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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.

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.

18 April, 2024

18 April, 2024

Informative meetings to present the river restoration projects for two stretches of the Ebro river

The actions, within the framework of the Ebro Resilience Strategy, will have an investment of 4.6 million euros. The Aragonese Water Institute (IAA) has held a round of meetings open to the public to present the river restoration projects for […]

15 April, 2024

Informative sessions of the Government of Navarre on subsidies for adaptation to flood risks

On April 30 and May 2 and 3, the Directorate General for the Environment of Navarra will resolve doubts about the two calls for subsidies addressed to local entities for actions for protection and adaptation to flood risk, both with NextGeneration funds and one of them focused on the municipalities within the scope of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.

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.

9 April, 2024

Public Information on the Alcalá-Remolinos-Luceni and Torres de Berrellén-Sobradiel projects.

The Government of Aragon, through the Aragonese Water Institute, has submitted these two projects for flood risk reduction, which together have a budget of 4.6 million euros.

27 March, 2024

Drafting of construction projects for eleven sections of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.

The Ebro Resilience Strategy launches the bidding process for four consulting contracts for the drafting of the construction projects of sections 3A, 3B, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12B, 15 and 16. The Ebro Resilience Strategy is developing a […]

22 March, 2024

Estrategia Ebro Resilience y Proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1

22 March, 2024

Ebro Resilience Strategy and LIFE Ebro Resilience Project P1

Coordination and participation as a tool to achieve a more flood-resilient middle Ebro, improving the ecological status and local biodiversity. In the framework of World Water Day, which is celebrated every March 22nd, the Strategy Ebro Strategy Resilience Strategy Strategy […]

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.

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.

19 December, 2023

Plantaciones en El Estajao. Alfaro. La Rioja

19 December, 2023

The second phase of planting in “El Estajao” (Alfaro), the final stretch of the environmental restoration work

The first planting phase carried out last February has already shown its effectiveness in flood events. A total of 21,100 specimens will be reached between the two phases, which apply techniques that mimic the natural distribution of riparian vegetation.

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.

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.

26 July, 2023

Ebro Resilience environmental actions: permeabilization of the Pina Dam, Ebro River (Zaragoza).

In addition to reducing the risk of flooding in the middle stretch of the Ebro, the Strategy aims to improve the ecological status of the intervention sections, such as this intervention, which will maintain the use of the infrastructure by improving the longitudinal continuity of the river.

12 July, 2023

Portada de la guía de adaptación de explotaciones ganaderas

12 July, 2023

Navarra Government announces subsidies for adaptation to flood risk in the Ebro Basin

The Government of Navarra, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), has called for grants for actions to adapt to the risk of flooding of buildings, equipment and facilities or existing farms in the Ebro Basin.

25 April, 2023

Detailed study of Stretch 3A in San Adrián

The Detailed study of Section 3A, which includes the course of the Ebro and Ega rivers in San Adrián (Navarra), is now available on the web site The Ebro Resilience Strategy aims to reduce flood damage in the middle stretch […]