Demonstrates wetland, floodplain, coastal wetland, and salt marsh restoration solutions, including monitoring, business models, and citizen engagement tools.

Danube and Black Sea wetland systems, floodplains, coastal wetlands, salt marshes, and replication areas facing habitat loss or hydrological degradation.

Wetland managers, local authorities, protected-area bodies, restoration practitioners, community organisations, and innovation providers.

Supports freshwater ecosystem restoration, water quality improvement, habitat conservation, knowledge sharing, and replication of good practices across the Danube River Basin.

Freshwater and transitional water ecosystems, demonstration sites, and regions seeking integrated tools for better restoration decisions.

Water managers, researchers, public bodies, pilot-site operators, monitoring organisations, and regional restoration networks.

Shows how freshwater and coastal wetland restoration can deliver ecological, climate resilience, and socio-economic benefits through decision-support tools.

Degraded wetlands, floodplains, coastal wetland complexes, and areas needing blue-green infrastructure in the Danube Basin.

Municipalities, wetland restoration teams, land and water managers, local businesses, community groups, and funders.

Develops a Danube Basin Restoration Action Plan addressing connectivity loss, biodiversity decline, flood and drought pressures, and sediment management.

Upper, Middle, and Lower Danube demonstration sites, the Danube Delta, and wider river restoration planning contexts.

Policymakers, river basin authorities, scientists, SMEs, investors, local communities, and restoration site managers.

Works on sustainable sediment balance and improved water quality through research, stakeholder engagement, restoration measures, and evidence-based management tools.

Danube sediment management sites, regions preparing replication roadmaps, and river sections affected by sediment imbalance or water-quality pressures.

Regional authorities, sediment managers, research institutes, river engineering bodies, restoration planners, and associated regions.

Develops sustainable sediment solutions, including a sediment management handbook, prediction tools, monitoring infrastructure, and validation sites.

Danube River and Black Sea sediment systems, critical sedimentation and erosion points, and regions seeking scalable sediment management actions.

Water and sediment managers, local and regional authorities, monitoring bodies, technology providers, and associated regions.

Explores innovative, sustainable, and science-based sediment management solutions and establishes a Danube Sediment Lighthouse Knowledge Centre.

Danube River Basin sediment management contexts where authorities and practitioners need shared knowledge, tools, and transferable methods.

Sediment experts, river administrations, water authorities, research organisations, infrastructure operators, and policy actors.

Protects and restores habitats for migratory fish species while improving habitat connectivity, ecosystem health, and conservation across the Danube and NW Black Sea.

Migratory fish corridors, pilot sites, tributaries, habitats needing connectivity restoration, and Northwest Black Sea-linked ecosystems.

Fisheries and biodiversity authorities, river managers, NGOs, researchers, local communities, and conservation practitioners.

Safeguards and restores migratory fish populations and their habitats, supporting ecological connectivity across the Danube River Basin.

Fish migration routes, river barriers, habitat restoration areas, and demonstration zones across the Danube system.

River basin authorities, fish conservation teams, hydropower and infrastructure operators, NGOs, researchers, and local stakeholders.