WATERDRIVE

WATERDRIVE The goal is to go a step further – to introduce new, smarter water management practices in agriculture, encouraging stakeholders to cooperate, creating innovative planning tools for water resource management and spatial development planning, creating and testing forms of cooperation for water resource management, as well as preparing recommendations for agri-environmental measures for the new planning period.

The direct target groups are local governments, farmers, agricultural consultants and other water and land managers, as well as policy makers. The project involves partners and combines expertise from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany.

We have two years of work ahead of us, in which we will try to implement at least a part of the experience and knowledge of foreign partners, in cooperation with Latvian project partners, in Latvia, in the territories adjacent to the Svēte River. We hope for the support of members of the Farmers' Assembly and other farmers, because only by working together and testing ideas and solutions in practice can we prepare the most realistic proposals for policy and support instrument makers.

Project partners:

Jelgava County (Latvia)
Latvia University of Agriculture (Latvia)
Association of Farmers' Parliament (Latvia)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)
South Baltic Water District Authority/Kalmar County Administrative Board (Sweden)
Swedish Board of Agriculture (Sweden)
Västervik Municipality (Sweden)
Baltic Environmental Forum Lithuania
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Finland)
Finnish Environment Institute (Finland)
ProAgria Southern Finland
Finnish Field Drainage Association (Finland)
Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre (Estonia)
European Regional Center for Ecohydrology (Poland)
Agency for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs of the German Federal State Schleswig Holstein (Germany)
L&F SEGES (Denmark)

Total budget: 2 711 587.00 EUR

ERDF co-financing: 2 113 858.95 EUR

Partner contribution: 577 728.05 EUR

Project contacts:

Frank Bondgaard, SEGES, fbo@seges.dkDenmark
Kaja Peterson, SEI Tallinn, peterson@sei.orgEstonia
Helena Äijö, Finnish Field Drainage Association, aijo@salaojayhdistys.fiFinland
Uwe Rammert, Agency for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs of the German Federal State Schleswig Holstein, rammert@llur.landsh.deGermany
Ainis Lagzdins, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, lagzdins@llu.lvLatvia
Zymantas Morkvenas, Baltic Environment Forum, morkvenas@bef.ltLithuania
Katarzyna Izydorczyk, European Regional Center for Ecohydrology, izydorczyk@erce.unesco.lodz.plPoland
Staffan Lund, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, lund@slu.seSweden