Start of the EMFloodResilience project

The EMFloodResilience project has started! Together with 11 partners in this project we will be focusing on being better prepared for the next extreme flood event.

Better prepared for the next extreme flood event

With the EMfloodResilience project we focus on becoming better prepared for the next extreme flood event and thereby prevent future loss of life and socio-economic damage. We need to know how rivers and streams react to heavy precipitation, what parameters control or influence this and what it means for specific geographical areas. The project helps develop or improve products that the authorities and water managers in the Euregion have a great and urgent need for, in order to limit the impact in the future, as in 2021. This project is co-financed by Interreg EMR, a European Union funding programme.

The EMfloodResilience project is being carried out within the context of Interreg V-A Euregio MeuseRhine and is 90% funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

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Projects

Work package 1

The first work package lays the foundation for improving meteorological forecasts.

Work package 2

The second work package focuses on how extreme precipitation leads to extreme discharges. For that reason it is of great importance to know how streams and rivers react to precipitation.

Work package 3

In the third work package, we zoom in on the cross-border river Rur, which is partly fed for water reservoirs on the German side.

Work package 4

In work package four, based on the experiences in 2021, the effects of floating debris will be mapped out and the behaviour of floating debris will be calculated with an experimental model.

Work package 5

In work package 5 we investigate the impact and effects at the moment that a flood occurs or has occurred.

Work package 6

In work package 6 the lessons are worked out at the level of a river system, opting for the cross-border river Wurm and also on some Belgian rivers.

Projects