IWRM-net Integrated Water Resource Management national & regional research programmes
Country: EU Projects
Start Date:   1/1/2006         Duration: 60 months         Project Type: Network
Contract Number: ERAC-CT-2005-026025
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Contaminated land-->funding
Water and sanitation-->Water and sanitation Overview
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
Project objectives: 
IWRM-NET aims to implement new research activities at the national and regional    
levels related to Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) with a focus on    
the Water Framework Directive.
Project Summary: 
The 17 European partners currently involved in IWRM-NET are research programme    
managers and have agreed on what should be IWRM-NET by 2010.    
   
IWRM-NET is open to new research programme managers working at national or    
regional level and dealing with Integrated Water Resource Management issues.    
Information to join the IWRM-NET community.   
   
Main IWRM-NET activities are divided into seven workpackages (WP) and include :   
   
* The development of an appropriate Knowledge Management tool (WP1 lead by OIEau)    
* The analysis of research needs (short-term WP2 lead by SNIFFER and long-term WP3 lead by the MEDD)    
* The development of joint (WP2) and trans-national activities (WP4 lead by UBA-A & PTKA)    
* The intensive linking with related initiatives and actors (WP5 lead by RIZA)    
* The dissemination of the outcomes to the stakeholders (WP6 lead by EA).    
* The project management (WP7 lead by OIEau)
Achieved Objectives: 
Parts of the project initiation has been delayed to late 2006.  However, its first international workshop was held in London in January 2006.
Product Descriptions: 
WP1: The first version of KM tool specifications (detailing the functionalities of the tool) has been presented during a small scale workshop hold in Paris 
in June 2006. The participants were researchers, NGO, research programme managers, french water agencies and IWRM-NET partners.   
   
WP2: At the launch event the discussion groups considered the various issues of    
relevance for Integrated Water Resource Management. 5 discussion groups were set    
up with the following topics as a basis for discussion;   
  Characterisation    
  Ecological Objectives    
  Pressures and Impact Assessment    
  Social and Economic Issues    
  Monitoring    
   
WP4 : Trans-national research activities   
The “Umweltbundesamt (Austria)” has - together with participants from “The    
Project Management Agency, Research Centre Karlsruhe (Germany)” and the    
“National Water Centre and Archives (Hungary)” - developed 2 different sets of    
questionnaires one to get an overview of forthcoming IWRM-related national programmes/calls that are supposed to participate within the project and another 
to gather information on evaluation/dissemination procedures of relevant national    
programmes as well as information that are necessary to start pilot calls.
Additional Information:
Project Resources:
Weblink:
http://www.iwrm-net.org/
Funding Programme(s): 
EC Framework Programme 6
Link to Organisations:

SNIFFER
Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  22/02/2007 11:11:00
Updated by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  22/02/2007 11:13:00