3rd Harmoni-CA Forum & Conference - (5-7 April 2006, Osnabrück)

Introduction

Harmoni-CA combines conferences and workshops in order to improve the efficiency of meetings on items related to the WFD implementation. The conference sets a framework on the topics with two plenary sessions. The opening session on the first day will define the main issues from the policy’s perspective on the issues of monitoring and public participation. The closing session on the third day will bring together both issues relevant for the conclusions as well as the defining of future activities.
The forum on the second day will consist of two elements:

• Parallel sessions on issues where both regional water managers and developers can exchange experiences

• A market place under the form of extended posters sessions. This will give the participants the opportunity to learn, discuss and meet on specific tools.

As part of the parallel sessions, two project workshops will be held on an issue strongly related to the conference focus, which is open for the conference attendants:

• EuroLimpacs invites water managers during the conference to the WB3 workshop on The Decision Support System in the EU Research Project EuroLimpacs. Stakeholders and end-users’ requirements for DSS in Water Management?

  For more information, please contact Thomas Horlitz.

• HarmoniQuA invites water managers and modellers to a workshop on MoST. The workshop is held in English and German.

  For more information, please contact Ingo Heinz

Preceding the conference, one Harmoni-CA Workshop is held:

• The 3rd Harmoni-CA/WP2&WP4 Workshop will give audience to water managers also before the conference to exchange experiences on their monitoring programmes.

  For more information, please contact harmoni-ca.wp2@biomath.ugent.ac.be or lfj@geus.dk or follow this link: WP4/WP2 Workshop 3

For these workshops only limited space is available. The first results will be directly fed into the discussion of the conference.

Conference Programme

Wednesday, 5^th April 2006

13.00 – 14:00 Registrations

14.00 – 15.45 Opening / Plenary room

Chair: Geo E. Arnold, RIZA, The Netherlands, (Harmoni-CA WP1)

Welcome by Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, Germany, (Harmoni-CA, WP5)

• Setting the scene: Introduction of the main conference issues from the water management perspective

  Keynote addresses:

  • Philippe Quevauviller, European Commission, DG Environment - Introduction to WISE- Water

  • Jasmine Bachmann, ICDPR, Austria - Public Participation in the Danube River Basins

  • Tim Lack, WRC, UK The involvement of the European Environmental Agency in water monitoring in Europe

15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-18.15 Forum discussions on 4 parallel sessions on:

• International perspectives on public participation [PP1] / Room 1

  Chair: Erik Mostert, TU Delft, The Netherlands

• Gerhard Nagl, Danube Environmental Forum, Germany - Public Participation in Bavaria, with a look at the Danube River Basin and several German "Bundesländer" - Patterns, Problems and Deficiencies of Stakeholder Involvement and Public Participation from an Environmentalist Perspective

• John Colvin, Environment Agency, UK -How have the lessons learned from involving stakeholders shaped the River Basin Planning Strategy for England & Wales

• Bert Enserink, Delft University, NL - Public Participation in The Netherlands.

• Monitoring network design - making use of models [MM1] / Room 2

  Chair: Alex Sonnenborg, GEUS, Denmark, (Harmoni-CA, WP4)

• Lisbeth F. Jørgensen, GEUS, Denmark, (Harmoni-CA, WP4) - State of the art and future developments in monitoring programmes in EU. Lessons learned from workshops

• Glenn George, CEH, UK - Using automatic monitoring to quantify the impact of extreme events on rivers, lakes and reservoirs

• Veronique Adriaenssens, Environment Agency, UK - Optimisation of biological monitoring for the Water Framework Directive

• One click- one solution?- Which decision support systems are applied or applicable for support of the WFD implementation? [DSS1] / Room 3

  Chair: Carlo Giupponi, University of Milaan, Italy

• Jan Owinski, Polish Academy of Science, Poland - The design and use of decision analytic tools in the DSS for integrated catchment management: an experience from TRANSCAT Project

• Ahmed Nasr, University College Dublin, Irland - Multi-criteria and Decision Support Systems in support of the Water Framework Directive

• Pasky Pacual, US EPA - Uncertain Cause at the Crossroads of Science and Law

20.00 Conference Dinner

Thursday, 6^th April 2006

9.00-11.00 Forum discussions 4 parallel sessions on:

• Agriculture as an example for integration of different policy fields into water management [EA1] /Room 1

• Chair: Julio Berbel, Universidad De Cordoba, Spain and Matt Hare, Seecon Deutschland GmbH

• Guido Bazzani, IBIMET, Italy - WFD and agriculture: the case study of Piave River Basin in Italy

• Stig Borgvang, NIVA, Norway - EuroHarp-Toolbox

• Nils Bull, Copenhagen County, Denmark - An interactive tool for cost efficient policy recommendations