Management of urban water resources in Central Europe facing climate change

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Central Europe

Date of latest update: 2025-03-13

Description

Description (EN):

Climate changes (CC) pose a risk to water resources availability in many CE countries. The regions need to increase resilience to extreme weather events as urban droughts and floods as well as depletion of urban groundwater (GW) resources. Both falling groundwater levels in long term and the excessive amounts of water in short period become urgent risks to be tackled by adequate water management practises. The project aims to enhance the capacity of regions in CE for climate change resilience in the aspect of urban water resources management by joint development of climate-adaptation solutions. The project solutions to be adopted by public administrations and water management bodies will result in a behavioural change in water management and spatial planning practices to increase the resilience to climate change in regions. Key innovation is provided through the integral consideration of water management issues being part of regional and city related wider climate change adaptation concepts and the comprehensive water management approach. The cooperation network of 11 organisations will jointly develop and implement 6 pilot actions, 8 solutions, 6 action plans and a managament strategy to the benefit of cities, regions and related water management and water supply organisations. All solutions will have innovative character and have not been used so far in the involved regions. The transnational cooperation of the partners from various regions is needed to gather exemplification of key aspects to be tackled and related regional expertise. Working at transnational level will increase the capacity and enhance the knowledge transfer to reduce barriers to effective climate change adaptation of regions. We expect that the network and best practise demonstrated will increase awareness of local and regional policy makers encouraging further implementation of jointly developed strategy, action plans and solutions to climate change adaptation in the context of urban water management.

Actual Achievements (EN):

Networking was an essential part of professional information & ideas exchange in the first year of the project. The partners have gained knowledge on climate change scenarios and their implication to local scale water management. They have organized the first local meetings with authorities and stakeholders in order to duly involve institutions responsible for the development and implementation of the action plans in their pilot areas. All pilot actions were successfully launched. In Milan and in Stuttgart, the main achievement was the delineation of the pilot actions designs and the development of the characterization activities needed to achieve the necessary understanding of the systems. In Jaworzno, the concept of pilot action was developed enabling the realization of a blue and green infrastructure investment in next period. In Novy Bydzov, the Water Management Study how to use the rainwater in the city with proposal of the locations and measures for reducing the consumption of drinking water was completed. In Varaždin, the status and trends of groundwater quality were determined and a monitoring system was created to control the effects of climate change. In Ljubljana, the executive design for the implementation of the investment of a retention and drainage system was completed. The essential boundary and design conditions for the granting of consents and the realization of climate-resilient retention and infiltration systems were defined on the basis of extensive discussions with regional interest groups. The basis for cost and efficiency analysis was established. Indicators of spatial planning that play an important role in maintaining groundwater recharge and preserving groundwater quality were defined. The cooperation between partners was a key for all pilot actions and enabled a fruitful design of the actions to be implemented. For better addressing the target groups, the first project film was produced and distributed via project communication channels.

Project outputs: MAURICE network for enhancing CC resilience in urban and regional water management - ResiWM(EN)
Transnational Water Management strategy and action plans for the six municipalities /regional areas considered by the project(EN)
Pilot Action design and implementation for Stuttgart-Feuerbach(EN)
Pilot Action design and implementation for Lombardy(EN)
Tools for groundwater behavior forecast as support for public authorities’ decision making(EN)
Guideline to ensure groundwater availability and climate change resilience by adaptation measures(EN)
Pilot Action design and implementation for Novy Bydzov(EN)
Pilot Action design and implementation for Jaworzno(EN)
Guideline for public administration to implement the beneficial rainwater management (RM)(EN)
Guideline for the selection of rainwater treatment technologies for further use(EN)
Guideline for designing blue-green infrastructure for rainwater retention and groundwater recharge(EN)
Pilot Action design and implementation for Ljubljana(EN)
Pilot Action design and implementation for Varaždin(EN)
Use of the infiltration capacity map from field investigation to planning, consent and decision-making(EN)
Surveying urban water mass flows and contaminants to set resilient drainage and infiltration targets(EN)
Website: https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/maurice/

Thematic information

Water management Urban development

Priority: (VI-B_CE_2) Cooperating for a greener central Europe

Priority specific objective: RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility

Type of intervention: 058 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: floods and landslides (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Główny Instytut Górnictwa

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999516616

Partner’s ID if not PIC: PL6340126016

Department: Department of Water Protection

Address: Plac Gwarków, 40-166 Katowice, Poland

Department address: Plac Gwarków, 40-166 Katowice, Poland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.gig.eu

Total budget: EUR 368 599.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 294 879.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 73 719.80

Grad Varaždin

Name: Grad Varaždin

Department: ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC UTILITIES

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 905471236

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR13269011531

Address: TrgkraljaTomislava, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia

Department address: Trgslobode, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.varazdin.hr

Total budget: EUR 51 996.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 41 596.80

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 10 399.20

Geotehničkifakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Name: Geotehničkifakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Department: Department of Hydrotechnics

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 950825138

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR16146181375

Address: Hallerovaaleja, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia

Department address: Hallerovaaleja, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.gfv.unizg.hr

Total budget: EUR 148 391.15

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 118 712.92

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 29 678.23

JAVNO PODJETJE VODOVOD KANALIZACIJA SNAGA d.o.o.

Name: JAVNO PODJETJE VODOVOD KANALIZACIJA SNAGA d.o.o.

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI64520463

Address: Vodovodna cesta, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Infrastructure and (public) service provider

Website: http://www.vokasnaga.si

Total budget: EUR 163 750.99

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 131 000.79

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 32 750.20

Contractors:

Name: Univerza v Ljubljani, FGG
VAT registration or tax identification number: SI98643339

Geološki zavod Slovenije

Name: Geološki zavod Slovenije

Department: Groundwater - Hydrogeology

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999466370

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI23064145

Address: Dimičevaulica, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Department address: Dimičevaulica, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.geo-zs.si

Total budget: EUR 243 551.53

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 194 841.22

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 48 710.31

Consorzio di Bonifica Est Ticino Villoresi

Name: Consorzio di Bonifica Est Ticino Villoresi

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 913650664

Partner’s ID if not PIC: IT05203430961

Address: Via Ariosto, 20145 Milan, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Infrastructure and (public) service provider

Website: http://etvilloresi.it

Total budget: EUR 301 796.38

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 241 437.10

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 60 359.28

Contractors:

Name: Dott. Geol. Fabio Baio
VAT registration or tax identification number: 03769680160
Name: Ing. Daniele Recalcati
VAT registration or tax identification number: 06191110961
Name: Georicerche S.r.l.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 02352180216
Name: Digital Drop S.r.l.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 12146620963
Name: Stefano Gomarasca
VAT registration or tax identification number: 13081570155
Name: Aexi S.r.l.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 02121320176
Name: Edilgornati S.r.l.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 08852530156

Politecnico di Milano

Name: Politecnico di Milano

Department: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA)

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999879881

Partner’s ID if not PIC: IT04376620151

Address: Piazza L. Da Vinci, 20133 Milano, Italy

Department address: Piazza L. Da Vinci, 20133 Milano, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.polimi.it

Total budget: EUR 369 600.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 295 680.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 73 920.00

Technická univerzita v Liberci

Name: Technická univerzita v Liberci

Department: Ústav pro nanomateriály, pokročilé technologie a inovace / Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999856213

Partner’s ID if not PIC: CZ46747885

Address: Studentska, 46001 Liberec, Czech Republic

Department address: Studentska, 46001 Liberec, Czech Republic

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.tul.cz

Total budget: EUR 261 870.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 209 496.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 52 374.00

Město Nový Bydžov

Name: Město Nový Bydžov

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 938533492

Partner’s ID if not PIC: CZ00269247

Address: Masarykovo náměstí, 504 01 Nový Bydžov, Czech Republic

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.novybydzov.cz

Total budget: EUR 256 258.40

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 205 006.72

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 51 251.68

Contractors:

Name: Photon Water Technology s.r.o.
VAT registration or tax identification number: CZ04568095

Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Name: Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Department: Amt für Umweltschutz (Department for Environmental Protection)

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 996731746

Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE147793909

Address: Marktplatz , 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Department address: Gaisburgstraße, 70182 Stuttgart, Germany

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.stuttgart.de

Total budget: EUR 517 950.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 414 360.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 103 590.00

Contractors:

Name: Prof. Kobus und Partner GmbH
VAT registration or tax identification number: DE 168331418
Name: igi Consult GmbH, Westheim
VAT registration or tax identification number: DE 211 615 267
Name: schawa media GmbH, Stuttgart
VAT registration or tax identification number: DE147854672
Name: et environment and technology
VAT registration or tax identification number: DE813307020

Gmina Miasta Jaworzna

Name: Gmina Miasta Jaworzna

Department: Biuro ds. Geologii / Geology office

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 950410754

Partner’s ID if not PIC: PL6322010013

Address: Grunwaldzka, 43-600 Jaworzno, Poland

Department address: Św. Wojciecha, 43-600 Jaworzno, Poland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.um.jaworzno.pl

Total budget: EUR 236 496.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 189 196.80

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 47 299.20

Contractors:

Name: F.H.U. ALIAS Robert Leniartek
VAT registration or tax identification number: 6321379696
Name: A-STER W.Araminowicz,M.Marszał
VAT registration or tax identification number: 9451351284
Name: EM4 PRACOWANIA ARCHITEKTURY
VAT registration or tax identification number: 7381277847

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Lead partner

Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): Management of urban water resources in Central Europe facing climate change

Project acronym: MAURICE

Project ID: CE0100184

Project start date: 2023-04-01

Project end date: 2026-03-31

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

Rehabilitation of the old ecological burden in the area of the former Kovoplast company and the neighbouring inner city of Novy Bydzov (EN) | PP4 succeeded with a request for support from EU fund Operation Programme to realise the project Rehabilitation of the old ecological burden in the area of the former Kovoplast company (2020-2023). The cleaning of the polluted aquifer will increase the possibilities of future use of so far unusable groundwater and increase the resilience of the city to climate change. PP4 will use MAURICE project results in the other EU-supported project, therefore good synergy is expected with no overlapping. (EN), CC - ISAP (BMBF-Project, Federal Ministry of Education and Research) (EN) | Providing strong synergies by ISAP-Project's complementary function of generating scaled and CC-related meteorological data. The results of the ISAP-project will provide methodological input to A1.3 as well as specific data and experiences for A2.2. There will be effective synergy with no overlapping, as PP3 will use the climate change data from ISAP project as an input for numerical modelling of the pilot area planned in MAURICE. (EN), Project Areté (ETVilloresi, Fondazione Cariplo) (EN) | The project aims to promote sustainable agricultural practices in the area of Italian Pilot Action (A2.3). The irrigation network has been valorised aiming to improve water distribution and faunistic conservation. The experience coming from Project Areté will be used to design and perform effective field tests of adaptation measures in MAURICE (A2.1, A2.3), therefore effective synergy is expected with no overlapping. (EN)

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 920 259.45

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 336 207.55

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 336 207.55. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Infrastructure investments:

I2.1 - Integrated water resources measurements - EUR 88 000.00 - country: Italia (IT), town: West of the city of Milan, street: Several Municipalities, -, postal_code: -, Lombardia (ITC4), Milano (ITC4C)
I3.1 - Blue-green infrastructure (BGI), Jaworzno, Poland - EUR 144 000.00 - country: Polska (PL), town: Jaworzno, street: Św. Wojciecha, 100, postal_code: 43-600, Śląskie (PL22), Sosnowiecki (PL22B)
I4.1 - Tivoli test site - EUR 24 600.00 - country: Slovenija (SI), town: Ljubljana, street: Park Tivoli, Celovška cesta, postal_code: SI-1000, Zahodna Slovenija (SI04), Osrednjeslovenska (SI041)

Deliverables:

Signed agreement by public project partners
Vision and future framework
Report on procedures and mechanisms for strategic and action planning
Concepts for prognosis and assessments of climate change related pressures on groundwater
Best practice report in adaptation measures regarding CC
Integrated water municipal and regional management strategy and action plans
Assessing and managing the risks of climate change on local and regional groundwater resources
Assessing and managing the risks of climate change on local and regional groundwater resources
Project movie
Joint report for pilot actions design in Stuttgart-Feuerbach and Lombardy
Joint report for pilot actions monitoring in Stuttgart-Feuerbach and Lombardy
Report on hydraulic characterisation of the pilot area
Groundwater availability in S-Feuerbach considering CC scenarios (Report)
Effects of climate change on groundwater use in S-Feuerbach (Report; link to O2.1)
Adaptation measure field test and hydraulic & agricultural characterisation of the pilot area-Report
Numerical groundwater/crops model considering CC scenario – Model tool
Effects of climate change on agricultural practice, irrigation and groundwater levels-Report
Analysis of different scenarios and related adaptation measures (Report)
Guidelines for water resource management approaches
Documentation of closing workshop
Joint report on the gaps in current measures of resilience to urban flooding and urban droughts
Minutes from transnational workshops for joint design of pilot actions in Novy Bydzov and Jaworzno
Report from joint progress check visits at pilot actions in Novy Bydzov and Jaworzno
Water Management Study of perspectives on the use of rainwater in conditions of the City Novy Bydzov
FIT4USE concept –set of treatment and storage technologies for rainwater use in the City Novy Bydzov
Technical documentation of solution for selected localities in Novy Bydzov
Concept of pilot investment in Jaworzno
Technical design and construction of demonstrative investment in Jaworzno
The report from monitoring of demonstrative investment in Jaworzno
Handbook for increasing the benefits of rainwater management – draft version
Handbook for increasing the benefits of rainwater management – final version
Social media presentations
Minutes of public presentations
Joint report on development of novel approaches to transfer innovation into practice
Minutes of transnational workshops for joint design of pilot actions in Ljubljana and Varaždin
Report from joint progress check visits at pilot actions in Ljubljana and Varaždin
Report on water mass surpluses and deficits affecting GW quality
Report on the pilot test of resilient urban infiltration definition
Report on identification of spatial regulation elements to promote resilient urban water quality
Report on water regime changes affecting GW quality
Report from testing the effects on GW quality by optimization of infiltration
Regulation elements for resilient GW quality on the area of heavily modified water regime
Optimization of urban drainage and resilience of groundwater quality (booklet)
Survey of urban drainage efficiency for resilience of groundwater quality
Indicators of climate change resilient urban drainage
Clipping on CC adapted drainage measures in regulation elements
Conferences on CC adapted drainage measures in regulation elements
Promotional material on CC adapted drainage measures in regulation elements

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

EuropeanGreenDeal MAURICE project will contribute to EU Green Deal by addressing an existential threat to Europe, which is climate change and environmental degradation. MAURICE will propose solutions and mitigation strategy to overcome these challenges. MAURICE will support Central Europe urban areas to be more resilient to climate change in the aspect of water resources management.
TerritorialAgenda2030 MAURICE will contribute to “A Green Europe” priority in the aspect of “Healthy environment” by proposing local and regional action plans and joint strategy for increasing their resilience to climate change in the context of water resources management.MAURICE will support “A Green Europe” by indicating possible mitigating and adaptive actions to prevent the impact of climate change in Central Europe urban areas.
EUStrategyDanubeRegion Partners from DE, CZ, SI, HR will contribute to priority area (PA) “Environmental Risks” by addressing the challenges of water scarcity and droughts in line with the Danube River Basin Management Plan as well as elaborating the climate adaptation strategy. MAURICE also will address the PA “Water Quality” in the context of achieving the management objectives set out in the Danube River Basin Management Plan.
EUStrategyAdriaticIonianRegion Partners from HR, SI, IT will contribute to “Environmental Quality”pillar by addressing threats to terrestrial biodiversity in the context of climate change and its impact on the urban area of EUSAIR.
EUStrategyBalticSeaRegion Partners from PL and DE will contribute to policy area “Spatial Planning” aiming at achieving territorial cohesion perspective in the Baltic Sea Region by 2030. A well-integrated and coherent approach of MAURICE will struggle with the global challenges and will address the solutions preventing the impact of climate change in the urban area of EUSBSR.
EUStrategyAlpineRegion Pilot action in DE, IT and SI will contribute to EUSALP objective 3 “Ensuring sustainability in the Alps”, especially in policy area: “Alpine risk management including risk dialogue, to tackle potential threats, such as those of climate change”. An integrated, joint-developed and innovative urban water resources management approach based on the relevant cooperation between partners within MAUIRCE will be a substantial support to tackle with the impacts of climate change in urban areas in EUSALP.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:

Delivered output indicator(s):

(RCO87) Organisations cooperating across borders: 19.0

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSBSR

EUSBSR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

EUSBSR Degree of compliance:

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSALP

EUSALP Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

EUSALP Degree of compliance:

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSDR

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSAIR

EUSAIR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Central Europe

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2025-03-31

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100 / 100 (100%)

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

1 017 / 1 074 (94.69%)

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Management of urban water resources in Central Europe facing climate change

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