SYNERGETICS – Synergies for Green Transformation of Inland and Coastal Shipping
Inland and coastal shipping face great challenges with respect to a significant reduction of greenhouse-gas and air-pollutant emissions resulting from the requirements stipulated in the European Green Deal and the Taxonomy Regulation as well as the fact that improved environmental performance has become a feature of ever-increasing importance to the sector in order to remain competitive. SYNERGETICS is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action, a particularly application-oriented collaborative project looking at ways to reduce emissions in inland and coastal shipping through retrofit solutions.
LIFE Boat 4 Sturgeon
The overall objective of this LIFE project is to help save the four remaining Danube sturgeon species from extinction: the Sterlet, the Waxdick, the Sternhausen and the Hausen.
Integrated River Engineering Project on the Danube East of Vienna – Catalogue of Measures
On the free-flowing Danube east of Vienna, hydraulic engineering measures are being implemented to stabilise the falling water levels, preserve unique habitats in the Danube floodplains and align the waterway infrastructure with the requirements of safe and economic Danube navigation. In order to achieve these goals, maintenance activities are carried out on an ongoing basis and hydraulic engineering optimisation projects are implemented.
Further projects
- started 2017
Im Rahmen des Projekts „Alpen Karpaten Fluss Korridor“ (AKFK) soll nun auch die Lebensraumkonnektivität für wassergebundene Organismen in der österreichisch-slowakischen Grenzregion geschützt und verbessert werden.
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The dam system Marchfeldschutzdamm was already built at the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century in the course of the Danube regulation. To ensure that it continues to provide effective flood protection for the population in Vienna and Lower Austria, the "Danube Flood Protection Competition" (Donauhochwasserschutz-Konkurrenz DHK) ensures reliable maintenance and rehabilitation of the flood protection facilities, thus optimising flood safety for around 30,000 citizens in 12 municipalities.
- started 2017
On the free-flowing Danube east of Vienna, hydraulic engineering measures are being implemented to stabilise the falling water levels, preserve unique habitats in the Danube floodplains and align the waterway infrastructure with the requirements of safe and economic Danube navigation. In order to achieve these goals, maintenance activities are carried out on an ongoing basis and hydraulic engineering optimisation projects are implemented.
- started 2017
By fostering joint transnational skills and competences in the areas of nautical education and public development services for Danube navigation logistics, the professional capacities in Danube navigation will be enhanced on an institutional level.
- started 2017
The overall objective of ENERGY BARGE was to foster sustainable usage of biomass for energy production in the Danube Region and to increase the share of environmentally friendly biomass transports on the Danube.
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The project provides a substantial research of the history of Austria‘s Federal Inland Waterway Administration in the first half of the 20th century in the context of its changing institutional anchoring.
- started 2015
The aim of the project was to enable an exchange of knowledge and information within the transport sector with a focus on Danube navigation and to stimulate a shift of renewable raw materials to the environmentally friendly waterway. In this context, numerous expert workshops were organised on detailed topics such as wood and cellulose, oilseeds and biodiesel, sugar, starch and bioethanol.
- started 2015
The cooperation between the Logistikum Steyr of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences and viadonau is intended to ensure that inland navigation logistics is firmly anchored in Austrian research and educational institutions. The top priority is the education and training of logistics experts with knowledge about environmentally friendly inland navigation and its networking with other modes of transport.
- started 2015
The main objective of HINT is the implementation of harmonisation actions in the field of education and training for the inland navigation in the Danube region and to strenghten the existing "Danube-Knowledge-Network" consisting of education and training institutions, authorities and inland waterway companies. It is planned to carry out joint activities like the harmonisation of nautical education and training based on European initiatives, the integration of knowledge on inland navigation into the transport and logistics education sector and the further development and deployment of the e-Learning services and platforms INeS Danube for the Danube navigation.
- started 2015
viadonau is carrying out the general rehabilitation of the flood protection dams along the Morava and Lower Dyje rivers as well as the feeder streams Weidenbach, Sulzbach, Jedenspeigenbach and Zaya on behalf of the water boards for the Morava flood protection dam Marchegg - Zwerndorf and for the Morava-Thaya flood protection dam Angern - Bernhardsthal.