Danube River Research and Management in Slovakia and Austria

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The goals are to establish joint research facilities, to promote the transfer of knowledge and to develop innovative monitoring and modeling tools in the SK-AT border area. By fostering knowledge transfer and capacity building between research institutions and universities, the project will lead to enhanced collaboration and exchange of expertise between research and innovation actors using newly constructed and upgraded research infrastructures (RIs). New measuring points as well as innovative measuring methods (e.g. ready-to-use boat) and modeling tools for hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphodynamics, ecological parameters and remote sensing technologies in river and wetland research will lead to high-quality, comparable data in the project sections along the Danube (border line and adjacent sections). Guidelines for field measurements and modeling will be published and available to the audiences. In Slovakia (VÚVH), the hydraulic engineering laboratory (flow rate 500 l / s), together with the Laboratory of Applied Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (ÚKE SAV), is modernized and brought up to the latest state of the art. In Austria, a waterworks laboratory with 10 m³ / s free-flowing flow is built. Scientific foundations for the improvement of management on the Danube between Vienna and Bratislava available for target groups in the areas of shipping, flood risk management, ecology, hydropower and drinking water supply are developed with the help of these research infrastructures. In addition, a close exchange of students and doctoral students as well as teachers between BOKU, VÚVH and ÚKE SAV is initiated and the research facilities are used for joint teaching and research activities even beyond the project’s duration.

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