Life – Page 2 – Ebro Resilience

4 September, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: a knowledge network on floods and replication of results

Networking and knowledge exchange and the transfer and replication of results are two lines of work of the Project, which have already taken Ebro Resilience technicians to 14 national and international forums, congresses and conferences.

19 August, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 materials: flood management information sheets

5 fact sheets of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and 5 of the LIFE Project have been published, covering various aspects of flood risk management: self-protection, measures, environmental benefits of floods, thus creating documents to improve social knowledge of this phenomenon.

30 July, 2024

Grupo de co-creación 3 de la Zona 1 revisando la maleta didáctica del proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1

30 July, 2024

Informative materials: LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 educational kits

Of different typologies to cover in the educational centers of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 territory from kindergarten to ESO, they complement the educational units and have been outlined with the members of the participation groups of the Project.

22 July, 2024

Grabación de Aragón Tv en la Mejana de la Cruz en Alagón

22 July, 2024

Flood risk adaptation information resources for journalists

The media is one of the sectors targeted by the actions of the social capacity building plan of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project.

5 July, 2024

Reducing future maintenance of interventions: La Roza meander relief channel

A herbaceous cover crop, alfalfa, will be planted next winter, which will prevent tree growth and maintain the water path, reducing the need for human intervention.

26 June, 2024

Visita a la obra de recuperación de antiguos brazos de río en el Soto de Alfaro por parte de los integrantes de los espacios de participación del proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1

26 June, 2024

Getting to know the actions for the recovery of river branches in the Soto de Alfaro

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project invited all the members of the participation spaces to visit the intervention area to recover the functionality of the meander with the reopening of the water paths that were typical of the Ebro.

14 June, 2024

Grupo de ribereños visitando la zona del meandro de La Roza y cerca de la parcela liberada

14 June, 2024

LIFE participation: land use in La Roza (Alfaro), from proposal to execution

In the meander that has been recovered as a river space, a process has been developed to decide with the territory and different interested sectors the future uses of the area, proposals that are already becoming a reality.

4 June, 2024

Visita de campo al Soto Aguilar, en Fuentes de Ebro, zona de intervención del Proyecto LIFE

4 June, 2024

Field visits to explain the adaptation to flooding in the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza).

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 starts field sessions for owners and tenants of plots of land to be integrated in the future Lateral Flow Buffer Zones, an innovative intervention to adapt agricultural land to the Ebro floods.

31 May, 2024

Information session on adaptation to flooding in the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section.

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project organized a conference, mainly aimed at stakeholders of the Irrigation Community of La Huerta del Ebro, to inform about the measures proposed to reduce damage in extraordinary floods and that have European funding and the state and regional administrations.

30 May, 2024

Grupo técnico con todos los socios del proyecto LIFE en la Green Week

30 May, 2024

Ebro Resilience experiences presented at the EU Green Week dedicated to hydrological resilience

The European Commission has invited the project to participate in its annual Green Week in Brussels, specifically in the session dedicated to the restoration and protection of the water cycle.

24 May, 2024

Reunión del monitor del Programa LIFE. El grupo técnico del proyecto y el monitor Borja Domínguez en la sesión de sala.

24 May, 2024

Annual monitoring visit from the European LIFE Program

Periodic monitoring to review and check the status of all actions, schedule the next milestones and resolve possible doubts.

20 May, 2024

Nature-based solutions: recovery of river branches in Soto de Alfaro begins

This intervention is part of Zone 1 of LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, in what is called the combined section of actions to mitigate the effects of floods and will allow the recovery of the functionality of the meander, helping to fulfill its role as a fluvial space.

13 May, 2024

Walking Rivers. Ruta realizada por el Proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 entre los meandros de El Señorío y La Roza, integrándose en la experiencia mundial de caminar los ríos.

13 May, 2024

Walking Rivers: LIFE Ebro Resilience Project participates in this worldwide experience

On May 11, we joined this initiative that led hundreds of people to walk the river paths in the five continents, and together with the riverside population we completed the route from the meander of El Señorío (Castejón, in Navarra) and the meander of La Roza (Alfaro, La Rioja).

1 May, 2024

Descenso interpretativo desde Ortigoso a El Señorío en la jornada de intercambio con LIFE Kantauribai

1 May, 2024

Interpretative descents on the Ebro: more knowledge about the river and the Resilience actions

- This April, one of the most attractive lines of actions for strengthening social capacities and increasing knowledge about the river was launched. Journalism students from the faculties of Aragon, high school students from Alfaro and Castejón or technicians from other projects have already made interpretative descents with us.

30 April, 2024

Pruebas de funcionamiento de la fase 1 de la nueva red primaria de la Comunidad de la Huerta del Ebro en Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza.

30 April, 2024

Phase 1 of the adapted irrigation network in Fuentes de Ebro has been tested.

The first phase of the new pipeline for the irrigation system of the Huerta del Ebro Irrigation Community, in Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, has been completed, reaching 1,350 meters of this infrastructure. During the last week of April, a test run of the installation was carried out, with satisfactory results, and it could be used by its users immediately.

29 April, 2024

29 April, 2024

Enjoying the river and learning about floods: large turnout at the Aguilar meander route

On April 28, Fuenteros and neighbors from nearby towns enjoyed a walk along the meander of Aguilar, in the Ebro river in Fuentes, in an informative and recreational day organized by the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project.

16 April, 2024

Adecuación morfológica en el río Ebro en el meandro de La Roza, Alfaro (La Rioja)

16 April, 2024

Commitment to adaptation in the middle segment: subsidies through NextGeneration Funds in La Rioja,

The Autonomous Communities of the middle stretch of the Ebro, members of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and partners of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project have launched lines of aid for private individuals and local entities, aimed at protection and adaptation to flood risk included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the example being the publication of aid from the Government of La Rioja on April 12.

12 April, 2024

Foto de grupo con bandera LIFE visita Organismos de cuenca de toda España al meandro de La Roza, Alfaro.

12 April, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: hosts basin organizations from all over Spain to discuss adaptation and public participation

Up to 40 technical colleagues from state and regional river basin organizations have learned first-hand about the Project's ongoing actions and its pioneering proposal for social participation, during the conferences held on April 10 and 11.

21 March, 2024

Vista del meandro y del cauce de alivio de La Roza, Alfaro, La Rioja

21 March, 2024

The relief channel in the meander of La Roza: a riparian corridor with more continuity and diversity for habitats.

The restoration of vegetation that is being carried out with vegetation typical of the Ebro riverbank in this channel, created during the morphological adaptation, gives us the excuse to talk about this type of intervention.

13 March, 2024

Meandro de la roza con máximos caudales registrados en el episodio de crecidas (unos 2.000 m3/s) en el tramo medio.

13 March, 2024

Ebro Resilience Interventions: a review in images of the last flooding of the river

The last week of February has seen a flood of flows in the middle stretch of the Ebro due to the rains recorded in the Ebro basin, an episode at the limit of what is considered extraordinary that leaves us these images of the response of the Ebro Resilience intervention typologies in this stretch

29 February, 2024

Ideas and proposals from the territory: LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 opens new avenues of participation on the use of land in El Señorío

The Project organizes an open forum on future uses in this meander that will recover its function as a natural space, a public activity that was also carried out to gather proposals in the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro.

20 February, 2024

Trabajos de instalación de la tubería de hormigón para el sistema de riegos de la Comunidad Huerta del Ebro, en Fuentes de Ebro (Zaragoza)

20 February, 2024

Installing the new pipeline that adapts the irrigation system in Fuentes de Ebro to the risk of flooding.

The laying of the new concrete pipe, with a total length of 2,300 meters in this phase, which moves this infrastructure away from the riverbed in the Huerta del Ebro Irrigation Community, is in progress.

9 February, 2024

Plantación realizada durante la restauración ambeintal

9 February, 2024

La Roza environmental restoration underway, last step to complete the LIFE intervention in this meander

- These works are being carried out by the Government of La Rioja and will involve the planting of more than 4,600 specimens of riparian species imitating the natural growth of riparian vegetation.

2 February, 2024

Imagen del nuevo humedal creado en el meandro de La Roza, Alfaro, La Rioja

2 February, 2024

Wetlands in the Ebro Resilience territory: La Nava and La Roza, Alfaro (la Rioja)

In 2023, the meando de La Roza has inaugurated a new wetland area integrated in the morphological adaptation carried out through the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, in addition to the one created in 2020 in La Nava as part of the actions of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.

30 January, 2024

Obras de adaptación ante inundaciones del sistema de riego de la Comunidad de la Huerta del Ebro en Fuentes de Ebro. realizando la zanja para enterrar la tubería

30 January, 2024

Provisional irrigation systems enabled during the work to adapt the Ebro Orchard Community system to floods

The scarcity of winter rains has allowed progress to be made on the work, but unfortunately it is detrimental to crops. For this reason, temporary irrigation has been set up in the fields surrounding the works to save crops, in agreement with the irrigation community and in keeping with the Project's spirit of participation and cooperation.

24 January, 2024

Plano del tramo combinado de actuaciones del Proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 entre Alfaro (La Rioja) y Castejón (Navarra). Sucesión de medidas naturales de evacuación de agua.

24 January, 2024

Combined action section: succession of natural measures with global benefit to reduce flood damages.

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project integrates its zone 1, between Alfaro, La Rioja and Castejón, Navarra, in the combined section that includes several proposals such as the reconnection of meanders, relief channels, recovery of old river branches and enlargement of the river space

19 January, 2024

Public information on the projects for El Señorío (Navarra) and phase 1 of the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza)

New advances in key projects of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 for 2024, which is expected to be a busy year in its two tranches. The last step has been the approval of the public information files of the projects of El Señorío (in Castejón, Navarra) and the improvement of flood resilience - phase 1 between Osera de Ebro and Fuentes de Ebro, in Zaragoza.

29 December, 2023

Public conferences and informative sessions: Ebro Resilience actions open to the whole of society

In addition to the stable participation groups that have been running for over a year and the activities for different sectors included in the capacity building plan, the project has launched these months the first actions of assistance and open participation, expanding the public and involvement with the LIFE proposals.

29 December, 2023

Grupo de trabajo del LIFE Ebro Resilience P

29 December, 2023

2023 LIFE: end of the morphological adaptation in La Roza, start of the adaptation of the irrigable area in Fuentes de Ebro and more social involvement

The actions have made significant progress with the closing of the main interventions in the town of Alfaro, in La Rioja, and the start of actions in section 2 of the project, in the province of Zaragoza.

12 December, 2023

Visor cartográfico de la Red Nacional Rural

12 December, 2023

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, included in the viewer of good practices in rural areas

The Project is one of the actions included in this new tool of the National Rural Network of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food because of its scope of action and because it is innovative, transferable to other areas and contributes to the improvement of work.

11 December, 2023

Técnica de reconexión de brazo antiguo de río Ebro

11 December, 2023

New: follow-up studies on the technique for the recovery of old river branches

The Ebro Hydrographic Confederation has published two studies that increase the knowledge on the evolution of areas where old branches of the river have been recovered, one of the actions included in the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 works.

4 December, 2023

Máquina trabajando para sustituir la actual red de riegos por una tubería enterrada

4 December, 2023

Work begins on adaptation to flood risk in section 2 of the LIFE Project: Osera de Ebro – Fuentes de Ebro (Zaragoza)

The first action will reduce the exposure to flooding of the irrigation system of the Irrigation Community of the Huerta del Ebro, an intervention carried out by the Government of Aragon, to define the actions has been counted throughout the process with the users through the stable groups of participation of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project

29 November, 2023

The LIFE Ebro Resilience Project works with the education sector in the intervention areas.

Both the participation plan and the proposals to increase social capabilities and knowledge about floods have teachers and other educational profiles as a key sector. For this reason, specific actions are started with them, such as the one aimed at analyzing the material that is being prepared for schoolchildren.

23 November, 2023

National and international contacts for LIFE Ebro Resilience project

In recent weeks, the Project has been expanding its professional and institutional network by participating in various technical forums and hosting international delegations. The example of LIFE actions is being introduced to new audiences.

23 November, 2023

Ebro Resilience participation actions, Botín Foundation award for sustainable management

We continue to congratulate ourselves with the Ebro Resilience strategy and the new actions for adaptation to floods. Its participatory proposal, with our colleague Alba Ballester at the head, has been recognized for its actions to involve the population and the search for conflict resolution.

17 November, 2023

Trabajos con maquinaria en el meandro de La Roza, en Alfaro, La Rioja

17 November, 2023

Concludes the morphological adaptation of the Ebro in the meander of La Roza

After a year of work, this phase of the intervention in Alfaro (La Rioja) by the CHE has concluded and all that remains is the river restoration to be carried out by the Government of La Rioja.

30 October, 2023

Jornada para estudiantes de periodismo "Información ante fenómenos hidrológicos extremos" celebrada en el Centro de prensa del Colegio Profesional de Periodistas

30 October, 2023

We participated in the conference for journalists “Information in the face of extreme events”.

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project collaborated in the organization of this session aimed at journalists and journalism students, one of the main sectors to prepare the population for flood risk, to increase their knowledge of this phenomenon and to explain and inform about adaptation actions.

24 October, 2023

Reunión del grupo de co-creación 1 de la zona 2 en Fuentes de Ebro

24 October, 2023

Participation: presenting the proposal for the adaptation of the agricultural zone in the Osera-Fuentes section.

We gathered the co-creation group dedicated to mitigation and adaptation actions in zone 2, the Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro section, to present the proposal for the lateral buffer zones.

20 October, 2023

Ebro Resilience at the Water Engineering Conference: green infrastructures and adaptation measures

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project has presented in Cartagena a summary poster of the project and an article explaining the positive results expected from the interventions, reducing the risk of flooding and recovering 60 hectares of river space.

20 September, 2023

Two years of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project: progress and proposals for participation

During this time the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro, has been recovered as a river space and has generated a new protected area in La Rioja and more than 40 participatory actions have been carried out, most of them related to new forms of involvement of the population that represent a milestone at European level.

8 September, 2023

Jornada divulgativa celebrada en el Museo de Castejón, Navarra, sobre el meandro de El Señorío

8 September, 2023

The conference on the adaptation of the meander of El Señorío (Castejón) attracts a large number of riverside visitors

Stakeholders were able to learn in detail about the planned intervention to reduce the risk of flooding, future environmental restoration and participatory actions.

28 August, 2023

28 August, 2023

Public information on Phase 1 of the improvement of flood resilience in the Osera-Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza).

This phase consists of the morphological adaptation of the Ebro in Zone 2 of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project.

10 August, 2023

LIFE team holds a meeting with mayors of the area on the El Señorío meander (Navarra)

In addition to this meeting with the representatives of the city councils, a public information day has been organized for the first week of September, which will include a visit to the intervention area.

19 July, 2023

Processes of participation in river restoration in the Ebro basin: Noguera de Tor case (Lleida).

The main ingredients of the actions of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, participation in the whole process of defining solutions to reduce the risk of flooding and the combination of actions after a detailed study of alternatives, are applied in interventions outside the Resilience territory, in actions of the National Strategy for River Restoration in other parts of the Ebro basin.

23 June, 2023

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: the Ebro basin, intervention model in RestauraRíos

The actions planned for the river and the proposals for participation and capacity building have passed through the plenary and parallel sessions of the IV Iberian Congress on River Restoration, the most important event on river restoration in Spain and Portugal.

8 June, 2023

Encuentro online de grupos de co-creación

8 June, 2023

Citizen science: population and partners present proposals for a virtual platform to monitor actions

The new tool will allow the exchange of images related to the monitoring of the project interventions and to have references of their behavior after their completion. To identify the different functionalities of the project he held an online meeting

19 May, 2023

LIFE news: intervention in La Roza increases the Natura Network protected area in the Ebro

We celebrate the European Day of the Natura 2000 Network. The land reclaimed for the river, a total of 22 hectares, has been incorporated into the Natura 2000 Network "ZEC Sotos y Riberas del Ebro" through Decree 46/2022 of August 17 of the Government of La Rioja.

16 May, 2023

Ebro Resilience experiences will be presented at the IV Iberian Congress on River Restoration

Through scientific communications and case studies in the plenary of the congress, posters on specific actions and presence in spaces for reflection, the innovative approach to flood risk reduction will have a special role in this event, next June, in Toledo.

4 May, 2023

Proposals from the territory: new ways of participation on the La Roza meander

We held the open forum on future recreational uses on the land of this meander recovered as a space for the river with the participation of new stakeholders in the adaptation measures and natural spaces.

28 April, 2023

Green infrastructures and adaptation measures in a Conference of the Colegio de Caminos

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 is presented in a new professional forum to explain its proposals and actions. The Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos invited the Project to the conference "Response to extraordinary risks", which was held in Madrid on April 27.

19 April, 2023

LIFE in the field: visit to the Osera-Fuentes section (Zaragoza) with co-creation groups

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project is characterized by its continuous presence in the field, in the intervention areas in the middle stretch of the Ebro. On April 18, we visited the so-called Zone 2 of the Project, where the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro (Zaragoza) section will be intervened.