Brdo pri Kranju, SL - February 4-5 2025

Lèze basin, FR - 23 January 2025

Loosbroek, NL - November 21 2024

Wallingford, UK – October 23-25, 2024

The growing challenge of droughtDrought is a growing concern in the Upper Biebrza River Basin in Poland. It is affecting the entire region: both agricultural and wetland ecosystems.

Re-starting biodiversity monitoring for the Kavouropotamos stream in 2024 

In the SpongeScapes project, monitoring natural water retention measures over different seasons and years is key to understanding their effectiveness.

Last Wednesday, a diverse group of researchers from Deltares, Waterschap Brabantse Delta, Wageningen University, and Provincie Noord-Brabant went on a field visit to the Chaamse Beken.

On May 16, 2024, SpongeScapes kicked off its first SpongeLab workshop in Loosbroek, The Netherlands, introducing the geodesign approach to local stakeholders in the Aa and Maas management area.  

Last Friday, 8 March, Ellis Penning and Christopher Wittmann (Deltares) presented SpongeScapes at the NAC2024 conference, during a session dedicated to climate resilient sandy soil research in the Netherlands.

Last week, 25-27 October, the EU-Horizon SpongeScapes project kick-off meeting took place in Delft, the Netherlands.