As part of the second project team meeting of the DALIA project, held at Széchenyi Istvan University in Győr, researchers from the Institute for Development and Innovation together with colleagues from 22 partner organizations visited the first demonstration site in the Szigetkoz region in Hungary. Innovative activities on the DALIA project are supported by 9 demonstration pilot sites in 6 countries of the Danube River Basin.
After the series of productive meetings, the project team visited the Mosoni Danube Outflow structure which was built between 2017 and 2022 and cost 75 M€.
Its purpose is related to the restoration of surface and groundwater levels, mitigating flood risks, supplying ecological water demand, restoration of wetlands, mitigating the harmful effects of climate change, and better utilization of natural water resources. The team also visited the Dunakiliti Dam, a submerged dam that was constructed in 1995 as a response to the construction of Bős hydropower that was put into operation in 1992 by Slovakia, causing various ecological and economic problems. Today, the Dunakiliti Dam controls the water level and distributes flow between the main riverbed and the branches.
At the end of the two-day event, the team also took a boat drive through the Lower Szigetköz Floodplain and visited the Ásványi structure which functions as a fish passage.
