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Our Team

Project Consortium

DANUBE4all brings together an international consortium of 48 Partners and Associated from academia, research institutions, public organizations/NGOs, and SMEs from 14 European countries.

The consortium forms a unique interdisciplinary partnership that combines expertise in applied natural sciences, governance concerning river pollution and management, social sciences concerning stakeholder engagement and human activity, and economic expertise regarding commercial activity and profitable restoration measures on the river.

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

Austria

Coordinating Institution

DANUBE4all is coordinated by the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU). The Centre focuses on research areas and competencies in the fields of renewable energy with sustainable hydropower, integrated flood risk management, the(Eco-)hydraulics, river research, engineering and morphology, and more

Hungary

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

BME is a higher education institute based in Budapest, comprising a range of faculties in Engineering, Biotechnology, Natural, and Social Sciences.

Romania

CIVITTA is a leader in management consulting in Central and Eastern Europe.

CIVITTA

The Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy carries out research in physical, chemical and biological oceanography & marine geology.

Italy

CNR-ISMAR

Austria

DANUBEPARKS

DANUBEPARKS is a non-profit association that brings together a network of protected national and nature parks, biosphere and nature reserves across 9 Danube Countries.

The Netherlands

Deltares is an independent knowledge institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface.

Deltares

Ecologic Institute conducts inter- and transdisciplinary environmental research, contributing to sociopolitical aspects of sustainability research and environmental policy.

Germany

Ecologic Institute

The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries is Germany’s largest and one of the leading international research centres for freshwaters.

Germany

IGB Leibniz

The National Institute for Research and Development of Marine Geology and Geoecology undertakes scientific research and geological and geophysical studies within the Danube/Delta & Black Sea.

Romania

GeoEcoMar

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Slovakia

GWP-CCE

GWP Central and Easter Europe based in Bratislava is an international network of organizations involved in water resources management comprises of 12 Country Water Partnerships in the region.

Bulgaria

The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences carries out research in pure and applied aspects of ecology, biodiversity, nature conservation and sustainable use of biological resources.

IBER - BAS

The University of Belgrade's

Institute for Multidisciplinary Research (IMSI) combines fundamental

and applied research in research fields including renewable energy, aquaculture, soil science and environmental sciences.

Serbia

IMSI

Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development conducts fundamental and applied research in scientific support of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (DDBR) and other wetland areas of national and international interest.

Romania

INCDD

The Ruder Boskovic is Croatia’s leading scientific institute in the natural and biomedical sciences as well as marine and environmental research.

Croatia

IRB/RBI

Ireland

MaREI, University College Cork

MaREI is the SFI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine research at University College Cork. The Centre comprises over 220 researchers focusing on defined global challenges such as the Energy Transition, Climate Action and the Blue Economy.

Ukraine

Odessa State Environmental University is a leading higher education institute for environmental, ecological and hydrometeorological education in Ukraine.

OSENU

Plymouth Marine Laboratory conducts multidisciplinary research at the cutting edge of marine science to understand the complex marine environment and help solve the challenges it faces.

UK

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

PULSAQUA advises on citizen science (CS) use, creates CS (monitoring) projects, and delivers environmental impact assessments together with citizen scientists.

The Netherlands

PULSAQUA

The Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana is a department dedicated to teaching and research, as well as the development of innovative solutions in the areas of civil and environmental engineering and geodesy.

Slovenia

UL-FGG

UK

University of Stirling

In its research, the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling seeks to understand the processes driving evolution and maintenance of biodiversity, and to predict and mitigate the future impacts of anthropogenic change.

Austria

viadonau is the Austrian waterway management company. Its tasks include ensuring safe and economic fairway conditions on the Austrian Danube as well as improving habitats in the river and floodplain areas as well as flood protection.

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Výskumný ústav vodného hospodárstva (Water Research Institute) carries out comprehensive water management research and research in the fields of hydrotechnics, hydropower, hydrology, river morphology.

Slovakia

VÚVH

Netherlands

World Fish Migration Foundation

WFMF was founded to increase the profile of fish migration issues. Since 2014, the Foundation has worked to protect freshwater migratory fish and ecosystems and to scale up the dam removal movement.

WWF Hungary preserve close-to-nature forest management, wetland restoration, sustainable agriculture and rural development, as well as preservation of protected and endangered habitats and species

Romania & Hungary

WWF Hungary

WWF Romania

WWF Romania works to protect the wild environment in the Carpathian Mountains and along the Danube.

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Austria

zsi

Centre for Social Innovation is a private non-profit institute for applied social sciences based in Vienna

In addition to the project's 26 funded partners, the DANUBE4all consortium consists of 22 associated partners from across the whole Danube River Basin. These associated partners (APs) are a very important part of DANUBE4all, as they ensure the translation of the results from science to management, support the inclusion of stakeholders and communities, as well as the further use of the results after the project lifetime.