Short description of the action
The EU co-financed project LIFE DICCA (Danube Island Climate Change Adaptation), coordinated by the City of Vienna, Water Management has been completed in autumn 2024.
The main aim of LIFE DICCA was to increase the climate change resilience of ecosystems on the Danube Island. To this end, a large number of projects and measures - such as environmentally friendly sheep grazing, the creation of wind turbine-operated pond biotopes, the establishment of new habitats for endangered species, sediment management measures or the implementation of citizen science projects for environmental education - have been developed and implemented over the past six years.
- Name of organisation
- City of Vienna - Water Management
- Type of organisation
- City or local authority
- Type of action proposed
- Upscaling, deployment and replication of solutions
- The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
- Protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity
- Start date of the action
- End date of the action
- Budget allocated for the action
- 2000000
- Basin coverage
- Danube River basin, including Black Sea
- Website link
- lisbeth.kovacs@wien.gv.at
- Country
- Austria