Our 4th General Assembly got underway last week at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). This is an important annual opportunity to get together to chart progress, refine our leading edges and identify our key pathways forward. All photos copyright DANUBE4all/E.Fitzgerald We opened with a welcome message from László Balatonyi, who joined us from EUSDR. László highlighted the importance of basin-wide, integrated planning as a principle that sits at the core of EUSDR...

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 Basooma, A.,...

by Jasper Winn In the summer of 1985, writer Jasper Winn kayaked the length of the Danube - an intrepid journey with many a twist and turn. In 2025, Jasper returned to travel the great river's length once again, this time via pedal, bus, train, and on foot. For our annual edition, he writes a special reflection on his journeys, with insights into the main changes along the river over the intervening forty years. The summer of 1985 was a good time to kayak the Danube from Germany’s Black...