Pilica HELP Basin, Poland, in its European landmass context
European HELP Regional Coordination Unit
We are the Regional Coordination Unit (RCU) for the European HELP Basins, namely:- Alento, Italy
- Bode, Germany
- Dee, UK; view introductory slideshare on this basin, the website of the River Dee Catchment Basin, and further slideshare on stakeholder engagement there.
- Don, UK
- Douro, Portugal and Spain; please see event information from May 2010 on this basin
- Dragonja, Slovenia; CANCELLED: the Vth International Symnposium on Transbouindary Waters Management, which was to take place 3 - 5 October 2011, previously advertised on this website.
- Eden, UK
- Emaan, Sweden
- Frome-Piddle, UK
- Guadiana, Portugal and Spain; see p8 of UNESCO HELP brochure and also the basin's Final Report from 2009
- Herault, France
- Karjaanjoki, Finland; read about the restoration of Lake Hiidenvesi within the Karjaanjoki HELP basin
- Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe, Estonia and Russia, which is part of the biggest transboundary lake in Europe. This basin comprises more than half of the 2003 report Management of transboundary waters on EU external border in northern Europe published by UNDP and partners. News August 2nd 2011: Estonian, Russian Officials To Compare Notes on Shared Waters. More at Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation website.
- Mesta-Nestos, Bulgaria and Greece; please see river basin online resources
- Motala-Strom, Sweden; please see info on publication: "Use of participatory scenario modelling as platforms in stakeholder dialogues"
- Oona-Blackwater, Republic of Ireland/ UK
- Pang-Lambourn, UK
- Pays de Savoie/ Haute Savoie, France; 'since 2002, the International Year of Mountains, La Société d'Économie Alpestre de Haute-Savoie has piloted numerous water-related activities, in collaboration with La Société d’Equipement du Département de la Haute-Savoie, as part of the experi-mental project "Water in Mountains" certified by UNESCO (HELP programme)', see SEA de la Haute-Savoie brochure on work in this HELP basin and read the "Water in Mountains" 24.9.10 Megeve Declaration.
- Pilica, Poland (see above right) and the UNESCO webpage on this HELP basin.
- Rhone, France; read about the work of project ACQWA in this HELP basin.
- Saale, Germany
- Severn, UK
- Tern, UK
- Thames, UK; view slideshare on this basin, comparing it with the Tweed
- Tweed, UK; view introductory slideshare on this basin.
- Upper Danube, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Switzerland, and France; project GLOWA-Danube is the hub for this HELP basin. Here you can find general information about the HELP basin, the impact of climate change on basin water resources, the user-friendly GLOWA-Danube Online Atlas interface (in German language) and a wealth of project reports. Also available are photos and lectures from the Regional Conference of GLOWA-Danube on 26th April 2010 in München (in German).
- Welland, UK
About the IHP-HELP Centre and HELP:
We are the RCU for Europe on Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) and also the single International Hydrological Programme (INP)-HELP Centre, under the auspices of UNESCO, globally. The two links immediately below spell out the need for the HELP progamme and the importance of its innovative, joined-up approach, and are a godd introduction to what HELP is all about.
- River basin management& the Water Framework Directive: in need of a little HELP?
- Towards Integrated Catchment Management, Increasing Dialogue
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Scotland is part of UNESCO's vital work; op ed in the Scotsman newspaper
- Connecting UK Hydrology Nationally and Internationally a March 2011 report by the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology
- Our IHP-HELP Centre Objectives and Functions
About UNESCO and HELP:
- UNESCO
- Fellow UNESCO Centres
- Motueka HELP Basin New Zealand
- UNESCO IHE
- HELP Programme
- HELP Publication
- Fellow RCUs
- UPDATED DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE 7TH PHASE OF THE IHP (2008 – 2013)
IHP HELP Symposium 2011
HELP International Symposium 2011 “Building Knowledge Bridges for a Sustainable Water Future”, Panama City, Republic of Panama, from November 21 to 24, 2011; download IHP HELP Symposium background information
Eddleston Water, part of the Tweed HELP basin, Scotland
Upper Danube - Dundee Centre Linkages:
- Dr. Daniela Jacob, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology provides regional climate modeling to the Glowa Danube project and is also works on the ACQWA project.
- Prof. Dr. Wolfram Mauser Department of Geography LMU Munich, the Co-ordinator of the Glowa Danube project developed the Danubia hydrological modeling system for the Danube basin - this system was subsequently applied for river with study basins in the upper Brahmaputra river as part of the BRAHMATWINN project.
UK and Eire HELP Basins
Please see collated information on seven of the UK and Eire HELP basins for which we received Carnegie funding to work with specifically; also, for the Tweed, Dee and Thames basins please see World Water Day 2010 curated presentations and information.LinkedIn and UNESCO
All "HELPers" from these basins are encouraged to join, and become active on, our IHP-HELP Centre LinkedIn Group: join in or up; or view discussions only. 26.5.11 LinkedIn Group Announcement: "UNESCO IHP HELP Global Symposium 2011, Building Knowledge Bridges for a Sustainable Water Future, in Panama City, Republic of Panama, from November 21 to 24, 2011; more info: please email Eda Soto, esoto@pancanal.com"We operate as part of the UNESCO 'family'; see Fellow UNESCO Centres that are complementary to our work and join the UNESCO's Friends Group on LinkedIn
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