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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.

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is offering pre-paid travel and accommodation to researchers/experts from Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to participate in the 7th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, taking place on 18-19 October 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The PLASTIC CUP is a Hungarian civil initiative of Termeszetfilm.hu nature film making society for the cleaning of the Tisza river. With the aim to call the attention to the growing problem of plastic pollution of our water resources, the Cup itself is a real 10-days environmental action towards cleaning the floodplain area of the river. In 2018 – altogether for the sixth occasion – the waste picking race took place between 4 –12 August 2018 on a 74 km long section of the river from Szatmárcseke to Tiszamogyorós. It was combined with a pre-race started in Transcarpathia (Ukraine) few days before the Cup. The international crew of the JOINTISZA boat won the competition where all together 10 tonnes of waste was collected by 400 participants.