FLOODRESILIENCITY

The project enables responsible public authorities in eight cities in North West Europe to better cope with floods in urban areas along 5 pillars: 1. Awareness: To enhance the awareness and engagement in all aspects of flood risk and the means of managing it at: * the Policy level (politicians/decision makers), * the Professionals level (of the involved authorities and elsewhere), * the Public level (people, companies, developers, insurance companies). 2. Avoidance: To limit flood damage and ease recovery by planning and adapting buildings, infrastructure, surfaces and economic activities and building capacity in individuals and institutions to become more resilient 3. Alleviation: To reduce flood risk by implementing physical, technical, non-structural and procedural measures for the management of water systems. 4. Assistance: To provide support to recovery processes and to engage and build capacity in communities, and others prior to, during and after flood events 5. Strategy & Capacity: To develop the capacity to engage in the processes above to adapt to and manage flood risk by integrating the activities associated with objectives 1 — 4. The FloodResilienCity project will ultimately result in better solutions, more awareness and increased capacity in flood management in the cities Bradford, Brussels, Dublin, Leuven, Mainz, Nijmegen, Orléans and Paris. The project will activate a structural change in the mindset of the politicians, professionals and public in these partner cities. That change concerns a recognition of the importance to address all 4-‘A’s (Awareness, Avoidance, Alleviation and Assistance) in their sustainable flood risk management policies.

Difficult to have a complete overview on the results as the main website has been hacked. However, the project aims at supporting urban areas to be able to be resilient to changes that would otherwise cause an increasing likelihood of flooding. The study applied to Dublin City Council is available and presents the analysis and the actions carried out by DCC in this regards.

Another output is available online and demonstrate an interesting sharing of knowledge and experience of the partners of 3 Interreg IVB projects FloodResilienCity (FRC), Managing Adaptive Responses to Changing Flood Risk (MARE) and Skills Integration and New Technology (SKINT). They put togehter a useful report “The development of Flood Risk Management Plans at City and County Scale”. It covers the first phase of developing flood risk management plans; that of initial planning at city or county scale.