Call for Associated Regions Results

The DALIA project announces its Rivers Revived Call for Associated Regions winners!

Meet the selected regions:

1. Georgia - Development Gori Municipalityand Tana and Tedzami Protected Landscape Management Agency
2. Ukraine - Kotlovyna Starostinsky district
3. Ukraine - MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT (ME INSTITUTE FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT)
4. Bosnia & Herzegovina - Municipality of Olovo
5. Bosnia & Herzegovina - Public Scientific Research Institution “Institute for Protection and Ecology of the Republic of Srpska”
6. Portugal - Município da Figueira da Foz
7. Portugal - Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Coimbra
8. North Macedonia - Municipality of Kicevo
9. Tunisia - Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer
10. Israel - Israel Nature and Parks Authority

With a budget of €100,000, selected regions will be supported in using DALIA’s findings and expertise to develop strategic roadmaps, action plans, and projects for restoring river ecosystems in their areas. They will receive extensive scientific and technical assistance, customized to help tackle specific challenges and showcase the viability of innovative restoration methods. Each region will be paired with a comparable demonstration site to encourage mutual learning through structured knowledge-sharing sessions, interactive workshops, and a dedicated twinning platform.

The participating regions will carry out a range of restoration activities such as enhancing ecological systems, ecosystem monitoring and repair, floodplain reconnection, improving river connectivity, rehydrating catchments, managing sediment, cleaning river litter, and linking ecosystems. These efforts will play a vital role in advancing the project's goal to align with the EU’s ambitions for ecosystem restoration.

Stay tuned for more info!

Rivers Revived Call for Associated Regions Overview

¹Associated regions are areas with ecosystems that can benefit from the demonstration activities undertaken in Mission projects, (e.g. neighbouring regions and/or regions in a different sea basin) and/or less-developed regions, with the need to build capacity to implement the innovative solutions to improve management of sediments in a river basin. Associated regions should be located in EU Member States/Associated Countries other than those that are part of the project consortium. (ERRIN)

Call Overview

DALIA's Open Call presented a unique opportunity for Associated Regions to participate in groundbreaking initiatives aimed at environmental, societal, and economic transformation. The Call aligned with DALIA's primary objectives, focusing on two key aspects: knowledge transfer and solution scalability of solutions for the Danube River catchment.

DALIA expects to fund up to 10 projects from at least 5 different regions. The total amount of financial support to third parties allocated by the coordinator is 1,000,000 EUR.

The maximum amount of financial support to each third party was limited to 100,000 EUR.

The DALIA Rivers Revived Call aims to transfer the knowledge from DALIA pilot regions (DPs) into new pilot regions with similar conditions, by engaging local and regional authorities to select one of the DPSs regions and replicate it thus demonstrating the transferability, feasibility, and scalability of such solutions for the Danube river.

The expected outcomes of DALIA's Open Call encompass a wide array of actions, aimed at enhancing water management and adaptation measures. Through validated concepts for new monitoring approaches, early-warning systems will be strengthened, ensuring proactive responses to water-related challenges. Innovative modeling, leveraging machine learning and neural networks, will enable comprehensive analysis of fate and transport across varying temporal and spatial scales in soil, sediment, and water, fostering more informed decision-making processes. Additionally, the monitoring of sediment flow will be optimized through diverse methods, enhancing our understanding of suspended sediment dynamics and sediment transport mechanisms.

The Open Call also aims to drive the expansion of reuse cases in drought-affected areas through the adoption of novel nature-based solutions technologies, contributing to greater resilience in water management. Moreover, it seeks to promote the increased use of Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) principles for sustainable water management and climate change adaptation, fostering collaboration among researchers, water management professionals, decision-makers, and the broader public, thereby fostering a more integrated and holistic approach to managing water resources.

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Contact

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