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MITCH Project Partners

• Project Funders
• Project Coordinator
• Project Steering Group
• Additional Project Members

Relevant European Organisations

• Research Organisations
• Funding Bodies
• End-user / beneficiaries
  

EC Research Projects

• European Commission Fifth Framework
• European Commission Fourth Framework

Other Relevant European Projects

MITCH PROJECT PARTNERS

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Project Funders

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European Commission

• Community Research & Development Information Service
• Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development programme
• Research Directorate General

UK Environment Agency
Public body with duties to protect and improve the environment throughout England and Wales.

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• Science & Research

Project Coordinator

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HR Wallingford
Specialists in consultancy, research and software for managing the water environment.

• HR Wallingford
• Rivers

Project Steering Group

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GERMANY - GFZ Potsdam GeoForschungsZentrum
Potsdam is a non-university geoscientific research institute. It combines all solid earth science fields including geodesy, geology, geophysics, mineralogy and geochemistry, in a multidisciplinary research centre.

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ITALY - University of Padova

• Department of Land & Agro-Forestry Systems

THE NETHERLANDS - WL/Delft Hydraulics
Consulting and research institute for water-related issues.'

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• Flood Management & Hydrology

SPAIN - University of Catalunya

• Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Maritime & Environmental

UK - UK Environment Agency
Public body with duties to protect and improve the environment throughout England and Wales.

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• Science & Research

Additional Project Members

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IRELAND - University College, Dublin

• Centre for Water Resources Research

ITALY - University of Bologna

• Department of Earth Sciences, Geology & Environmental Studies

ITALY - Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente dell'Emilia-Romagna

• Servizio Meteorologico Regionale

DENMARK - DHI Water & Environment
Consulting and technology for water and environmental management

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• Flood Management

UK - Guy Carpenter
The reinsurance arm of Marsh, Inc - a leading risk and insurance services firm

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UK - University of Bristol

• Water & Environmental Management Research Centre

UK - University of Essex

• Department of Mathematics
• Propagation & Remote Sensing Group

RELEVANT EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS

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Research Organisations

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UK

• Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, CEH Wallingford
• Joint Centre for Hydrometeorological Research
• Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
• The Meteorological Office
• Hadley Centre
• Middlesex University, Flood Hazard Research Centre
• Newcastle University, Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory
• British Geological Survey

THE NETHERLANDS

• RIZA -the research and advisory body for the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management
• KNMI - the national research and information centre for climate, climatic change and seismology
• Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change
• University of Utrecht: Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research

GERMANY

• University of Kassel: Centre for Environmental Systems Research
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
• Centre for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University (Meteorological Institute)

SPAIN

• National Meteological Institute (INM)
• Meteorogical Service of Catalunya (SMC)
• CEDEX
• CEDEX Center of Hydrographic Studies
• Catalan Water Agency (ACA)
• Catalan Spatial Sudies Institute (IEEC)
• University of Barcelona: Meteorological Hazards Analysis Team

INTERNATIONAL

• World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
• WMO: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

FUNDING BODIES

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UK

• Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food - (Research & development)

SPAIN

• Spanish ministry of Science and Technology
• Regional Department of Universities, Research and Information Society

END USERS / BENEFICIARIES

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UK

• Association of British Insurers
• Association of Local Government

GERMANY

• ATV-DVWK (German Association for Water Resources & Water Management)
• German Committee for Disaster Reduction
• International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR)
• Working Group on the Federal States on Water Problems (LAWA)

SPAIN

• CLABSA (enterprise that manages Barcelona's sewage system)

EC RESEARCH PROJECTS

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION FIFTH FRAMEWORK

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Flood-Related

• European Flood Forecasting System (EFFS)
• European River Flood Occurence And Total Risk Assessment System (EUROTAS)
• Systematic, paleoflood and historical data for the improvement of flood risk estimation (SPHERE)
• Torrent hazard control in the European Alps: Practical tools and methodologies for hazard assessment and risk mitigation (THARMIT)
• Data Fusion for Flood Analysis and Decision Support (ANFAS)
• Risk of inundation - planning and response interactive user system (RIPARIUS)
• Flood Risk Assessment (FRAMEWORK)

Landslide-Related

• Impact of Large Landslides in the Mountain Environment: Identification and Mitigation of Risk (IMIRILAND)
• Debrisfall assessment in mountain catchments for local end-users (DAMOCLES)
• Monitoring urban subsidence, cavities and landslides by remote sensing (MUSCL)

Drought-Related

• Water resources management under drought conditions: criteria and tools for conjunctive use of conventional and marginal waters in Mediterranean regions (WAM-ME)

Climate-Related

• Dynamic and Interactive Assessment of National, Regional and Global Vulnerability of Coastal Zones to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise (DINAS-COAST)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOURTH FRAMEWORK

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Flood-Related

• River Basin Modelling, Management and Flood Mitigation (RIBAMOD)
• Quantification of the influence of the land surface and river training on flood conditions in the Rhine basin (LAHoR)
• Development of advanced radar technology for application to hydrometeorology (DARTH)
• Flood risk reduction by space borne recognition of indicators of excess runoff generating areas (FLOODGEN)
• Innovative application of satellite and radar technology to real time forecasting systems (WAMM)
• Earth observation based flood risk information management service (SIREN)
• Models for determining optimum level of sophistication of flood forecasting and warning systems (EUROFLOOD)
• The Development of Active, On-Line Hydrological and Meteorological Models to Minimise the Impact of Flooding (HYDROMET)
• Satellite and combined satellite-radar techniques in meteorological forecasting for flood events (MEFFE)
• New Opportunities for Altimetry in Hydrology (NOAH)
• Runoff and Atmospheric Processes for flood hazard forecasting and control (RAPHAEL)
• System for Hydrology using land observation for model calibration (SHYLOC)
• Forecasting floods in urban areas downstream of steep catchments (TELEFLOOD)
• Flood risk in mountainous areas (FRIMAR)
• Risk Of Inundation - Planning And Response Interactive User System (RIPARIUS)
• Prevention and forecast of floods (FLOODAWARE)

Landslide-Related

• Debris Flow Management and Risk Assessment in the Alpine Region (DEBRIS-FLOW-RISK)
• New Technologies for Landslide Hazard Assessment and Management in Europe (NEWTECH)
• Major Risk from Rapid, Large-Volume Landslides in Europe: the design and testing of new techniques for hazard assessment and mitigation (RUNOUT)
• Concerted Action on Forecasting, Prevention and Reduction of Landslide and Avalanche Risks (CALAR)
• Telematic-assisted handling of flood emergencies in urban areas (TELEFLEUR)

Drought-Related

• Assessment of the Regional Impact of Droughts in Europe (ARIDE)
• A decision support system for mitigation of drought impacts in the Mediterranean regions (MEDWATER)

Climate-Related

• Concerted Action Toward the Improved Understanding and Application of Results from Climate Model Experiments in European Climate Change Impacts Research (ECLAT-2)
• Water Resources: the Influence of Climate Change in Europe (WRINCLE)
• Social And Institutional Responses To Climate Change And Climate Hazards (SIRCH)

OTHER RELEVANT EUROPEAN PROJECTS

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• Cluster Initiative for Flood and Fire Emergencies (CLIFF)
• IRMA-SPONGE Umbrella Program - integrates expertise acquired in a number of ongoing projects, dealing with different aspects of flood risk management in all countries in the Rhine and Meuse River Basins.
• Operational solutions for the management of Inundation Risks in the Information Society
• National Spanish research project (HYDRADMET). Development of operational hydrometeorological techniques for flood forecasting from meteorological radar data. Design of an intelligent tool for making decisions and its application over the Besos river (Barcelona).

A Concerted Action funded through the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme (Contract: EVG1-CT-2000-20001) with additional support from the UK Environment Agency Project Reference W5C(00)19