Visit to channel dredging in Hungary

Within the project “Environmentally friendly water management in plane areas“, having resulted from the partnership among the European Affairs Fund of AP Vojvodina, PWMC “Vode Vojvodine“ Novi Sad and

Within the project “Environmentally friendly water management in plane areas“, having resulted from the partnership among the European Affairs Fund of AP Vojvodina, PWMC “Vode Vojvodine“ Novi Sad and ATI-VIZIG from Hungary, the partners from Serbia paid a visit to Szeged on 22nd and 23rd April. The aim of the visit was to present the planned project activities of dredging of the Kurca channel, as well as examples of best practice from other projects.

During the two-day visit, the partners held a number of meetings in order to exchange experience related to the dredging of the section of Kurca channel in Hungary and watercourse Jegrička in Serbia. Moreover, one of the topics was the continuation of the cooperation of water management companies from Serbia and Hungary in water management in order to use the prospects of EU funding in the next budget period 2014-2020.The activities of the dredging of the Kurca channel covered by the eWAM project have been completed and a length of 2893 m in total has been dredged.

The project “Environmentally friendly water management in plane areas“ has been funded under the Hungary-Serbia IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme and it lasts until 31st July 2014.