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INTERNATIONAL BLACK SEA ACTION DAY
30 October 2009 - International Black Sea Action Day will be celebrated on October 30-31 in Samsun, Turkey, with activities jointly organized by the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forest and the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution (Black Sea...
DANUBE WATCH 2/2009
The new issue of Danube Watch is out. Click here to read the full magazine online!
DRAFT DANUBE RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN READY
The draft of the Danube River Basin Management Plan
(DRBM Plan) is ready since May 18. It has been open for public consultation until...
UKRAINIAN TEENAGER IS DANUBE ART MASTER 2009
15 year-old Vasyl Vataman from Ukraine has won the International Danube Art Master 2009 Competition. The winning submission was created shows a miniaturist recreation of the Danube ecosystem, presents the strip of the Danube that is familiar to the artist: his village cut...
PLATINA HELD A WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATED PLANNING
As part of its commitment to the promotion of inland waterway transport, PLATINA held its second workshop to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue on waterway management. The workshop was organised by the ICPDR in Ruse (Bulgaria) on September 15-16.
DANUBE DAY 2009: SHARED WATER - JOINT RESPONSIBILITY
The joint responsibility for the river’s water and resources by all countries and communities is the focus of the 6th Danube Day on 29 June. The highlight is the ICPDR Stakeholder Forum, which will be held on 29-30 June in Bratislava. Interested stakeholders...
JOINT STATEMENT: NAVIGATION & ECOLOGY
In October 2007, a "Joint Statement on Inland Navigation and Environmental Sustainability in the Danube River Basin" was concluded and very positively received by stakeholders. On 29-30 January 2009, the responsible government authorities and interest groups had...
BOREALIS JOINS BUSINESS FRIENDS OF THE DANUBE
4 May 2009 – Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value-creating plastics solutions, has joined the Business Friends of the Danube partnership, an initiative to protect the resources and ecosystems of Europe’s second longest river, the Danube. The...
JDS2 FINAL RESULTS AVAILABLE
Vienna, 11 September 2008 – The Danube and its tributaries are becoming cleaner, the ICPDR announced today, presenting the scientific results of the Joint Danube Survey 2 (JDS2) - possibly the world’s biggest river research expedition ever.
DANUBE BOX
Any child in the Danube Basin is able to name the closest river. But it might have difficulties to say where this river flows to. And it...
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