CROSSSECTORAL CONFERENCE DANUBEPARKSCONNECTED (WP RIVER MORPHOLOGY & WILDISLAND) IN

CROSSSECTORAL CONFERENCE DANUBEPARKSCONNECTED (WP RIVER MORPHOLOGY & WILDISLAND) IN






Danube River Network of Protected Areas

CROSSSECTORAL CONFERENCE DANUBEPARKSCONNECTED (WP RIVER MORPHOLOGY & WILDISLAND) IN CROSSSECTORAL CONFERENCE DANUBEPARKSCONNECTED (WP RIVER MORPHOLOGY & WILDISLAND) IN CROSSSECTORAL CONFERENCE DANUBEPARKSCONNECTED (WP RIVER MORPHOLOGY & WILDISLAND) IN

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

Welcome by Dr István Nagy state 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, 27th April 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/DANUBEparksCONNECTED & Ivan 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



Project co-funded by the European Union (ERDF, IPA funds)







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