Several specific tasks with specific objectives are identified within Harmoni-CA:   
   
Work Package 1 : Establishing a communication forum / Harmoni-CA Management   
Work Package 2 : Toolbox   
Work Package 3 : General Methodology and Guidance Documents   
Work Package 4 : Joint use of monitoring and modelling   
Work Package 5 : Integrated Assessment and the science-policy interface   
Work Package 6 : Co-ordination of ongoing &future RTD-activities   
   
Long-term objective:   
A necessity of the Harmoni-CA forum is that the forum for unambiguous communication, information exchange and harmonisation of the use and development 
of ICT-tools does not perish with the end date of this concerted action. It is foreseen that continuation of the Harmoni-CA forum is desirable. A final objective 
important outcome of Harmoni-CA will therefore be the formulation of a set of specifications for the continuation and extension of the communication forum. 
  
   
Innovations   
   
Harmoni-CA will be innovative on seven main issues:   
   
   1. Harmoni-CA will be the first European-wide forum bringing together the scientific and political world involved in integrated basin management by incorporating 
simultaneously natural science, socio-economics, legislation and policy experts, end-users and other stakeholders involved in integrated basin management, 
and the implementation of the WFD specifically. In doing so this forum will provide the necessary interaction between the various disciplines and stakeholders 
within integrated basin management. Thus Harmoni-CA will be innovative to both the scientific and the public-political aspects of integrated basin management 
by balancing the scientific and political aspects.   
   2. Harmoni-CA will provide the first European-wide forum in which specialists of various disciplines involved in developing and utilising ICT-tools for 
implementing the WFD may elaborate amongst between themselves approaches and solutions for the use and development of ICT-tools. These discussions are on 
integrated basin management in general and implementation of the WFD specifically.   
   3. Harmoni-CA will provide the forum for integrating existing expertise leading to generalised approaches, methods and guidelines for use and development 
of ICT-tools in integrated basin management. The expertise originates from different disciplines, countries and (international) projects, bridging gaps 
resulting from cultural differences among scientific disciplines, stakeholders and nationalities, levels of complexity and scales. Harmoni-CA will thus 
provide the proper basis for consistent river basin management plans for all types and size of (transboundary) basins.   
   4. Harmoni-CA will give guidance on tuning monitoring efforts and model data demand, resulting in an increased quality of environmental assessment and 
an increase of model quality simultaneously. Currently monitoring for state assessment and monitoring for modelling are separated branches of science, 
and do not correspond to an integrative water management approach. Guidelines on the data necessities of integrated models and appropriate models for assessment 
processes will lead to closer interactions between natural, socio-economic, technical and political sciences, increasing both the added value of models 
and the quality of monitoring.   
   5. Harmoni-CA will achieve additional innovation in on-going national and international research projects by actively searching for related projects 
and facilitating knowledge transfer.   
   6. Harmoni-CA will increase the efficiency of innovative research by providing a harmonised modelling environment in water management planning, and supporting 
the development of broadly accepted model communication interfaces.   
   7. Harmoni-CA will provide relevant information and general agreement on the necessities of future research and development for integrated basin management 
throughout Europe.