Flood risk management 2012

Background

The WATERDISS 2.0 Summer School on FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT is organized with the aim to provide an opportunity of an intensive working together of talented young researchers, PhD students or freelancers from all over Europe with some of the leading academics, researchers and practitioners in the field.

WATERDISS 2.0 Project outline

• The implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and its daughter directives, as well as the Floods Directive, is not a “Business-as-usual approach” and constitutes an exceptional challenge to water managers and governments across Europe.
• Assessments of the current status of implementation have shown that less than 40% of water bodies will meet the Good Ecological Status in 2015.
• Meeting these objectives in the long run will require additional knowledge and know-how in terms of designing measures and management approaches.
• This knowledge is to a large extent generated by EU-funded research, but insufficiently applied to address the challenges occurring in the context of WFD implementation.

Objectives

• Disseminate the latest and more relevant results coming out from EU funded research on flood risk management and closely related topics;
• Help participants in defining relevant research topics and powerful methods in the field of flood risk evaluation and management;
• Provide a forum for talented young researchers and freelancers from various regions of the world for exchanging ideas and establishing a research and professional network;
• Meet practitioners in flood risk management and understand their needs so that future research outputs can have more significant impacts and accelerate innovation.