Joint flood risk governance and management in the Axios/Vardar cross border area

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Greece - Republic of North Macedonia

Date of latest update: 2023-03-10

Description

Description (EN):

The project FLOOD SHIELD focuses on the transboundary Axios/Vardar river that has the potential to provide a wide range of benefits, i.e. environmental, social, economic and strategic, but also disservices such as flood risks to the regions it flows through. Numerous challenges hamper effective cross borer cooperation in general and cooperation on transboundary floods management in particular, thereby increasing vulnerability to floods at the cross border areas of Greece and Republic of North Macedonia. The project main objective is the minimization of the cross-border flood risks and disasters at the Axios/Vardar river basin by strengthening the cross-border cooperation, organisationally, technologically and socially. In particular, the project combines different aspects to achieve the following sub-objectives: 1. Strengthening the flood risk governance at the Cross-border area in order to better assess, plan, monitor, prevent and react against floods; 2. Improving the technical capacity for effective cross-border flood risk assessment, monitoring, preparedness and response; 3. Promoting the role of citizens and voluntarism groups in the civil protection actions in case of flood disasters to protect themselves and actively involved in prevention and reaction activities. The implementation of the project's activities and the delivery of their anticipated outputs will contribute to the achievement of the project's specific objectives as follows: -The strengthening of the flood risk governance will be achieved through: a) the establishment of a Joint flood risk management group that will improve and pool together the capacity of authorities, services and volunteer groups, b) the establishment of operational cross border centers, c) the definition of the procedures needed to overcome the barriers in the cross border cooperation, d) the elaboration of a cross border flood reaction strategy and e) the training of the staff of the authorities, services and volunteer groups participating in the interventions during floods. -The improvement of the technical capacity for effective cross-border flood risk assessment, monitoring, preparedness and response will be achieved through: a) the Flood Early Warning System development, b) the flood risks and vulnerable sites mapping, c) the accessibility modeling of means and equipment in the neighboring territories and, d) the Incident Management and Collaboration Platform development for Civil protection and other stakeholders to train, prepare and respond in case of flooding, -The promotion of the role of citizens and voluntarism groups will be achieved through awareness raising, information and promotional campaigns that will include events, informal education in schools, audio and video materials etc.

Website: http://www.ipa-cbc-programme.eu

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Governance, partnership

Specific Objective: Prevention, mitigation and management of natural disasters, risks and hazards

Thematic Priority:

(b) Protecting the environment and promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management through, inter alia: joint actions for environmental protection; promoting sustainable use of natural resources, resource efficiency, renewable energy sources and the shift towards a safe and sustainable low-carbon economy; promoting investment to address specific risks, ensuring disaster resilience and developing disaster management systems and emergency preparedness

Partners (1)

Lead Partner: Decentralised Administration of Macedonia & Thrace

Address: 54655 Thessaloniki, Greece

Legal status: n/a

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Decentralised Administration of Macedonia & Thrace

Joint flood risk governance and management in the Axios/Vardar cross border area

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Summary

Project name (EN): Joint flood risk governance and management in the Axios/Vardar cross border area

Project acronym: FLOOD SHIELD

Project start date: 2022-07-22

Project end date: 2023-12-15

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 474 450.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 253 282.50

Co-financing sources:

IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 1 253 282.50.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Cross-border flood response strategy report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.floodshield.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-08

Document date: 2023-11-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Final Report on the vulnerability analysis for the sites located in the Axios River basin

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.floodshield.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-08

Document date: 2023-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Report on the investigation and mapping of the existing monitoring systems at the Axios cross-border river basin

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.floodshield.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-08

Document date: 2023-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Assessment of legal & institutional bottlenecks in crossborder cooperation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.floodshield.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-08

Document date: 2023-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Greece - Republic of North Macedonia

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2023-03

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

63 / 63 (100%)

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

63 / 190 (33.16%)

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Data was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2019-05-15, 2022-07-19 and 2023-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.ipa-cbc-programme.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-30 and 2023-01-05.

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Joint flood risk governance and management in the Axios/Vardar cross border area

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