Invitation to join 1st public General Assembly RISKBASE

RISKBASE is a recently started Coordination Action (CA) project under the 6th Framework Programme (FP6) of the European Commission (EC). This CA aims to review and synthesise the outcome of EC RTD FP projects, and other major initiatives, related to integrated risk assessment-based management of the water/sediment/soil system at the river-basin scale. The synthesis will lead to the delivery of:

1. An overarching concept, generic approach and guiding principles to integrated risk based management of river basins,
2. Recommendations towards evolution and implementation of risk based management in national and community policies and towards implementation in management, and
3. A proposal for the European research agenda related to risk based management.

The reviewing and synthesis will be done by leading European scientists and representatives of major, European stakeholder groups, amongst others in a series of public, thematic workshops and public General Assemblies.

The 1st public General Assembly (GA), entitled “Towards Risk-Based Management of European River Basins” will be held in Seville, Spain at 24-26 January 2007. This 1st GA aims to further set the scene for the activities in RISKBASE. The GA programme includes key-note presentations from the perspective of River Basin Management (ICPDR, EC WFD Pilot River Basin Network), European and national policy development and implementation (EC DG Environment and UK Environment Agency), NGO (WWF), Industry (Euro Copper) and several key-notes from top-level scientist (a.o. a keynote from the EC FP6 Integrated Project ModelKey) and many more.

The detailed GA programme as well as details on how to register (free of charge) and book your hotel are available in a dedicated flyer that is available through the recently launched RISKBASE website: www.riskbase.info . More information can also be obtained through the RISKBASE coordinator, Jos Brils, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .