Objective 1.1: Climate change adaptation, risk prevention
The ADAPTisa project aims to develop an Integrated Water Management Platform for the Tisa River using innovative tools and enhancing communication and cooperation among water and disaster management stakeholders to adapt to weather extremes and mitigate hydrological risks.
Acronym: ADAPTisa
Project Title: Joint Adaptation and Mitigation Measures to Climate Change Supporting Integrated Water Management on the Tisa River
Project ID: HUSRB/23R/11/006
Total Project budget: EUR 1 418 020.16
EU contribution (IPA): EUR 1 205 317.13
Start Date: 01 September 2024
End Date: 31 August 2026
Lead Partner: Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad (RS)
Other Partners:
P1: European Affairs Fund of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (RS)
P2: Lower-Tisza District Water Directorate (HU)
P3: University of Szeged (HU)
P4: Public Water Management Company "Vode Vojvodine" (RS)
Email: adaptisa@uns.ac.rs
By now it is widely accepted that due to global warming, precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns will change in the cross-border region of Hungary and Serbia, resulting in a more dynamic hydrological cycle. Consequently, an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is expected, affecting various aspects of human life.
Weather extremes and related flood and drought events have become a significant threat to communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems in the Tisa/Tisza River Basin. These call for joint action to tackle the current challenges water management faces. The ADAPTisa project develops continuous, data-driven cooperation between water and disaster managers in the Hungary-Serbia cross-border region, focusing on mitigating hydrological risks and improving the region’s adaptation capacity and resilience.
In order to reduce climate change-related risks, primarily flood and drought, four main coherent outcomes are planned, which effectively contribute to the improvement of the risk prevention and disaster management systems and to the increase the climate change resilience of the border region: