The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1va Project will participate in the summer courses of the Menéndez Pelayo University (UIMP). The course Flood risk: perspectives from flood management and land use planning will be held at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander on 23 and 24 June and includes Ebro Resilience as a case study.
The course is organized by the UIMP in collaboration with Botín and for information and registration:
The meeting, with a topical and crucial issue for society, aims to analyze flood management from different perspectives by experts in the field belonging to the public administration, research and the private sector. In this context, experiences and case studies in Spain will be shared that exemplify success stories and illustrate possible ways of improvement, a block in which LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 is inserted.
Among other issues, and together with the presentation of these cases, the European Flood Directive will be addressed by the Deputy Director General for Water Protection and Risk Management in the Directorate General for Water of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Francisco Javier Sánchez, or the economic impact of floods with the intervention of Alberto Garrido, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Statistics and Management and Business of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and of the Botín Foundation’s Water Observatory.
The course program is as follows:
Monday, 23 June 2025
10:00 Welcome and Introduction of the course. Lucia De Stefano
10:15 The Flood Risk Assessment and Management Directive 2007/60: status of its implementation in Spain and lessons learned. Francisco Javier Sánchez Martínez
11:45 Plans and policies of the Government of Cantabria in flood risk management from land use planning. María Tejerina Puente
12:45 The role of basin organizations in flood management. José María Sanz de Galdeano Equiza
15:30 Economic impacts of floods in Spain. Alberto Garrido
16:30 Floods in the urban water cycle. Vicente Fajardo Montañana
17:30 Sharing and discussion
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
09:30 Case study: LIFE EbroResilience Project (Ebro basin)
Eduardo Murillo Peñacoba
Alba Ballester Ciuró
David Gargantilla Cañero
Carolina García Suikkanen
11:30 Management of the Congost River in its urban stretch: Challenges and solutions
Xavier Romero Hidalgo
13:00 Case Study: Naturalization and Flood Prevention in the Basque Country
Aitziber Urquijo Luengo
14:30 Closing ceremony