Tuesday 12 June ´07
All day Arrival participants and registration
20:00 Welcome reception (for FLAPP partners only)
Wednesday 13 June ´07
8:30 Registration and coffee for participants
9:00 Opening address by Antonio Serrano Rodríguez - General Secretary for the Territory and Biodiversity, Ministry of Environment, Spain
- Welcome by José Luis Alonso Gajón
President of Ebro River Basin Organisation
- Welcome by Rogue Gistau Gistau
President of EXPO Zaragoza 2008
9:30 Introduction to conference programme and presentation of FLAPP project results
Ed Eggink, President of FLAPP network
9:45 Presentation of FLAPP policy recommendations
Luitzen Bijlsma, chairperson FLAPP Policy Working Group
10:15 Officially handing over FLAPP products by Alfred Evers (representative of Lead Partner Euregion Meuse-Rhine)
to Hans Blokland (representative of the European Parliament)
10:30 Reaction by Hans Blokland
Vice-president of the Environment Committee of the European parliament
10:45 Coffee/tea break
11:15 Introduction of sub-products FLAPP network
Ed Eggink, president of FLAPP network
11:30 Thematic observations of FLAPP network:
- cross border flood mapping
- wetlands and flood management
- flood information systems
- public awareness tools
Chairpersons component working groups interviewed by Annelieke Laninga-Busch
Project manager FLAPP network
12:15 Discussion with people in the audience about applicability of FLAPP results
13:00 Different types of water management projects supported under INTERREG
Nicolas Singer, project coordinator at INTERREG IIIC West Zone Joint Technical Secretariat
13:30 Lunch
15:00 Project market: all afternoon
15:30 First round of thematic sessions:
a) Flood prevention and spatial measures (part 1)
Projects: CEPRI, SAFER
b) Sustainable water management
Projects: LAKEPROMO, ENMAR, SDF
c) Information systems (part 1)
Projects: NOAH, Mekong River Commission, Climate change projects
d) Public awareness and involvement
Projects: AWARE, Chain of Safety, RiverCross
16:15 Coffee / tea break
16:30 Second round of thematic sessions
e) Flood prevention and spatial measures (part 2)
/ Financial aspects of water management
Projects: EXCIMAP, IRMA / TEN (Meuse Works)
/ Project: Equilibrium
f) Movie: Al Gore: An inconvenient truth…
g) Information systems (part 2)
Projects: Risk-EOS (GMES), FLOODMED
h) PR session: how to communicate the FLAPP messages to stakeholders?
17:15 Project market café
18:00 End of first conference day
19:00 Visit to EXPO ’08 site
20:30 Dinner with Spanish music
Thursday 14 June ´07
9:00 Introduction second conference day
Ed Eggink, president of FLAPP network
9:10 Picking fruits of the FLAPP network and follow-up ideas
Annelieke Laninga-Busch, project manager FLAPP network
Dorothea Palenberg, Blue! Advancing European Projects
9:30 Overview of the European funding landscape
Tako Popma, Haute Europe
10:00 How to get from a good idea to a project application?
Dorothea Palenberg
10:15 Coffee/tea break
10:30 Introduction to carousel
Dorothea Palenberg
10:45 Presentation of future project proposals
Project initiators in and outside of FLAPP network
11:30 Carousel to create partnerships and prepare workshops
12:15 Introduction to workshops
Dorothea Palenberg
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Workshops to work out project proposals in further detail
15:30 Presentation of workshop results and next steps
Workshop chairpersons and Dorothea Palenberg
16:30 Conference closure
Ed Eggink, President of FLAPP network
17:30 Start of informal closing activity for FLAPP partners only
Meeting point in hotel lobby
Friday 15 June '07
9:00 Meeting study visit
9:30 Introduction to Head quarters Ebro River Basin Organisation and
explanation of SAIH monitoring system
10:00 First round of visits
10:30 Second round of visits
11:00 Plenary discussion/question time
12:00 Closure study visit |
