HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

Date of latest update: 2023-08-11

Description

Description (EN):

River corridors represent one of the most used and modified landscape elements in the Alps. They provide key ecosystem services (ES), but currently many of them are at risk or significantly degraded. In order to ensure their conservation or restoration, the effects of human uses on ES need to be understood and tackled. In particular, river hydromorphological processes have a key role to ensure habitat maintenance and ecological connectivity and are strongly related to strategic societal challenges such as flood risk mitigation, renewable energy production, biodiversity conservation and ensuring recreational values of Alpine valleys. Suitable approaches are needed to clarify the links between uses, hydromorphological processes and ES availability and to make ES more transparent to the public, support conflict resolution, and design cost-effective mitigation and restoration measures. The project will develop a conceptual framework, currently not available, and operational tools, comprising novel methods, to integrate ES in Alpine river basin planning and management, with a special focus on factors affecting river hydromorphology, including sediment continuity, while ensuring integration of local and basin scales. Particular care will be devoted to identify actual planning, management, operational activities where the proposed approach can be applied and to collaborate directly with relevant actors, both public and private, in order to ensure proper transfer of project outputs and thus a tangible real-scale impact. In order to ensure integration and transferability of the approach to all Alpine countries and to effectively tackle management issues with a clear regional/cross-border component, the consortium includes a transnational network of policy makers, public officers and practitioners in charge of river planning and management at different levels, as well as scientific experts on river hydromorphology and ecology and NGOs.

Achievements (EN):

River corridors in the Alpine Space provide key ecosystem services, but are also threatened by human interference. In order to ensure their conservation or restoration, the effects of human uses on ecosystem services need to be understood and tackled: HyMoCARES focused on river hydromorphological processes, as they are prevalent to ensure habitat maintenance and are strongly affected by societal challenges such as flood risk mitigation, renewable energy production, and biodiversity conservation. For this purpose, the project partners developed a conceptual framework and operational tools to integrate ecosystem services in Alpine river basin planning and management. By doing so, they could enhance the protection, conservation and ecological connectivity of Alpine freshwater ecosystems.

Website: http://www.alpine-space.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Level of integration of the ecosystem services approach in the policy systems of the Alpine Space

Expected Outputs (EN):

A functioning transnational cooperation structure, improved knowledge and validated operational approaches enabling better integration of ES in Alpine rivers management. Effects of restoration measures representative of several Alpine contexts assessed through project tools and widely disseminated. The HyMoCARES ES approach is integrated in the implementation process of pertinent EU strategies and legislation, e.g. WFD, Floods, Habitats, and in daily river management by relevant target groups.

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Sustainable management of natural resources Waterways, lakes and rivers

Specific Objective: Enhance the protection, the conservation and the ecological connectivity of Alpine Space ecosystems

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06d) Protecting and restoring biodiversity and soil and promoting ecosystem services, including through Natura 2000, and green infrastructure

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Agenzia per la Protezione civile - Agentur für Bevölkerungsschutz

Department: Autonomous Province of Bolzano

Address: Viale Druso-Drususallee 116, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.provinz.bz.it/zivilschutz/

Total budget: EUR 355 195.00

ERDF budget: EUR 301 915.75

Universität für Bodenkultur Wien

Name: Universität für Bodenkultur Wien

Department: Department of Water Management, Hydraulic and watercourses research

Address: Muthgasse 107, 1190 Wien, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.wau.boku.ac.at/en/iwhw/

Total budget: EUR 340 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 289 000.00

Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Name: Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Department: Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)

Address: Rudower Chaussee 17, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.igb-berlin.de/

Total budget: EUR 263 285.00

ERDF budget: EUR 223 792.25

Bundesamt für Wasserwirtschaft, Institut für Wasserbau und hydrometrische Prüfung

Name: Bundesamt für Wasserwirtschaft, Institut für Wasserbau und hydrometrische Prüfung

Address: Severingasse 7, 1090 Wien, Austria

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.baw-iwb.at

Total budget: EUR 75 750.00

ERDF budget: EUR 64 387.50

Landesfischereiverband Bayern e.V.

Name: Landesfischereiverband Bayern e.V.

Address: Mittenheimer Straße 4, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://lfvbayern.de

Total budget: EUR 100 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 85 000.00

INŠTITUT ZA VODE REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE

Name: INŠTITUT ZA VODE REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE

Department: Sector for Inland Waters

Address: Dunajska 156, 1121 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.izvrs.si

Total budget: EUR 221 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 188 190.00

Ufficio dei corsi d’acqua

Name: Ufficio dei corsi d’acqua

Department: Environment and Land Use Department, Republic and Canton of Ticino, Switzerland

Address: Via Franco Zorzi 13, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ti.ch/corsi-acqua

Total budget: EUR 22 320.00

Autorità di Bacino Distrettuale delle Alpi Orientali

Name: Autorità di Bacino Distrettuale delle Alpi Orientali

Address: Piazza Vittoria 5, 38122 Trento, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.alpiorientali.it

Total budget: EUR 205 975.00

ERDF budget: EUR 175 078.75

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - ETH Zürich

Name: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - ETH Zürich

Department: Institute of Environmental Engineering

Address: Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ethz.ch

Total budget: EUR 99 700.00

Département des Hautes-Alpes-Service Ressources Naturelles et Risques

Name: Département des Hautes-Alpes-Service Ressources Naturelles et Risques

Department: Natural resources and hazard service

Address: Place Saint Arnoux CS 66005, 5008 Gap Cedex 8, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hautes-alpes.fr

Total budget: EUR 204 450.00

ERDF budget: EUR 173 782.50

Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Name: Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Department: Service for Torrent control

Address: Via Trener 3, 38121 Trento, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.provincia.tn.it/

Total budget: EUR 200 137.50

ERDF budget: EUR 170 116.88

Centro Italiano per la Riqualificazione Fluviale

Name: Centro Italiano per la Riqualificazione Fluviale

Address: Viale Garibaldi 44/A, 30173 Mestre, Italy

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.cirf.org

Total budget: EUR 259 015.00

ERDF budget: EUR 220 162.75

Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement et l’agriculture

Name: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement et l’agriculture

Department: ETNA Research Unit

Address: rue Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1, 10030 F-92761 Antony, France

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.irstea.fr

Total budget: EUR 249 420.00

ERDF budget: EUR 212 007.00

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University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Federal Agency for Water Management, Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Calibration of Hydrometrical Current-Meters

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Bavarian Fishery Association

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Ticino Cantonal River Management Agency

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Eastern Alps River Basin District

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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ETH Zurich

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Département des Hautes-Alpes

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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PROVINCIA AUTONOMA di TRENTO

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Italian Centre for River Restoration

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Civil protection Agency

HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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Summary

Project name (EN): HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

Project acronym: HyMoCARES

Project start date: 2016-11-01

Project end date: 2019-10-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 596 647.50

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 103 433.38

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 103 433.38.

Documents

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Videos / films

HyMoCARES: how to manage our rivers? Rivers Ecosystem services are key for our lives. (in English)

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-29

Languages: en

Reports

Fluvial remote sensing for monitoring physical effects of stream restoration projects

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Bedload tracing

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Sediment replenishment of highly altered alpine gravel bed rivers

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Channel widening

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Monitoring of hydromorphological restoration: open problems and perspectives

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Multi-scale concept for sediment-based river restoration

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Hydromorphological river restoration tools

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

HyMoCARES sectoral guidelines and checklists – Report n°1 for FRANCE

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-04-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

HyMoCARES sectoral guidelines and checklists – Report n°2 for FRANCE

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2019-04-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-08-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

64 / 64 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

752 / 752 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.alpine-space.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2022-11-20 and 2024-03-11.

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HydroMorphological assessment and management at basin scale for the Conservation of Alpine Rivers and related Ecosystem Services

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