Welcome to our third annual project newsletter! 2025 was a busy year for DANUBE4all, with prominent scientific results and outputs, progress at our Demonstration Sites and inspiring citizen science collaborations and experiences!

With a total of 7 publications this year, the project has pushed new knowledge generation to the forefront. Basooma, A., Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Domisch, S., Torres-Cambas, Y., Smederevac-Lalić, M., Bremerich, V., Meulenbroek, P., Tschikof, M., Funk, A., Hein, T. and Borgwardt, F. (2025) ‘specleanr': an R package for automated flagging of environmental outliers in ecological data for modeling workflows. Ecography 2025: e08221 (ver. 1.0). https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fecog.08221 Bas

by Prof. Helmut Habersack, BOKU , Lead project coordinator DANUBE4all  is developing the first fully public, science-based Restoration Action Plan for the entire Danube River Basin - a key contribution to the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030.” The plan is the result of testing and physical restoration invervention measures in three project Demonstration Sites  along the Upper, Middle and Danube Delta as well as knowledge exchange with our Associated Regions

On 5 November, 6th- and 8th-grade students of Primary School “Bora Lazić” in Vlaška, outside Belgrade in Serbia, took part in an inspiring workshop as part of the Twinning project “Waterwise: Building Climate-Resilient Futures” . Joined by their biology teacher, Vladan Nešić, the students had a unique opportunity to meet and learn from researchers of the University of Belgrade's Institute for Multidisciplinary Research. The visiting team included Dr. Marija Smederevac-Lalić,

Marcell Szabó-Mészáros, a Scientific Associate at the Department of Water Engineering and Water Management , Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in Hungary. shares his team's progress this year on the FFR methodology being developed as part of Work Package 2. Free-flowing rivers are rivers that are not impaired by artificial barriers and are not disconnected from their floodplain. The ECOSTAT Free Flowing River (FFR) methodology is a Europe-wide standard use

Researchers from institutes in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Serbia have published two seperate papers - one relating to large...

There is much to digest and process following our three days of intensive workshopping, collaboration and discussions in Belgrade,...

Map of the 'Chilia Branch' wetlands sourced from article DANUBE4all colleagues at Odessa State Environmental University in Ukraine have...

Our partners at DANUBEPARKS recently conducted an inventory on gravel-nesting birds at both DANUBE4all and WildIsland project sites. The...