Cross-sectoral conference

DANUBEparksCONNECTED (WP River Morphology & WILDisland)

in cooperation with
Danube STREAM (WP Waterway Management)

Dunakiliti, Hungary

25th-27th of April 2017

TIME / AGENDA ITEM
Tuesday, 25th April 2017
Arrival
19:00 / Joint Dinner (optional)
TIME / AGENDA ITEM
Wednesday, 26th April 2017: Workshop Corridor Land WP5 Dry Habitats
Moderator: to be nominated
8:30 – 9:00 / Registration
9:00 – 9:10 / Welcomeby Dr István Nagystate secretary Ministry of Agriculture, Budapest
9:10 – 9:20 / The added Value of cross-sectoral cooperation
(JS Danube Transnational Programme - tbc)
9:20– 9:45 / Danube-wide cross-sector cooperation among waterway and nature conservation sector – a good practice for European rivers?
Raimund Mair, EU Commission/DG Environment tbc
9:45– 10:30 / Session Nature Conservation I
  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED: Efforts of Danube Protected Areas on river morphology and restoration
    (Balázs Tóth (Duna-Ipoly National Park/Work Package Leader) & Georg Frank(DANUBEPARKS Secretary General)
  • Key role of hydro-morphology and river dynamics for the Danube ecosystem
    (Momir Paunovic, University of Belgrade; Head of the Department of Hydroecology and Water Protection)

10:30 – 11:00 / Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 / Session Nature Conservation II
  • Impact of waterway infrastructure and waves stress on fish Ecology (Hubert Keckeis, University of Vienna)
  • Good Practice: LIFE Liberty Island (Tibor Parrag, Duna-Drava National Park)

11:45 – 13:15 / Session Waterway Management
  • Activities & expected outputs by Danube STREAM on the Interface of waterway management and nature conservation (Gert-Jan Muilerman, viadonau/Danube STREAM Project Manager)
  • Public participation and stakeholder involvement in inland waterway transport projects in Serbia (Ivan Mitrovic, Plovput)
  • Waterway Management in a National Park: good Practice from East of Vienna (Robert Tögel, viadonau)

13:15 – 14:30 / Lunch
14:30 – 19:00 / Field Trip: Danube in the Szigetköz area (Fertö Hansag National Park)
19:30 / Joint Dinner
Thursday, 27thApril 2017: Workshop Corridor Land WP6 Riparian Forest
Moderator: to be nominated
9:00 – 12:00 / Workshop Session: 3 World Cafés on concrete project deliverables of Danube STREAM and DANUBEparksCONNECTED;
three working groups work on each topic for 50 minutes, after each workshop session the group moves to the next working table
Working Table A / Waterway Maintenance Document
(Moderation: Gert-Jan Muilerman/Danube STREAM)
  • Short presentation of Platina 2 Manual
  • Expected Outputs by Danube STREAM
  • contribution by DANUBEparksCONNECTED
  • next steps

Working Table B / WILDisland – Danube Wild Island Habitat Corridor (Moderation: Georg Frank/DANUBEparksCONNECTED)
  • Short presentation of WILDisland
  • Concrete examples of cooperation
  • Possible contribution by Danube STREAM
  • next steps

Working Table C / Cooperation waterway sector & nature conservation (Protected Areas) on national levels
(Moderation: Balázs Tóth/DANUBEparksCONNECTEDIvan Mitrovic/Danube STREAM)
  • experience of cooperation
  • possible synergies & good practice
  • challenges, open questions and possible conflicts
  • guiding questions for upcoming meeting on national level in each country
  • definition national contact persons & date for meeting

10:45 – 11:15 / Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 / Report from the Working Groups, conclusions & next steps (Moderators of working groups)
(overall: Gert-Jan Muilerman & Georg Frank)
13:00 – 14:30 / Lunch & Departure

Projectco-fundedbytheEuropeanUnion (ERDF, IPA funds)