The issue highlights how restoration is increasingly shaped by integrated catchment thinking, stakeholder and community engagement, nature-based solutions, and the practical exchange of knowledge between projects, practitioners and river basin organisations.

Welcome to the latest edition of the ECRR newsletter! In this issue, discover major updates in river restoration across Europe, including new partnerships, upcoming events, and funding opportunities.

This proposition presents the core activities of the ECRR, aims to implement, in the period 2025-2027, as well as a number of activities needed to sterngthen and professionalize its organisation and processess. During this timeframe, a detailed work programme beyond 2027 willbe develloped.

The newsletter presents three remarkable collaborative efforts restoring Europe's rivers:
- the Gipuzkoa Masterplan;
- the European Open Rivers   Programme;
- the Lower Dnipro self-restoration.