13th International Conference "EUROPE-INBO 2015", 21-24 October 2015 (Thessaloniki, Greece)

The 13th “EUROPE-INBO 2015” international conference, organized by the "Group of European Basin Authorities for the Implementation of the European Water Directives”, will take place, at the invitation of the Greek Authorities, Ministry of Reconstruction of Production Environment and Energy, the Special Secretariat for Water, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the International Network of Water-Environment centres for the Balkans (INWEB), KEODI, the Centre for Integrated Water Resources Management on 21-24 October 2015 In Thessaloniki in Greece.

Within the context created by the European Commission “Blueprint”, the meeting will be organized around a preparatory workshop and 4 roundtables dealing with the updated issues of the field Implementation of the WFD and other European Water Directives. Be studied especially study the means for better integration of the processes, new measures to cope with the main challenges that are: diffuse pollution, hydro-morphology, adaptation to climate change, prevention of droughts and floods, the need to get the stakeholders more involved in the field implementation of these measures, the economic tools and the funding of the Programmes of Measures, etc.