Conference themes:

• ​​Delivering river restoration in a changing political and economic environment: impacts, strategies and responses.
• Continues improvement: collecting and adressing lessons learnt.
• Demonstrating river restoration benefits for catchments, biodiversity and local communities.
• Strength in innovation: new research, practical techniques and best...

The symposium is an unique opportunity to celebrate rivers, to meet with river stakeholders from many countries and sectors, and to learn about challenges and opportunities on rivers across Europe. The River SYmposium will include the European RiverPrize gala at the Vienna City Hall, at which the European RiverPrize winner will be announced.

Ulrich Eichelmann of the NGO Riverwatch presented the trailer of his upcoming movie "Save the Blue Heart of Europe – The Balkan Rivers at risk" .

Just weeks after the conference he received one of the most significant environmental prize of Europe – the “Great Binding...

Quantification of the impacts of future floods on the economy in the transnational Meuse basin.

A goal within the AMICE project is the "Quantification of the impacts of future floods on the economy in the transnational Meuse basin“. In the summaries and reports, the method for flood risk calculation is developed and outlined. The results are presented both at international and regional level.

see attached for reports: http://www.amice-project.eu/en/news.php?refactu=95

Keeping Rivers Cool is a four year (2012-2016) Environment Agency led climate change adaptation project focused on using trees to keep rivers cool. Three pilot catchments have been targeted for the first two years of this project, namely: Wye, Hampshire Avon, Tyne.