IWRS is participating in the CRP call “Our food, countryside and natural resources in 2022” in the project “Impact of environmental stress on the health and growth of bivalve molluscs and improvements in breeding practices in the face of microplastics and climate change”.
From 2016 to 2018, nine project partners from six different Alpine countries had been working together to improve river management and better integrate and balance various human activities with ecosystem conservation. A lot of methods and practices have been analysed, further developed and applied as “adapted models” in SPARE’s five pilot areas: Dora Baltea in Italy, Drôme in France, Inn-Engadine in Switzerland, Soča in Slovenia and Steyr in Austria. The mutual exchange of data, knowledge and experiences in the pilot areas as well as the monitoring and evaluation of these processes feed into common strategies and guidelines.
Institute for Water of the Repulic of Slovenia (IzVRS) is a regional partner in the COHENET project. The project is led by Belgian consultant ARCADIS, together with Italian Consorzio per il coordinamento delle richerche inerenti al sistema lagunare di Venezia – CORILA. Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia (Spain) and Hellenic Centre...
In the framework of the project task, we prepared guidelines on the thematic priorities from the Multi-annual LIFE work program for the period 2014–2017 in the priority area Environment and efficient use of resources, and Environmental management and information for Lot 1: water, including the marine environment. The thematic priorities...
In January 2017, the international DanubeSediment project was launched. Goal of the project is to improve the sediment management in the Danube River and its tributaries. IzVRS will collaborate with other institutions in preparation of issues within work packages W2, W3, W4, W5 and W6, but will be mainly focus...
The project’s aim is to identify and compare impacts of different stressors (hydromorphological alterations, pollution, land use), acting on different spatial scales (reach, segment, catchment), on benthic macroinvertebrate and fish communities in Slovenian large rivers, as well as to analyse the comparability between field survey and remote sensing based hydromorphological...
In this project our task is to monitor the impact of hydropower plant operation on river Soča ecological status/potential, specifically on biological quality elements, hydrological, and physico-chemical quality elements according to the current legislation.
Study was done according to the 8. article of Decree on criteria for determination and on the mode of monitoring and reporting of ecologically acceptable flow. In the study the influence of the existing water abstraction on river Hudinja in Celje on aquatic assemblages was examined and the criteria for...
With the aim for ecological status assessment method development in Slovenia according to Water Framework Directive river fish types in hydroecoregions Dinarids and Po Lowland were defined. We defined fish types based on fish assemblages' similarity. The characterization of fish assemblages (fish types) is the basis for defining reference conditions...
In our research the maximum ecological potential of impoundments was defined based on biological quality elements phytoplankton and benthic invertebrates in accordance with Water Framework Directive. Our results stand as a basis for the ecological potential assessment method development.
