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EUROTAS: Flood Risk Mitigation Program

Type of Entry: Project
Website: http://www.hrwallingford.co.uk/projects/EUROTAS/
Duration: 01/01/1998 - 31/12/2001
Description:

THE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT EUROTAS Project

The EUROTAS project responded to the second call for proposals in the Environment and Climate programme of the Fourth Framework research programme of the European Commission under contract number ENV4-CT97-0535. EUROTAS was a 3-year project which commenced in January 1998. HR Wallingford was the coordinator for the project in collaboration with 13 other European organisations as contractors, associated contractors or sub-contractors.

OBJECTIVES:

The EUROTAS project was directed at the development and demonstration of a framework for integrated catchment modelling; for the assessment and mitigation of flood risk and at the development of appropriate modelling and management procedures.

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Scientific advances and new developments have been made on a number of fronts in the final project year, including: enhanced algorithms and procedures for building land-use scenarios; algorithms and procedures for implementing river engineering scenarios; and implementation of an integrated modelling environment and Decision Support System for flood risk assessment.

BENEFITS The EUROTAS

project focused on meeting the needs of river management authorities and aimed to provide real benefit in the future mitigation of flood losses in the EU. The involvement of river authorities in the research was a crucial pathway to future implementation of the research advances. The framework is not tied to any particular modelling system but sets protocols for communication between different modelling components.

The framework enables nationally or regionally preferred models to be incorporated in any future practical implementation of the system and so conform to the principle of subsidiarity.

Keywords: Flood, Flood Risk Management, Risk and Safety
Contact: Dr Paul Samuels
Howbery Park
OX10 8BA Wallingford, Oxfordshire
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 (0) 1491 835381
Fax: +44 (0) 1491 832233
E-Mail: p.samuels@hrwallingford.co.uk
Website: www.hrwallingford.co.uk
Partner: Danish Hydraulic Institute (www.dhi.dk)
Delft Hydraulic (http://www.wldelft.nl/rnd/intro/topic/eurotas/index.html)
CEMAGREF French Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research (www.cemagref.fr)
National Technical University of Athens (www.hydro.civil.ntua.gr)
PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, (www.rz.uni-potsdam.de)
Water Authority, Liri-Garigliano,Naples,Italy (www.tin.it)
Beta Studio s.r.I (info@betastudio.it)
CURGRI, Salerno, Italy (VILLANI@VAXSA.CSIED.UNISA.IT)
Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz (www.bafg.de)
CEH Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford,UK (www.ceh.ac.uk)
RIZA, Institute of Inland Water Management And Waste Water Treatment, Arnhem, The Netherlands (h.buiteveld@RIZA.RWS.minvenw.nl)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (www.hma.upv.es)
Financed by: European Commission 4th Framework Programme