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09/11/2015 1 [email protected] 01234 752979 www.therrc.co.uk Martin Janes Managing Director, The River Restoration Centre (UK) Antonia Scarr Environment Agency (England) European Parliament workshop on 'LIFE – How to use €3.46 billion for environment and climate protection’ EU LIFE+ RESTORE Project [information & communication] Sept 2010 to Dec 2013

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Page 1: EU LIFE+ RESTORE Project [information communication] Janes.pdf · 09/11/2015 6 RESTORE impact over 3 years • Stronger European network of River Restoration, – 36 seminars and

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[email protected]                    01234 752979                    www.therrc.co.uk 

Martin JanesManaging Director, The River Restoration Centre (UK)

Antonia ScarrEnvironment Agency (England)

European Parliament workshop on 'LIFE – How to use €3.46 billion for environment and climate protection’ 

EU LIFE+ RESTORE Project[information & communication]Sept 2010 to Dec 2013

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The River Restoration Centre (RRC)Working to  restore and enhance our rivers

Independent, impartial, specialist, not‐for‐profit 

River restoration expert advisers since 1994   .

• Expert advice to policy, science and practice,

• Communicating knowledge & understanding,

• Training & technical workshops,

• Building the UK evidence base,

• Best practice technical guidance,

• The UK forum for knowledge exchange.

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RESTORE• Communicating RR across Europe• Extension of RRC’s 20 year UK role • Expand European River Restoration Centre network• Objectives

– Supporting river restoration practices across Europe– Build up existing river restoration network capacity– Promote effective river restoration knowledge transfer– Establish long term river restoration knowledge sharing

• After LIFE……..  Hand on to ECRR and its network– ECRR, [RESTORE] web pages and RRC website

www.restorerivers.euwww.ECRR.org

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Before: monotonous river landscape

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Information, Advice, Learning, Sharing and CommunicatingBest Practice

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RESTORE impact over 3 years• Stronger European network of River Restoration,

– 36 seminars and conferences in 20 countries– 66 events for 5791 people

• ‘Rivers by Design’ guide,• New ‘Manual of River Restoration Techniques’ examples,

• Web guidance & resources for river restoration,• RiverWiki: web based ‘community’ case study tool,• Supporting a 5th EU conference and EU Riverprize,• Social media, articles, bulletins, papers, talks…….

– 9548 individual contacts…continues through ECRR

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[email protected]                    www.therrc.co.uk 

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the Manual of River Restoration Techniqueshttp://www.therrc.co.uk/rrc_manual.php

• 64 examples, 37 projects, £6M of projects

• Design, application and WFD mitigation measures