1st Advisory Committee (kick-off)

Programm

09:00

Welcome by the moderator (Hélène Masliah-Gilkarov, Technical Expert – Public Participation & Communication at the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River)

09:10

Welcome by the host (Gert-Jan Muilerman, Head of department at viadonau)

09:15

Welcome address:

• Inés Ayala Sender, European Coordinator for the Rhine-Danube Core Network Corridor (invited)
• Alain Baron, Team Leader at the European Commission, DG MOVE
• Euripides Sakellariou, Project Officer at the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
• Vera Hofbauer, Director General at the Austrian Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK)
• Birgit Vogel, Executive Secretary at the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR)
• Gerhard Gussmagg, Managing Director at the Rhenus Port of Krems

10:00

Overview of FAIRway Danube II (Andreas Bäck, Executive project manager at viadonau)

10:10

Presentation of the work-programme of FAIRway Danube II:

• Reports on the Good Navigation Status (Viktoria Weissenburger, Team leader at viadonau)
• Tools for monitoring of Good Navigation Status (Romeo Soare, Head of branch at the Lower Danube River Administration Galati)
• Pilot of flexible infrastructure elements for enhancing low water resilience
  • Intermediate results in Austria (Michael Kalb, Project manager at viadonau)
  • Approach within FAIRway Danube II (Bozhidar Yankov, Secretary General at the Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River)
• Upgrade of infrastructure for mooring operations
  • Works on the Danube-Black Sea Canal (Moren Abdurafi, Project Manager at the Administration of the Navigable Canals )
  • Works in Austria, Studies in Austria, Slovakia and Croatia (Andrea Haringova, Project manager at viadonau)

11:10

Feedback from the Advisory Committee

11:20

Coffee break

11:50

Panel discussion on flexible infrastructure elements

• Inés Ayala Sender, European Coordinator for the Rhine-Danube Corridor (invited)
• Romeo Soare, Head of branch at the Lower Danube River Administration Galati
• Michael Kalb, Project Manager at viadona
• Irene Lucius, Conservation Director at WWF Central and Eastern Europe
• Ralf Jina, Head of Sales & Logistics at the First-DDSG Logistics Holding (invited)

12:50

Save the Date: 2nd Advisory Committee of FAIRway Danube II together with final Advisory Committee of “FAIRway works!” and “Preparing FAIRway 2 works in the Rhine-Danube Corridor” on 26.11.2024 in Vienna

Directions for technical visit and closure of first part of kick-off meeting (Hélène Masliah-Gilkarov, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River)