Waterpraxis

Projekts WATERPRAXIS „No teorijas un plāniem uz ekoefektīvu un līdzsvarotu praksi uzlabojot Baltijas jūras stāvokli" ir Interreg IVB (Baltijas Jūras reģiona sadarbības programma) fonda projekts, kas vērsts uz Baltijas jūras kvalitātes uzlabošanu, īstenojot upju baseinu apsaimniekošanas plānus reģionā. Projekts WATERPRAXIS tiek daļēji finansēts no Interreg IVB Baltijas jūras reģiona transnacionālās sadarbības programmas 2007-2013.

11 - 12 January 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania

The final seminar of Waterpraxis took place at the Amberton Hotel in Vilnius (Lithuania) on 11-12 January 2012. About 50 participants discussed about the experiences and results gathered in the 7 Baltic Sea partner countries within the project life time.

The Waterpraxis project is already in its last months. When the project started, the first River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) were under preparation. Implementation of these plans required by the EU Water Framework Directive is now underway in all Baltic countries.

20 - 21 October 2011, Warsaw, Poland

The project partners of Waterpraxis met for their last management group meeting in Warsaw to discuss the last upcoming outputs of the project as well as the final seminar, which will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania, in January 2012. After active discussions during the meeting, the partners are now back home and keep working hard to finalise the results of the project.

The team of TU Lodz also invited Mr Janusz Ciesielski, head of Mniszkow commune, to take part in the meeting. Mr. Cielsielski is actively involved in the Polish project activities and thanked the project for its work.

20 - 24 September 2011, Hamburg, Germany

The Research- and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life Sciences” of the HAW Hamburg organized the summer course on Sustainability, River Basin Management and Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region, which took place from 20th to 24th September in Hamburg. The international course offered the opportunity to inform about up-to-date topics in the area of sustainable development, climate change and River Basin Management.

30 - 31 May 2011, Lulea, Sweden

The partners of the WATERPRAXIS project met in Lulea, Sweden, for the 5th management group meeting to agree on the workplan for the last period of the project. In the evening the project partners visited a hydro power plant with several interesting measures to secure fish migration. The partners also had the chance to see the really beautiful waterfall “Storforsen”.

05 May 2011 in Hamburg, Germany

The conference was organized by the NABU (Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V.) and supported by the WATERPRAXIS project. About 100 participants were informed about the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in the district of the river Alster, about the ecology, fauna and flora as well as ways how the open public can participate in renaturation activities.

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