enhancing flood resilience in the Danube river region

Current and future challenges

In the past years, most notably in 2002, 2006, 2013 and in the summer of 2014, parts of the Danube River Basin District were being affected by very strong or extreme flooding events. These events caused significant human and economic damages in the affected countries and communities. In 2006, 4 casualties were reported in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and the costs and damages amounted to almost 600 million Euro in the whole basin. In 2010, there were 35 casualties, and damages of around 2 billion Euro occurred, a figure which was even surpassed in 2013 (2.3 billion Euro damages, mostly in Germany and Austria; additionally, 9 casualties were also reported from Austria and Romania). The Sava River Basin in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Serbia was hit very hard in May 2014, effecting 2.6 million people, killing 79, and causing almost 4 billion Euros damage in the three countries. (Source: ICPDR, PreventionWeb)

A strategic collaboration to enhance flood resilience through innovation

Against the background of the current and future challenges have two key stakeholders established a strategic collaboration that aims to contribute to the enhancement of flood resilience in the Danube River Region by providing a platform for cooperation that facilitates discussions of relevant stakeholders.

DAREnet is a network of practitioners dealing with flood resilience in the Danube River Region, supported by a continuously evolving multi-disciplinary community of stakeholders consisting of policy makers, academics, industry and many more.

The EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) is a macro-regional strategy that seeks to create synergies and coordination between existing policies and initiatives taking place across the Danube Region. Within the Priority Area 5 Environmental Risks an improved Flood Risk Management is a core target.

By jointly organizing the 2nd Annual Practitioner Forum, DAREnet and EUSDR PA5 align efforts to foster collaboration in the field of flood resilience in the Danube Region.

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

This years Practitioner Forum will focus on the subject of "Training". The forum will introduce selected innovative approaches from practitioner organisations from the Danube Region with the aims to facilitate discussions about solutions, challenges and needs between experts and stakeholders, also to generate project ideas.

Two subjects will be tackled in 40 minutes long break-out sessions:

Session 1: Training of spontaneous volunteers and responders

Objectives of Session 1:

• trigger discussion between different organisations about their approaches towards the training of volunteer and responders

• identify good practices and training methods to improve training efficiency for spontaneous volunteers and responders

• share practices regarding the different training systems for spontaneous volunteers and responders of the Danube countries

Session 2: National, regional and international trainings

Objectives of Session 2:

• share practices and experience regarding the different training approaches at national, regional, international level;

• trigger discussion about regional level disaster preparedness and response activities, compared to national and international systems

• identify good practices at national and international trainings which can be implemented at regional level

• exchange ideas about potential standardized training requirements at regional level

YOUR HOSTS

OUR PANELISTS

Tuesday 24.11.2020 (09:30-12:00)

Wednesday 02.12.2020 (10:00-11:30)