutch and Flemish nature organisations such as Natuurmonumenten, Staatsbosbeheer, Natuurpunt, Stichting Limburgs Landschap,...

Status	Running
Actual start/end date	01/01/2025 - 31/12/2027

Teams

• Datamanagement
• Research Institute for Nature and Forest
• Estuaries
• Freshwater Habitats
• Monitoring and Restoration of Aquatic Fauna
• Nature Report and Advice Coordination

INBO Research theme(s)

• Protected nature
• Water
• Climate

Tags

• wetlands
• natura2000