EurAqua Projects
FutureLakes: Integrating Innovations for the Protection and Restoration of European Lakes
EurAqua partners involved: NIVA, Deltares, SYKE, UKCEH, Aarhus University (DCE)
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FutureLakes is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action supporting the Mission Restore our Ocean & Waters. Its overarching aim is to demonstrate innovative solutions needed to protect and restore lakes across Europe. This includes piloting 10 innovations in nature-based solutions, circular blue economy solutions, biodiversity-focused solutions or a combination of these approaches. Integration of these solutions is demonstrated operationally in lake basin management of six large European lakes to deliver a tested blueprint for lake protection and restoration. |
STARS4Water
EurAqua partners involved: Deltares, INRAE, UKCEH, BfG, IIS
STARS4Water is a stakeholder driven EU research project under the Horizon Europe Framework Program: Supporting STakeholders for Adaptive, Resilient and Sustainable Water Management. The ambition is to improve the understanding of climate change impacts on water resources availability and the vulnerabilities for ecosystems, society and the economy at river basin scale.
DANUBIUS-RI
EurAqua partners involved: GeoEcoMar, UKCEH and Deltares.
DANUBIUS-RI will offer a pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) to enable state-of-the-art, Research & Innovation in a source to sea perspective and will provide the tools that will deliver holistic understanding of the evolution, functioning and sustainable management of River-Sea Systems.
SpongeScapes
EurAqua partners involved: Deltares, UKCEH, IIS and UL
Extreme weather events are intensifying, while landscapes are losing their natural ability to absorb, store, and slowly release water, a critical function often described as the “sponge effect.” The EU-funded SpongeScapes project responds to this growing challenge by developing innovative strategies to restore and enhance the sponge function of soils, groundwater, and surface waters.
Mainstreaming Ecological Restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a Landscape context: INnovation, upscaling and transformation (MERLIN)
EurAqua partners involved: Aarhus University (DCE), BfG, Deltares, GeoEcoMar, NIVA, SYKE, UKCEH, WULS
MERLIN is a EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Action implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) to help deliver the environmental, societal and economic goals of the European Green Deal. Led by University of Duisburg Essen, the project brings together 47 partners from across Europe, including universities, research institutes and nature conservation organisations, as well as stakeholders for businesses, governments and municipalities.