Partner and Funding

Coordinating Beneficiary:

• viadonau – Österreichische Wasserstraßengesellschaft mbH (Austrian Waterway Company)

Associated Beneficiaries - Austria:

• Nationalpark Donau-Auen GmbH (Donau-Auen National Park)
• Umweltverband WWF Österreich (World Wide Fund for Nature, Austria)

Associated Beneficiaries - Slovakia:

• Bratislavské regionálne ochranárske združenie (BROZ) - Bratislava Regional Association for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development
• Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Prírodovedecká fakulta (PRIFUK) - Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences
• Národné lesnícke centrum (NLC) - Slovak National Forest Center

Co-funding by the European Union has been granted in the frame of the funding programm LIFE Nature and Biodiversity.

Dynamic LIFE Lines Danube - LIFE18 NAT/AT/000733
Total costs of the LIFE project: 10.730.658 EUR
EU-funding: 6.438.393 EUR (funding rate 60%)

The measures are also financed nationally by the Austrian and Slovakian partners' own funds brought into the project.

Further more the project is financially supported by the following organisations:

• Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung – Abteilung Wasserbau (Federal Government of Lower Austria - Section Hydraulic Engineering)
• Niederösterreichischer Landesfischereiverband (NÖLFV)* (Fishery district associations of Lower Austria)
• NÖLFV - Fischereirevierverband II* (Fishery district association II of Lower Austria)

*funded by fishing license fees.