1. John Goudie (CRUE Co-ordinator, Defra, UK)
National and trans-national research actions in flood mapping – a research inventory by the flooding ERA-Net, CRUE
John Goudie (CRUE Co-ordinator, Defra, UK)

2. What is CRUE?
« Coordination de la Recherche sur la gestion des inondations financée dans l’Union Européenne »
An FP6 ‘Co-ordination Action’ for the FUNDERS of flood research (Govt bodies, agencies etc)
Duration 4 years, start date 1 Nov 2004
Overall budget € 3 million to fund networking activities
Focusing on all types of flooding
ERAC-CT

3. CRUE ERA-Net Team Austria Finland France Germany Netherlands Hungary
Italy
Poland
Spain
UK (England and Scotland)
Ireland
Flanders (Belgium)
and looking for new Partners…….

4. Vision for CRUE ERA-Net
Providing a science-driven, comprehensive and transnational co-ordinated evidence base on flood-related issues to key national and European policy-makers through the extensive coordination and integration of research programmes.
Systematic exchange of information and good practice
Strategic structuring activities
Cluster completed and current research
Identify programme management and evaluation procedures
Trans-national research initiatives

5. Systematic exchange of data across Europe: CRUISE
CRUISE = CRUE Information System Europe
Ambition: The gateway to flood research of most EU-countries
web-based (demo on CRUE-site)
detailed records (+weblinks) with
60 programmes
about 480 research projects
about 60 funding bodies
about 500 research org. concerned with FRM
key tool for analysis of research gaps&needs + current efforts

6. Knowledge gained from national/international research on “Flood mapping” – inventory by CRUE ERA-Net
Information about 28 research projects on this issue is publicly available in CRUISE at the moment
Most recent research is carried out in England, Finland, Germany, and Scotland as well as at European-level (IP “FLOODsite”)
Projects dealing mainly with
Flood modelling techniques(1D, 2D, 3D)
How best to deal with Climate Change in scenario building?
How best to include flood forecasting systems into dynamically produced flood maps?
How best can risk be quantified?
How best to identify vulnerable areas and areas of risk?
How to deal with vulnerability and uncertainty?
How best to combine multi-risk approaches in flood mapping? 6

7. CRUE recommendations on common research needs in “Flood mapping”7

8. Key research needs gained from CRUE workshop and report on identified FRM research needs across Europe
What kind of map do we need?
e.g. How to clearly visualise different hazard parameters (probability, depth, extent, velocity, duration, sedimentation, erosion) for floods and related geomorphologic processes? Please refer to RISKCATCH project!
e.g. How best to deal with people's perception and awareness of flood risks, of potential actions, and of flood risk maps; what are the effects of changes in perception on society
e.g. Has a map the potential to reduce investments and developments, possibilities of getting insurance, lower the value of properties, and if so, is that what we want or not?
How to handle residual risk in mapping?
How to define extreme events (processes, probabilities, duration, sediment, etc) and to include this in calculations of risks?
How valuable is the use of a ‘design flood’ in a risk approach considering Climate Change? 8

9. Key research needs gained from the analysis of on-going/completed research in CRUE partner countries
Harmonisation and improvement of numerical simulation methods on a basin scale (including detailed data on topography, infrastructure, fluid dynamics etc.)
Development of common defined hazard and risk levels, in order to allow the comparison of hazard and risk maps across Europe
How to consider resilience of protection structures, facilities and communities as well as adaptive capacity in the development of risk maps?
How best to apply multi-hazard and multi-risk approaches in flood maps?
The development of an on-line Europe-wide synthesis portal to make information about flood hazards and risks more readily available and comparable to the public

10. Initiating and implementing common research activities–
How CRUE is contributing to support Member States in the implementation of the EU Floods Directive 10

11. Experiencing the way forward - CRUE’s 1st Research Funding Initiative
Topic “Risk assessment and risk management: effectiveness and efficiency of non-structural flood risk management measures”
Budget: €1.6 million funded by six call participants (organisations) from CRUE ERA-Net consortium
Seven successful projects, each with researchers from three participating Member States; RISKCATCH is one of these successful projects
Project results and synthesis report available in autumn 08 at 11

12. CRUE’s Research Funding Initiatives – benefit for research funders?
Achieving a critical mass of funding in otherwise unaffordable topic areas
Sharing costs of research actions among several funding partners while using the whole extent of output of the research. This leverage effect allows the analysis of complex research questions with a relatively small national financial contribution
Sharing knowledge and utilising synergies by integrating complementary strengths, contributed by different partners, in transnational joint research projects
Being one of the players in the evolution and establishment of common rules for FRM in the European Research Area (ERA)
But: requires a lot of flexibility by the participating parties/countries 12

13. 2nd CRUE Research Funding Initiative
Topic “Flood resilient communities – managing the consequences of flooding”
Thematic priorities:
Improving risk awareness and increasing public participation
Flood event management
Both thematic priorities have strong links to the Floods Directive
Call announced in June 2008/ closing date: Oct 15th 08

14. CRUE ERA-Net – Research Agenda
Developing a European research agenda in flood risk management
key goal is providing the basis for effective management of flood risk and delivering sustainable development in Europe
should address the common vision and research needs of various European Member States and the EC in the field of Flood Risk Management in the next few years
will make an important contribution to strengthening the European Research Area (ERA) and support Member States in implementing the EU Floods Directive.

15. CRUE’s Research Agenda – details …
to meet the major challenges European Flood Risk Management faces, CRUE has identified 5 Strategic Areas of Research:
Adaptation and resilience to climate change and economic development
Risk assessment and mapping
Implementing trans-national based strategies on flood event management and recovery
Meeting multiple demands on flood prevention and protection and their sustainable management
Addressing public knowledge on flood risk and enhancing awareness, perception and communications

16. Linking CRUE’s Research Agenda and WG F
Does WG F wish to influence the prioritisation of work in the CRUE research agenda in order to assist Member States in the implementation of the EU Floods Directive? 16 16

17. Making research available - CRUE snapshot
1st Issue published in August 08
Aim
… to allow policy-makers (both on European as well as on national level) a quick snapshot of FRM research that may be relevant to them
Addressing
Key policy-relevant research projects that have been published in the last year
FRM policy/formal developments
Implementation issues regarding WFD, Floods Directive
Update on CRUE’s Research Compass – to allow a quick overview on the spectrum of funded/commissioned FRM research

18. Thank you http://www.crue-eranet.net info@crue-eranet.net