Dr Brankica Majkić-Dursun, a director of the WSDAC attended the webinar “USFS Dam Management, Lifecycle, and Decommissioning.” Representatives from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) provided introductory lectures on dam safety and the FEMA 333 Guideline, as well as some examples of good practice for small dam decommissioning at the end of their lifecycle.
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Miodrag Milovanovic advisor in WSDAC and JCWI was invited to the Workshop on data sharing and trust in transboundary water cooperation organized as a part of the research project “Testing the Theory: How and Why Data Sharing Leads to Trust-building in Water Cooperation and Diplomacy” implemented by IHE Delft on 17-18 January 2024, and funded […]
On December 25, 2023, Dr. Nikola Milivojević and Dr. Brankica Majkić-Dursun participated in a working meeting at the Faculty of Civil Engineering organized by the National IHP Committee on the topic of “Low Flows and Hydrological Drought in the Danube Basin.”
As part of the mandatory reporting on the work and conducted activities of the Center, at the request of UNESCO IHP for the needs of the IHP publication project “UNESCO Water Family in Action 2022-2023”, WSDAC submitted a biennial work report (online report) on December 16, 2023.
As part of regional cooperation on December 13, 2023, a presentation of the hydro-meteorological system for early warning and flood forecasting in the Kolubara watershed was conducted. Representatives from the civil protection agencies of the cities of Banja Luka, Prijedor, and Gradiška from the Republic of Srpska attended the workshop. The operation of the system […]
On December 13, 2023, representatives of the Center, Dr. Brankica Majkić-Dursun, Miodrag Milovanović, and Dr. Vesna Tripković, participated in the online meeting “Update meeting on the reporting process for implemented activities under IHP IX” organized by the General Secretariat of IHP. Update meeting on the reporting process for implemented activities under IHP IX held on […]
In September 2023, the center’s director participated in the preparation of the Narrative report of the Achievement of the implementation of IHP-VIII (2014-2021). The center presented international conferences organized during the mentioned period, co-organized by the center and the Jaroslav Černi Water Institute, related to the VIII – IHP.
During the period from September 4th to 8th, 2023, PhD candidate Dušan Marjanović participated in the HydRoData: Summer School in Ljubljana organized by the UNESCO Chair on Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction. The lecturers were eminent professors from Slovenia, Austria, and Germany. The summer school covered lectures on hydrological measurements, hydrological data collection, and hydrological modeling […]
On August 14, 2023, an online meeting was held between the director of the WSDAC Center and Professor Dr. John Rowan, director of the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science at the University of Dundee, Scotland, on the topic of potential collaboration opportunities.
On July 20, 2023, Dr. Brankica Majkić-Dursun participated in a thematic online meeting organized by the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Science Unit, Venice Italy. The topic of the meeting was the establishment of an interactive platform for data exchange, results, and strengthening the network of Centers, Chairs, and National Secretariats […]