Cross Border Planning and Infrastructure Measures for Flood Protection
Acronym |
FLOOD PROTECTION |
| Project Number – MIS | 5006157 |
| Priority axis | 2 - A Sustainable and Climate adaptable Cross-Border area |
| Investment priorities | 5b - Promoting investment to address specific risks, ensuring disaster resilience and developing disaster management systems |
| Intervention fields |
087. Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks e.g. erosion, fires, flooding, storms and drought, including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems and infrastructures |
| Call | 3rd Call for Project Proposals |
| Lead Beneficiary | Region of Central Macedonia |
| Beneficiaries |
Decentralised Administration of Macedonia-Thrace District Administration of Blagoevgrad District Administration of Haskovo District Administration of Smolyan Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Regional Administration of Kardzhali |
| Start Date | Sep 11, 2017 |
| End Date | Nov 30, 2022 |
| Budget | 13.195.122,46 € |
| ERDF Contribution | 11.215.854,09 € |
| National Contribution | 1.979.268,37 € |
| Website | http://www.crossborderfloodprotection.eu/ |
The main objective of the project is to increase the level of protection against floods in the c/b area of Greece and Bulgaria and especially in areas with high probability of flood events across the two international river basins of Struma/Strymon and Evros/Maritsa. In order to achieve this main objective, PBs have concluded on a number of sub-objectives which then were transformed into concrete actions. The sub-objectives of the project are:
• improvement/support/maintenance of existing permanent flood protection infrastructure in order to either increase their ability to constrain flood water or facilitate better water flow and therefore reduce the risk of flood
• supply of necessary equipment that will enable PBs to react promptly against imminent floods and constrain the negative effects of water in flood areas
• Enhance the cooperation between competent authorities in the two countries and their capacity to address climate change
• supply of necessary equipment that will enable PBs to react promptly against imminent floods and constrain the negative effects of water in flood areas
• Enhance the cooperation between competent authorities in the two countries and their capacity to address climate change