Tid(y)Up

http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/tid-y-up

F(ol)low the Plastic from source to the sea: Tisza-Danube integrated action plan to eliminate plastic pollution of rivers

Despite the EU's advanced waste management and ambitious recycling targets, studies show the presence of plastic and micro-plastic pollution in the rivers of countries in the Central European region. Preventing a new threat is a challenge for water quality. At present, there are no standard methods and data on plastic pollution in the rivers of the Danube basin that would facilitate coordinated action by water management authorities and allow for cooperation with other sectors needed to stop pollution. The Tid(y) Up project, supported by the Interreg Danube Transnational Program, focused on reducing plastic pollution and improving water quality on the Tisza River.

The project partners will develop and launch integrated action programs, consult relevant stakeholders and initiate long-term cross-border and cross-sectoral cooperation to eliminate plastic pollution of rivers. The project seeks to reduce plastic pollution with a wide range of tools: developing scientific measures to standardize methods for estimating pollution levels, making recommendations for developing standard measurement and analysis methods, field expeditions, pilot measures to identify and clean up contaminated sites, and education on prevention and awareness-raising measures.

Project Manager:

Termeszetfilm.hu Scientific Film Workshop Association

Project partners:

Association of Environmental Manufacturers and Service Providers – Hungary

Institute of Oceanology – Bulgarian Academy of Science – Bulgaria

Multisalva Association – Romania

University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources (BOKU) – Austria

Agency for the Support of Regional Development Košice – Slovakia

General Directorate of Water Management – Hungary

Faculty of Tehnical Sciences Novi Sad – Serbia

For the nature- and environmental protection – Ukraine

Agency of Regional Development Cross Border Cooperation “Transcarpathia” of Zakarpatska Oblast Council – Ukraine

Strategic partners:

Serbian Environmental Protection Agency – Serbia

Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe – Slovakia

SLOVAK WATER MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISE state enterprise – Slovakia

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Hungary

North-Hungary Water Directorate - Hungary

Upper-Tisza Water Directorate - Hungary

International Comission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) – Austria

State Scientific & Technical Centre for inter-sectorial & regional problems of the Environmental Safety and Resource Conservation (Centre "EcoResource") – Ukraine

Public Organisation Ekosphera – Ukraine

Danube River Basin Directorate (DRBD) – Bulgaria

Satu Mare County Administrative-Territorial Unit – Romania

Project duration: 01.07.2020 – 31.12.2022

Total budget: EUR 1.62 million

EU amount (ERDF, ENI, IPA): EUR 1.38 million

Translated by: Attila Kádár, International Department, General Directorate of Water Management of Hungary