1. Vision of a European Centre for Flood and Drought Studies
André Paquier, Alain Vidal (
20 January 2003

2. The Floodaqua Vision : Integration
3 integration levels
Institutional integration: core institutions willing to build an appropriate management structure, most likely an EEIG
Human integration: researchers of the 8 core group institutions (and in a lesser extent of the ‘2nd circle’) should consider themselves as working for the Virtual Center, and no longer working for their home institutions
Science and excellence integration: jointly executed research will
coordinate with other projects and networks, and
include key-representatives of the scientific community

3. The Floodaqua Vision : Science
A science plan with 3 components :
Climatic change impact on extreme hydrological events
Droughts
Floods
Varied dissemination strategies to:
Scientific community, stakeholders, students,…

4. The Core Group A core organisation of 8 partners
Each responsible for an integration activity and for a scientific activity
Each providing a team of researchers
Representing a network of 150 researchers
Willing to build a unified management structure, most likely an EEIG
The main institutional integration level
EEIG
CEH
Cemagref
NCR
NTUA
SYKE
Cohydex
JRC Ispra
CEDEX
150

5. The ‘Second Circle’ Up to 10 additional partners :
Bridging the gaps of the core group in terms of scientific competences and integration
Representing the main scientific and geographic trends
Each providing a team of around 5 researchers, representing a total of 50 researchers
Together with core group represents the main human integration level
IP Flood
IRSA
EEIG
CEH
Cemagref
BfG
NCR
NTUA
SYKE
Cohydex
JRC Ispra ?
PIK Potsdam
SMHI
CEDEX
Vituki
Cracow U.T.
150 50

6. The ‘Third Circle’ Covering the scientific community
IP Flood
IRSA
EEIG
CEH
Cemagref
BfG
NCR
NTUA
SYKE
Cohydex
JRC Ispra ?
PIK Potsdam
SMHI
CEDEX
Cracow U. T.
150
+50
+200
Covering the scientific community
Around 20 groups of 10 experts for each of the science and integration subtopics
Possibility of NoE calls for proposals for specific tasks
An additional 200 researchers
The excellence integration level
Vituki