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The European Environment Agency (EEA) published on-line the EEA Briefing "Addressing climate change adaptation in transnational regions in Europe", which gives an up-to-date state of play of how European countries and macro-regions are working together in adapting to climate change impacts, some of which are considered climate change ‘hot spots’ – most vulnerable to changes.

Danube Transnational Programme Thematic event on Water management – flood prevention and environmental risk, Natural and cultural heritage, Energy was held in Prague on 14th December 2018. The meeting focused on the 3rd Call of the DTP and its specific objectives related to PA2 (energy), PA4 (water pollution) and PA5 (environmental risks).

The 14th Steering Group meeting of European Union Strategy for Danube Region (EUSDR) Environmental risks priority area (PA5) took place in Budapest, organized by the Hungarian coordination of the EUSDR on 5-6 December 2018. Beyond the delegates of the Danube countries, also Observers (ICPDR, GWP CEE, Carpathian Convention, EUSDR PA4), the newDanube Strategy Point and the representative of the DTP Joint Secretariat took part the meeting. Furthermore, 10 PA5 related projects were presented by the relevant managers.

Workshop on hydro-morphological measures under the Floods and Water Framework Directives was held between 4-5 December 2018 in Budapest, supported by Hungarian coordination of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region Environmental risks Priority Area.

DAREFFORT project held its first event in Budapest on 13-14th of September in 2018 which combined the public kick-off meeting and the first partner meeting with the so called "Data Providers Conference". The three-year project – realized from more than 1.35 million euros – aims at synchronizing and unifying the hydrological data information system for the water catchment area of the Danube.

The 7th ASEM Sustainable Development Dialogue on “Sustainable and Integrated Water Management in the 21st century – addressing imminent challenges” and the 3rd Eurasian Water Conference was held in Budapest at the second week of September 2018 and brought together water management experts from the Danube region and Asia.