Project overview
Management of urban water resources in Central Europe facing climate change
The impact of climate change is increasingly important for the design, construction, and maintenance of water infrastructure. Scarcity of water resources due to extreme weather events and falling groundwater levels threaten our cities and regions. The MAURICE project introduces new water management solutions for cities. The partnership helps to integrate these into broader concepts on regional climate change adaptation and encourages the uptake of urban water management tools and measures.
2,92m €
Project Budget
80%
of the Budget is funded by ERDF
6
Countries
6
Regions
11
Partners
6
Pilots
Duration
Start date
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Project progress
About the project
Climate changes pose a risk to water resources availability in many Central Europe countries. The regions need to increase resilience to extreme weather events as urban droughts and floods as well as depletion of urban groundwater resources. Both falling groundwater levels in long term and the excessive amounts of water in short period become urgent risks to be tackled by adequate water management practises. The project aims to enhance the capacity of regions in Central Europe for climate change resilience in the aspect of urban water resources management by joint development of climate change adaptation solutions. The project solutions to be adopted by public administrations and water management bodies will result in a change in water management and spatial planning practices to increase the resilience to climate change in regions. The cooperation network of 11 organisations will jointly develop and implement 6 pilot actions, 8 solutions, 6 action plans and strategies to the benefit of cities, regions and related water management and water supply organisations. All the jointly developed solutions within the pilot actions will have innovative character and have not been used so far in the involved regions. As a result, the solutions adopted by public administration (already during project lifetime) will bring the change in practices of water management and spatial planning to increase the resilience to climate change in regions. In three years of cooperation we expect that undertaken activities and established cooperations will allow to increase awareness of local and regional policy makers through implementation of joint developed good practices to climate change adaptation of regions in the context of urban water management. Working at transnational level will increase the knowledge transfer to reduce barriers to effective climate change adaptation of regions.
Project partnership
Project partners

Lead partner
Central Mining Institute
Department of Water Protection
Project partner
Biuro ds. Geologii / Geology office
Total partner budget
236,496 €
Amt für Umweltschutz (Department for Environmental Protection)
Total partner budget
517,950 €
Total partner budget
256,258 €
Ústav pro nanomateriály, pokročilé technologie a inovace / Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation
Total partner budget
261,870 €
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA)
Total partner budget
369,600 €
Total partner budget
301,796 €
Groundwater - Hydrogeology
Total partner budget
243,552 €
Total partner budget
163,751 €
Department of Hydrotechnics
Total partner budget
148,391 €
ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC UTILITIES
Total partner budget
51,996 €
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