Central European Flood Risk Assessment and Management in CENTROPE

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The overall aim of CEframe is to ensure sustainable integrated flood protection management in a region with densely used small-areas by different national authorities. The focus of CEframe lies in flood protection facility operation and maintenance and flood protection measures elaboration for CENTROPE, namely in the river catchments of Danube, Thaya-Morava, and Leitha. The catchments span over the territories of Austria, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary. CEframe will support the three phases of prevention, contingency and reconstruction in the cycle of flood risk management. Flood protection facilities and management strategies will be jointly assessed. Methodology for flood protection will be harmonised, considering need to keep compliance to EU Flood Directive. The different national practices of mapping and risk assessment of the partner countries will be compared and evaluated. An innovative element of CEframe is the treatment of residual risk, which is unique and new for the programme area. The support of transnational sustainable flood risk management will be carried out by the community acting over a web-based communication site, which will provide substantial information and an integrated multilingual thesaurus for the partners and decision makers. It is a sustainable result of CEframe, which will interlink the national platforms, bilateral water commissions and stakeholder organisations and will pre prepared, implemented and tested during the project.

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