HYDROCARE - Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions:
A Spatial Development Project on the water resource and the hydro-meteorogical events

The project HYDROCARE - Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions has been approved in the 3 rd call of the INTERREG IIIB - CADSES neighbourhood programme of the EU . CADSES stands for Central, Adriatic , Danubian and South-Eastern European Space. The project will last 2 years starting January 1 st 2006, its budget is about 2.5 M€ and it involves 11 institutions from 6 countries ( Italy , Germany , Greece , Poland , Romania , and Slovakia ). The project is coordinated by an Italian Lead Partner, the Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Fisica delle Atmosfere e delle Idrosfere - CINFAI (in English: National Consortium of Universities for the Physics of Atmospheres and Hydrospheres ), which associates about 20 Universities all around Italy. The mission of HYDROCARE is to study the hydrological cycle of the CADSES area by adopting an integrated and multidisciplinary approach. Some basic information on the project can be found on the web-page http://www.cadses.net/en/projects/apprpro.html?projectId=1017 in the CADSES portal. The official web-site of HYDROCARE is http://www.hydrocare-cadses.net .

HYDROCARE originates from the acknowledgment of the strategic relevance of the water for the linked issues of economic development and environmental protection. The proposed integrated approach, based on the coupled analysis of both water resource and hydro-meteorogical events, derives from the appraisal of the suitability of transdisciplinary approaches to complex problems.

HYDROCARE entails a set of quite different and complementary partners covering a large portion of the whole CADSES region. Local authorities, scientific institutions, and technical services participate with their diverse expertises and experiences. Collaboration is foreseen between bodies based in both old and new EU member states as well as in non-member states.