Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North West EuropeDescription
Pilot actions to test 4 technological solutions for impacts-based flash flood risk management jointly developed and implemented in Wallonia, Emscher-Lippe, North-Holland, Province Limburg and Ireland(EN)
Pilots to test 2 responsive flood communities schemes for emergency response jointly developed and completed in Wallonia, Flanders, Emscher-Lippe, North-Holland, Province Limburg, Moselle and Ireland(EN)
Technological solutions for impacts-based flash flood risk management available for uptake in all NWE countries(EN)
Responsive flood communities schemes for emergency response at local and transnational levels available for adoption in all NWE countries(EN)
Experts of flood crisis units from at least 5 countries trained to the methodologies of the International Handbook on Emergency Management for Flood Defences (EN)
Participations in joint training schemes targeting members of crisis units, residents, students and young professionals from 6 countries to increase their capacities to deal with extreme flash floods.(EN)
Website: http://flashfloodbreaker.nweurope.eu
Thematic information
Priority:
(VI-B_NWE_1) Smart climate and environmental resilience for NWE territoriesPriority specific objective:
RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approachesPriority 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 mobilityType 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 (14)
Lead Partner: Emschergenossenschaft
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 952500037
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE 119 823 752
Department: Flood management department
Address: Kronprinzenstrasse, 45128 Essen, Germany
Department address: Kronprinzenstrasse, 45128 Essen, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Website: http://eglv.de
Total budget: EUR 2 685 968.40
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 1 611 581.04
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 1 074 387.36
Contractors:
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Name: Just Julie Julie Beerepoot
VAT registration or tax identification number: PT313075557
- Waterschap Limburg
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Name: Waterschap Limburg
Department: Programme Office for Limburg Flood Risk Management and Spatial Planning
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL857127858B01
Address: Maria Theresialaan, 6043CX Roermond, Netherlands
Department address: Maria Theresialaan, 6043CX Roermond, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.waterschaplimburg.nl
Total budget: EUR 215 809.35
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 129 485.61
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 86 323.74
- Munster Technological University
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Name: Munster Technological University
Department: Sustainable Infrastructure Research & Innovation Group (SIRIG)
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 892106673
Partner’s ID if not PIC: IE3714786EH
Address: Rossa Avenue, T12 P928 Cork City, Ireland
Department address: Rossa Avenue, T12 P928 Cork City, Ireland
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.mtu.ie/
Total budget: EUR 559 997.19
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 335 998.31
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 223 998.88
- Stadt Duisburg - Feuerwehr Duisburg
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Name: Stadt Duisburg - Feuerwehr Duisburg
Department: Crisis management and civil protection division
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 914045745
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE119554663
Address: Burgplatz, 47051 Duisburg, Germany
Department address: Wintgensstraße, 47058 Duisburg, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.duisburg.de
Total budget: EUR 327 600.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 196 560.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 131 040.00
- Université du Luxembourg
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Name: Université du Luxembourg
Department: Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT) Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) - Department of Engineering (DoE), Civil engineering, Laboratory of Geodesy, Advanced Engineering and Smart Sensor Solutions (AE3S).
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999878620
Partner’s ID if not PIC: LU19805732 | n.a. | n.a (EN)
Address: Avenue de l´université, 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Department address: Avenue de l´université, 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.uni.lu
Total budget: EUR 1 001 081.76
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 600 649.05
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 400 432.71
- Service public de Wallonie
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Name: Service public de Wallonie
Department: Regional Center for Risk Coordination (CORTEX)
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999811884
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0316381138
Address: Place de la Wallonie, 5100 Jambes, Belgium
Department address: Place Saint Aubain, 5000 Namur, Belgium
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.wallonie.be
Total budget: EUR 398 720.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 239 232.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 159 488.00
- Flemish Environmental Agency
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Name: Flemish Environmental Agency
Department: Team International Cooperation
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 953383125
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0887290276
Address: Dokter De Moorstraat, 9300 Aalst, Belgium
Department address: Dokter De Moorstraat, 9300 Aalst, Belgium
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://en.vmm.be/
Total budget: EUR 676 482.87
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 405 889.72
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 270 593.15
Contractors:
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Name: Nelen & Schuurmans
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL863509071B01
Sub-Contractors:
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Name: HAEDES BV
VAT registration or tax identification number: BE0741.412.075
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Name: Nelen & Schuurmans
- Lippeverband
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Name: Lippeverband
Department: Flood management department
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 920946422
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE 119 824 624
Address: Kronprinzenstrasse, 45128 Essen, Germany
Department address: Kronprinzenstraße, 45128 Essen, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Website: http://eglv.de
Total budget: EUR 1 378 904.43
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 827 342.65
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 551 561.78
Contractors:
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Name: FloodWaive GmbH
VAT registration or tax identification number: DE366600683
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Name: FloodWaive GmbH
- RWTH Aachen Körperschaft des öff. Rechts Institut für Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft
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Name: RWTH Aachen Körperschaft des öff. Rechts Institut für Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft
Department: Department of Civil Engineering
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999983962
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE12168980
Address: Templergraben, 52062 Aachen, Germany
Department address: Mies-van-der-Rohe Str. , 52074 Aachen, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.iww.rwth-aachen.de
Total budget: EUR 596 028.88
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 357 617.32
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 238 411.56
- Stichting Toegepast Onderzoek Waterbeheer
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Name: Stichting Toegepast Onderzoek Waterbeheer
Department: Foundation for Applied Water Research
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 882121105
Partner’s ID if not PIC: not applicable | 41151257 | Chamber of Commerce registration (EN)
Address: Stationsplein , 3818 LE Amersfoort, Netherlands
Department address: Stationsplein , 3818 LE Amersfoort, Netherlands
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.stowa.nl
Total budget: EUR 400 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 240 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 160 000.00
Contractors:
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Name: Deltares
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL800097476B01 -
Name: Kyl
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL853424275B01 -
Name: Huijskens
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL856686232B01 -
Name: Beeldtaal
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL867005889B01
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Name: Deltares
- Université de Liège
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Name: Université de Liège
Department: Urban & Environmental Engineering (UEE) Hydraulics in Environmental & Civil Engineering (HECE)
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999976105
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0325777171
Address: Place du 20 Août, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Department address: Allée de la Découverte, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.uee.uliege.be/
Total budget: EUR 798 976.73
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 479 386.03
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 319 590.70
- Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de la Moselle
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Name: Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de la Moselle
Department: Moselle departmental fire and rescue service
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 912106036
Partner’s ID if not PIC: n.a. | 28570161100029 | SIRET number (EN)
Address: Rue de Bort les Orgues, 57070 Saint-Julien-les-Metz, France
Department address: Rue de Bort les Orgues, 57070 Saint-Julien-les-Metz, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.sdis57.fr
Total budget: EUR 407 927.50
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 244 756.50
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 163 171.00
- Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier
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Name: Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier
Department: Program CING
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 950814953
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL811336487B01
Address: Stationsplein , 1703 WC Heerhugowaard, Netherlands
Department address: Stationsplein , 1703 WC Heerhugowaard, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.hhnk.nl
Total budget: EUR 1 559 658.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 935 794.80
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 623 863.20
Contractors:
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Name: TNO
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL002875718B01 -
Name: MC Advisory
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL 851566005B01 -
Name: Trimension
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL 807746563 B01 -
Name: Publieke sector Accountants BV
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL857864701B01 -
Name: Instituut Fysieke Veiligheid
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL823644510B01 -
Name: TU Delft
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL001569569B01
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Name: TNO
- Provincie Limburg
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Name: Provincie Limburg
Department: Programme Office for Limburg Flood Risk Management and Spatial Planning
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998380455
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL001737430B02 | KVK 50052969 | National identification no: 50052969 (EN)
Address: Limburglaan, 6229 GA Randwyck-Maastricht, Netherlands
Department address: Limburglaan, 6229 GA Randwyck-Maastricht, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://www.limburg.nl
Total budget: EUR 913 002.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 547 801.20
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 365 200.80
Contractors:
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Name: MC Advisory
VAT registration or tax identification number: NL 851566005B01
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Name: MC Advisory
Partners map
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
Lead partner
Project partner
Summary
Operation of strategic importance (OSI) or above EUR 5 million
Project acronym: FlashFloodBreaker
Project ID: NWE0200167
Project start date: 2024-01-01
Project end date: 2028-06-30
Project status:
ongoingRelevant linked projects:
- Limburg Water Safety and Spatial Planning Program (WRL)
- Duration: July 2022- on-going
- Exactly one year after the water crisis that hit Limburg hard in 2021, all Limburg authorities, in the presence of Minister Harbers (Infrastructure and Water Management), signed an administrative agreement between the State, the Province of Limburg and the Limburg Water Board to make Limburg more water-safe for the future. All this happened on July 14, 2022 during a meeting in Valkenburg aan de Geul, the municipality most affected by the water crisis. In 2021-22, all governments have worked hard to repair the damage caused by the floods and have looked for solutions and measures to better protect the inhabitants of Limburg in the future and to prepare them for such extremes. The Limburg Water Safety and Spatial Planning Program (WRL) will implement this joint ambition in the next 10 years. (EN) | The project FlashFloodBreaker enables the implementation of this ambition in a transnational way. This enables other partners in NWE to benefit from the programme initiated and implemented in Limburg. The Province of Limburg can benefit from joint work to implement its ambitions more rapidly and efficiently. (EN), GTI - Cross-disciplinary flood group in Wallonia (SPW)
- Duration: 2003 - on-going
- The GTI (Groupe Transversal Inondations) in Wallonia was set up in Wallonia in 2003 following the severe flooding of the early 2000s. Its main objective is to bring together regional flood experts to decompartmentalise risk management.
- Over time, the GTI has been given new tasks by the government, the main one being to coordinate the implementation of the Flood Directive in Wallonia. As such, the GTI supervises the development of the Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment, flood risk mapping and flood risk management plans. The GTI is chaired by the Regional Crisis Centre (CORTEX) at SPW. (EN) | The FlashFloodBreaker project has a number of synergies with the GTI.
- Firstly, the actions carried out as part of the GTI in Wallonia will be able to contribute to carrying out the project's tasks.
- Secondly, the GTI will facilitate the networking of relevant players and the provision of data useful to the project.
- Thirdly, the actions of the project will contribute to achieving certain objectives of the Flood Risk Management Plans particularly in terms of informing and involving citizens and this with the transnational added-value. (EN), Roadmap Crisis Flood (Roadmap Krisenhochwasser) in Emscher Lippe region (EG and LV)
- Duration: 2022 - on-going (planned up to 2037)
- In order to make the flood risk management for the Emscher-Lippe region, with a catchment area of about 4,000 km² and about 4 million inhabitants, as robust as possible also for extreme flood events, the "Roadmap Crisis Flood" (RCF) was launched after the July 2021 flood distasters in NWE. It started in 2022 and will run over a 15-year time period.
- The objectives of the RCF are to ensure the functionality of the flood protection systems up to the maximum resilience and, in case of disaster, to protect life and limb of the population, as well as to minimise material and environmental damage. The realization of these precautionary measures is a joint task of EGLV and its municipal and industrial members.
- To strengthen the resilience in the face of climate change, five fields of action are defined in the RCF. By initiating and carrying out projects in these fields of action, measures are taken to combat extreme flooding occurs:
- 1. Creation of additional retention areas
- 2. Adaptation to extreme events
- 3. Flood Warning - Next Level
- 4. Strengthening communication and cooperation.
- 5. Acting on the political framework
- (EN) | FlashFloodBreaker directly contributes to all five action fields of the “Roadmap Crisis Flood”:
- - Proposed stress tests and impact forecasts will allow to contribute to improved spatial planning (1. Creation of additional retention areas) and define adaption measures of the flood protection systems in the Emscher-Lippe region (2. Adaptation to extreme events). If the flood wave can be retained in a suitable location, less water is available to flood vulnerable areas, and damage can be mitigated or even prevented altogether.
- Extreme flood events can nevertheless exceed the capacity of protective measures. Therefore, the flood protection systems should also be adapted to this eventuality in order to avoid total failure with major damages of the flood defences.
- The solutions developed with the FlashFloodBreaker partners on real-time impact forecasts and the usage of drones can directly contribute to reaching the next-level of the flood warning system (3. Flood Warning - Next Level)
- The jointly developed organisational solutions and the training of the members of crisis unit will contribute to the action field of the RFC “Strengthening communication and cooperation”. Flood prevention and management is a joint task with distributed responsibilities among several stakeholders, but also requiring adapted individual responses by residents. Joint communication between all responsible institutions and implication of residents will be improved.
- Finally, EGLV initiatives for flood events above the design flow meets legal hurdles. Therefore, necessary proposals for improving further legal and policy frameworks at the federal and state level into the political process (action field 5: political framework) have the chance to be discussed in line to European level within FlashFloodBreaker.
- (EN), River Bandon Flood Relief Scheme - Nationally-funded Capital Flood Relief Scheme Programme in Ireland (MTU)
- Duration: 2015 - 2025
- MTU SIRIG was awarded funding for the period 2012 to 2025 for the RivBan project (multiple separate projects) to assess issues associated with flooding on the River Bandon, Ireland and assess the impacts of the completed flood relief works; the River Bandon Flood Relief Scheme (FRC) is the largest such project completed in Ireland (in 2019) under the Nationally-funded Capital Flood Relief Scheme Programme.
- MTU SIRIG has been involved in a range of further funded projects to address issues associated with catchment hydrology and flooding in Ireland.
- HydroSED - Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine in Ireland
- Duration: 2020 - 2024
- The HydroSED project involves hydrologic modelling and impact assessment of a range of small-scale ‘flashy’ catchments in Ireland.
- WaterFutureS - EPA Ireland
- Duration: 2021 - 2025
- The WaterFutureS project investigates climate change impacts, landcover changes and demographic change on river discharge and water quality in Irish river basins.
- OPERANDUM - Open-air laboratories for Nature based solutions to manage hydro-meteo risks - EU Horizon
- Duration: 2018 - 2023
- The project OPERANDUM has investigated the flow dynamics of the Dodder river basin, a river prone to flash floods.
- Drones4Vet Project - ERASMUS
- Duration: 2022-2024
- Drones4Vet is a collaborative project aiming to create a Transnational Training Programmes and an Educator Handbook on drone use for construction related activities. (EN) | The RivBan and HydroSED projects have involved both the modelling of river flow behaviour and catchment hydrology with flooding issue in the catchments studied including the Bandon and Owenabue catchments. The Owenabue catchment in particular is a flashy catchment and thus knowldege gained there will be considered in the FlashFloodBreaker project and vice versa.
- The WaterFutureS project included a study of climate change impacts on river flows which can be integrated to the FlashFloodBreaker project where there will be a focus on the response of river basins to have storm generated rainfall.
- The OPERANDUM project involved river basin flood modelling using a variety of rainfall-runoff models (physically-based, hydrological and machine-learning based). Models were applied to the River Dodder which is prone to flash flooding, there are clear synergies with the FlashFloodBreaker project where river flash flooding will be investigated and modelled.
- The Drones4Vet project focuses on the application of drones to the built environment which can inform the FlashFloodBreaker partners where drones will be applied in the flood environment. In addition, the training aspect of the Drones4Vet project has synergies with the potential training aspects of the FlashFloodBreaker project. (EN), EMFlood Resilience - INTERREG Euregio Maas-Rhein - (ULiege, IWW)
- Duration: May 2022 - Dec. 2023
- The EMFloodResilience project aims at broadening cooperation between public river management organisations in the EuregioMeuseRhine area, and advancing knowledge on flood risk modelling and management. The project is led by Waterboard Limburg, ULiege and IWW are partners and SPW is an associated partner.
- As project partners, ULiège and IWW contribute to two main objectives.
- (1) Existing flood hazard maps do not consider the effects of bridge clogging from floating debris. Using field data from the 2021 flood, new methods are being developed to take such cascading effects into account in operational flood mapping procedures.
- (2) Estimating flood impacts is an instrument for the design and prioritization of flood risk reduction measures. However, current knowledge remains limited in regard to the optimal structure of damage models and the calibration of their key parameters. The disastrous flood of July 2021 gives access to new empirical data to improve in the current flood damage models and, as such, to enhance the tools used in practice for the evaluation, prioritization, and optimization of risk reduction measures.
- (EN) | The contributions of ULiège and IWW to the FlashFloodBreaker project directly capitalize on the outcomes of the EMFloodResilience project. The recommendations for integrating cascading effects and monetary losses defined in EMFloodResilience will be piloted for the first time in river catchments and in polders within FlashFloodBreaker. (EN), Marethak project - INTERREG Euregio Maas-Rhein (SPW)
- Duration: May 2022 - Nov. 2023
- The July floodings emphasized the need to better coordinate and/or harmonize strategic, operational, and communicational practices in the emergency plans, both at the river basin level and at cross-border level. It also highlighted that civil society and citizens should be better included in the emergency planning processes, since they can be mobilized before, during and after floods.
- The aim of the MARHETAK project is to improve the cooperation between the euregional services legally responsible for crisis management and weather, water and soil services in times of a flood crisis as well as to improve the involvement of civil society in flood prevention and management.
- To do so, the MARHETAK project developed cross-national flood management solutions, such as euregional emergency management systems, improved prediction models, shared crisis materials and a euregional flood emergency guideline focusing on cross-border aspects and civil society involvement.
- (EN) | The FlashFloodBreaker project rolls out the implementation of the MARHETAK project’s developments in a wider geographical scope (North-West Europe) and into risk-affected areas that were so far not affected by flash flood disasters. FlashFloodBreaker capitalises on the result of MARHETAK to develop training and raising awareness activities intended to better prepare experts, local authorities, and civil society against flash floods.
- (EN), KAHR project - German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (IWW)
- Duration: 2022 – 2025
- The flood in July 2021 has led to an extreme impact on the Erft, Inde, Vichtbach, and Wupper rivers in North Rhine-Westphalia and on the Ahr in Rhineland-Palatinate. The KAHR project aims to use the latest scientific findings to support reconstruction measures in regions in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate devastated by the flood disaster in July 2021. Until the end of 2024, the collaborative project will work with a total of 13 partners from science and practice on issues related to climate adaptation, risk-based spatial planning and flood protection. The aim is to create concrete measures for climate-resilient and future-oriented reconstruction and rebuilding in the affected regions. In selected focus areas, concrete flood protection and spatial planning measures will be evaluated in the course of reconstruction and affected stakeholders in the areas will be advised. The findings from the focus areas will subsequently be transferred to other affected or vulnerable areas.
- (EN) | The project KAHR, focusing on climate adaptation, risk-based spatial planning, and flood protection, complements FlashFloodBreaker's objective to develop innovative solutions for predicting and preventing flash floods. KAHR's systematic approach towards hydraulic modelling of cascading effects of bridges provides a framework for the stress modelling activies within FlashFloodBreaker. This complements FlashFloodBreaker's preventive strategies by helping identify where and how to apply its novel solutions most effectively. Further, the scientific findings from KAHR can guide the development and optimization of FlasfFloodBreaker's predictive models and infrastructure designs. (EN), POLDER 2C´s project - INTERREG A 2 Seas (STOWA)
- Duration: 2019 - 2023
- An International Handbook on Emergency Management for Flood Defences has been developed in the framework of the POLDER 2C´s project and is being finalised in 2023. It is intended for the members of crisis units, flood risk experts, flood defence managers, and operational organisations involved in emergency response. The main objectives are to provide a comprehensive handbook that:
- - establishes common principles on emergency response to flood risk as well as provides best practices and illustrative examples;
- - helps the flood defence managers and the mangers involved in avoiding floods and minimising impacts to improve their organisations in the “cold” phase;
- - uses a language common and understandable to all, making it easier to help and learn from each other.
- During this process, the setting up a Community of Practice (CoP) has been initiated. (EN) | The FlashFloodBreaker gives the opportunity to test the methodologies of the IHEMFD throughout the North-West Europe area.
- Furthermore, the Community of Practices for flood emergency initiated in the 2-Seas region can be strengthened and extended to the North-West Europa area.
- (EN), DRIVER+ project - FP7 programme (HHNK)
- Duration: 2014 - 2020
- The RIVER+ project (Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience) is a project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, whose main aim is to cope with current and future challenges due to increasingly severe consequences of natural disasters and terrorist threats, by the development and uptake of innovative solutions that are addressing the operational needs of practitioners dealing with Crisis Management.
- The project started because there was no innovation in the domain of crisis management (CM) from successful R&D nor strong end-user demand. This is a problem since as societies become more complex, increasing scope and unpredictability of potential crises and faster dynamics of major incidents put increasingly stringent demands on CM.
- DRIVER+ is not about wholesale redesign of CM capabilities. Instead it is about the simultaneous launch of an ability to adapt European Crisis Management to future demands as they emerge. Therefore, DRIVER+ focuses on augmenting rather than replacing existing capabilities.
- (EN) | Some of the results of DRIVER+ project may find use within the FlashFloodBreaker project. For example, it may be possible to use some of the techniques that are developed in this project for the drones topic. Also a virtual crisis room developed in the Driver+ project that is situated in The Hague can possibly be used for the joint training activities that will be developed in FlashFloodBreaker. (EN), FIER - INTERREG North Sea Region
- Duration: project under development (Step 2 application phase)
- The objective of FIER is to increase the resilience of society and minimise the impact of climate-induced floods by developing and implementing new approaches and routines focusing on behavioural change and improved infrastructure for crisis management organisations to act before, during and after floods. (EN) | Synergies between FlashFloodBreaker and FIER can be established during the project implementation, as both projects, tackling with climate-induced floods, will run parallely, one in the North Sea Region, the other one in the North-West Europe area. (EN), HoWas2021 - German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (IWW)
- Duration: Dec. 2021 – Dec. 2023
- The goal of HoWas2021 was to evaluate the actions of civil protection actors and crisis communication both at the level of the authorities and with the affected population.Within the research, a detailed analysis and review of the communication processes and governance before, during and partly after the flood 2021 event from the perspective of water management, civil protection and disaster research, media communication and administrative sciences was systematically carried out on the basis of expert interviews, surveys, data and media analyses in order to identify deficits in coping.
- The results on the meteorological, prognostic, media and communication, sociological and administrative science performance show, with regard to the affected population in the disaster region, in all areas investigated, partly considerable deficits in the earliness and timeliness, the quality, comprehensibility and range of warnings as well as the availability of adequate data and models for heavy rain and flood forecasting. (EN) | The HoWas2021 study offers an exhaustive review of communication processes and governance before, during, and after flood events. By highlighting deficits in warning timeliness, comprehensibility, and reach, the study suggests areas for improvement that directly inform FlashFloodBreaker's communication strategy. Early warning systems, central to the FlashFloodBreaker project, can be enhanced using insights from HoWas2021, ensuring that they are more effective and comprehensible to the populations at risk.
- Moreover, the HoWas2021 study also critically analyses the availability of data and models for heavy rain and flood forecasting, something directly relevant to FlashFloodBreaker. This analysis could help to validate or improve FlashFloodBreaker's forecasting models, making them more accurate and robust. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 11 920 157.11
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 7 152 094.23
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 60.00%
Co-financing sources:
- ERDF: Amount, EUR 7 152 094.23. Co-financing rate, 60.00%.
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Infrastructure investments:
- I3.1 - Training facility for levee defence - EUR 15 000.00 - country: Deutschland (DE), town: Duisburg, street: still has to be decided., to be defined, postal_code: to be defined, Düsseldorf (DEA1), Duisburg, Kreisfreie Stadt (DEA12)
Deliverables:
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
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RCO 085 - Participations in joint training schemes, Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 081 - Completions of joint training schemes, Measurement unit:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
Programme Result Indicator:
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PSR 1: Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across borders, Measurement unit: Organisations
Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North West Europe
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-09-24
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
70 / 70 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
742 / 742 (100%)
Notes on the data