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NEW Harmonica

Recent reports indicate that 60% of the EU surface water bodies have failed to meet the goal of safe ecological status. In particular, in NW Europe, including the Netherlands, Belgium, and parts of United Kingdom, the percentage is as high as 75-90%. Many environmental policies have been implemented to reduce the negative anthropogenic impacts. However, there is a huge challenge for the agricultural sectors to implement effective mitigation measures and best management practices to reduce nutrient emissions. The tradeoffs between management actions need to be clarified and better integrated, for which a consistent and coherent set of environmental indicators are required. The NEW-HARMONICA project and consortium has been formed and designed to meet these needs precisely. The consortium involves 4 partners from 3 countries in NW Europe, with the goal of bringing in complementary knowledge and expertise, skills and networks to reduce nutrient emissions in NW European Catchments. Within the project, existing  models and tools will be applied and evaluated, governance scenarios will be developed and assessed on three transboundary river basins to achieve multiple desired environmental outcomes.

1st project meeting NEW HARMONICA

The 1st project meeting of NEW HARMONICA was held online on 16 November 2022. The progress of each work package was reported, new action points were discussed. Special meetings on data collection, model introduction were planned accordingly by work package leaders.

Meeting sister projects

Meeting between the EU sister projects NAPSEA, NEW-Harmonica and NordBalt-Ecosafe was held on 30 november 2022. Future collaboration needs on different topics were disscussed, a road-map including joint disseminations was planned. Possibilities of joint meetings and webinars were explored.

Kick off meeting


Participants kick off meeting New Harmonica 1

The kick-off meeting of NEWHARMONICA was held in ‘s Hertogenbosch 

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Dutch Meuse

The Meuse river enters the Netherlands from Belgium in the south and the Rhine River

 

Flemish Meuse

Location of the region of Flanders in Belgium its main rivers Yser Scheldt Meuse and

Neagh-Bann

The North Western International River Basin District

Wye Catchment

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UK participants in Horizon Europe Project New Harmonica are supported by UKRI grant numbers 10047759 (Lancaster University) and 10048302 (Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute)

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