DAnube WETlands REStoration (DaWetRest) Lighthouse is designed to develop and demonstrate (pilot) concrete solutions applied on the Danube basin to address the challenges faced by its inland and coastal wetlands ecosystems’, namely on (i) biodiversity, (ii) water quality and availability, (iii) climate resilience and/or neutrality and (iv) socio-economic benefits for the local communities. These transformative and innovative solutions will be validated by local communities and main Regional and European-wide stakeholders. DaWetRest has the role to prepare and plan the replication, deployment and scaling up of the validated innovative solutions for the next mission’s phase. For this important scope, DaWetRest project proposes several strong ideas, such as (i) building and selecting interventions based on extensive and prior know-how (sibling sites and non-EU experiences), (ii) local, regional and basin scale integrated interdependent analysis of results from the planned interventions, (iii) merge DaWetRest own data, models and digital tools with existing and future ones, towards a centralized knowledge centre in the future and (iv) involve the managing authorities and a number of local actors in the entire process, from the very beginning. Thus, DaWetRest results will accelerate and generalize the deployment of innovative solutions in the second phase of the Mission. The demonstration of innovative and result-oriented solutions is organized in 3 DEMOs – DEMO Middle Danube (MD), DEMO Lower Danube (LD) and DEMO Danube Delta (DD). Each DEMO offers main intervention sites, pilots, sibling locations, replications, platforms/ services, local stakeholders engagement and methodologies to strengthen the innovation, knowledge and cooperation in and beyond DaWetRest in Danube basin and across Europe. Via a widely representative consortium as well as active cooperation (e.g. Community of Practices), DaWetRest will provide tools for a significant transformation in the Danube. STRIA is associated partner of the project.

Main data of the project:
Project title: Danube Wetlands and flood plains Restoration through systemic, community engaged and sustainable innovative actions
Project code: 101113015

Partnerek:
• Climate, atmosphere and water research institute at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – BG
• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU, FAKULTET STROJARSTVA I BRODOGRADNJE – HR H
• RVATSKE VODE PRAVNA OSOBA ZA UPRAVLJANJE VODAMA – HR
• JAVNO PREDUZACE VOJVODINASUME, PRETROVARADIN
• OPCINA DRAZ HR
• CENTAR KOMPETENCIJA DOO ZA ISTRAZIVANJE I RAZVOJ HR
• Sportsko ribolovna udruga Odra Velika Gorica HR
• Poljoprivredna strucna sluzba Sombor RS
• Jadranski Inovacijski Centar HR
• Duna-Dráva Nemzeti Park Igazgatóság (Duna-Dráva National Park Directorate) –
• South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency (STRIA) – Hungary
• Skola za osnovno obrazovanje odraslih – RS
• UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU FAKULTET TEHNICKIH NAUKA – RS
• SDRUZENIE ASOCIACIJA NA DUNAVSKITE OBSTINI-DUNAV – BG
• Regionalna Inspekciia po okolnata sreda i vodite Ruse – BG
• Municipality of Silistra – BG
• Municipality of Tutrakan – BG
• Slivo pole municipality – BG
• UNIVERSITY OF RUSE ANGEL KANCHEV – BG
• Scortel Ltd – BG
• DONAU TRANSIT Ltd – BG
• DPP Rusenski Lom – BG
• Regional academic center of BAS Burgas – BG
• INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE DELTA DUNARII – RO
• MINISTERUL MEDIULUI, APELOR SI PADURILOR – RO
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI – RO
• GEOSTUD – RO
• DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE AUTHORITY – RO
• SC COMPLEX DELTA SRL – RO
• NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION APELE ROMANE – RO
• INSTITUTIA PREFECTULUI JUDETUL TULCEA – RO
• Primaria Murighiol – RO
• FEDERATIA ORGANIZATIILOR PRODUCATORILOR – DE
• PESTE DIN DELTA DUNARII – RO
• STUF DELTA PRODUCTION – RO
• Asociatia „Ivan Patzaichin – Mila 23” – RO
• PANNON EGYETEM – UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA – HU
• UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA GHEORGHE ASACHI DIN IASI – RO
• UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA A MOLDOVEI – MD
• NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE IGOR SIKORSKY KYIV POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE – UA
• BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES – FR
• SLOVENSKA POLNOHOSPODARSKA UNIVERZITA V NITRE – Sk
• Institutul de Ecologie si Geografie – MD
• GGT-Gabinete de Planeamento e Gestão do Território, Lda – PT
• INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS – EL
• INOVA+ – INNOVATION SERVICES, SA – PT
• STEINBEIS INNOVATION GGMBH – DE

Project budget in EUR: 9,398,213. €
Grant programme: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based
Project Duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2026