2 February, 2026

Ebro Resilience Wetlands: a landscape to protect and a natural technology

In the areas of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, three new wetlands have been created (La Nava and La Roza, in Alfaro and Meandro de Aguilar in Fuentes de Ebro) and lobes are being developed, wetlands that reduce the energy of currents and thus erosion.
23 January, 2026

Checking compliance with objectives: work on monitoring ecological status

Through action C1 Environmental Monitoring, the project carries out a technical, continuous and rigorous follow-up to check whether the interventions are meeting the planned objectives. To this end, it periodically carries out data collection campaigns, evaluation of indicators and status […]
29 December, 2025

Ebro Resilience 2025 Strategy: first assessment of the impact of interventions and new proposals

This year there have been new developments in the actions of all partners, among them, the end of interventions in the Sobradiel - Torres de Berrellén and Alcalá de Ebro- Remolinos - Luceni sections, both in Zaragoza; the progress in the project of phase 2 of El Ortigoso (Milagro, Navarra) and the presentation of the alternative studies of the Azagra (Navarra) and Utebo-Zaragoza sections.
28 November, 2025

Audiovisual Bathymetries Ebro Resilience: studying the river bed in its middle section.

A mapping of the submerged relief of the middle Ebro, between Logroño and La Zaida, is being carried out during 2025, which will allow a comparison with the one carried out between 2019-2021 and draw conclusions with objective data on sedimentation, deposition and erosion.
26 November, 2025

Call for subsidies for adaptation to flood risk in municipalities of Aragón is open

The Government of Aragon, through the Aragonese Water Institute, has launched a new call for the period 2026-2027 and with a total amount of 600,000 euros, which includes two lines of action: drafting and approval of municipal plans and preventive actions of danger.
19 November, 2025

New proposals: the Local Entities Forum is born, working with technicians and municipal representatives.

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project opens new spaces for the exchange of knowledge and to generate learning. The Local Entities Forums are conceived as a set of actions to strengthen the capacities of local authorities (mayors, technical staff, secretariat, […]
31 October, 2025

The Ebro Resilience actions between Milagro and Alfaro generate benefits for the entire stretch of the river

The Strategy organized a public session in the Cosistorio alfareño to report on the status of the actions and to know the perception of the inhabitants of the section regarding the works and the risk of flooding.
29 October, 2025

On route through the meander of Aguilar, in Fuentes de Ebro: an activity around the river and the floods.

On October 18, neighbors of the lower Ebro riverbank joined an informative tour organized by the Ebro Resilience P1 Project to get closer to the groves and learn about the flood risk adaptation actions being carried out in the Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro section.
24 October, 2025

Ebro Resilience focuses one of the main sessions of the Water Engineering Conference 2025

The actions of adaptation to flood risk coordinated among the Administrations were presented to the plenary of this technical forum and the interventions of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project between Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro were the protagonists of the technical visit of the event.
21 October, 2025

Public conference How are the first Ebro Resilience actions between Milagro and Alfaro working out?

On October 30, the Strategy is organizing a session for the presentation of results to analyze, together with the riparian population, the effect of the interventions implemented and to know which ones are missing to complete the so-called combined actions section, a set of actions that offer a global benefit against flood risk.
10 October, 2025

An October of activities in Fuentes de Ebro: photos, route and more to get closer to the river

The exhibition Cuando el río recupera su espacio (When the river recovers its space) opened this month at the Centro Público de Educación de Personas Adultas of the town and a guided tour has been organized for its students and an interpretative route through the Meandro de Aguilar, open to the entire population.
1 October, 2025

European Commission highlights the progress of LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 and the coordination of its partners

The European Union has shown its interest in the actions for the reduction of flood risk in the middle stretch of the Ebro, with significant progress in the planned work and this was conveyed by the representative of CINEA, Federico de Filippi, who attended the coordination and monitoring meetings and, together with institutional representatives, visited the intervention areas of the Project.
29 September, 2025

The Ebro recovers 23 hectares as a fluvial space and adds a new wetland in the Osera de Ebro – Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza)

Through PHASE 1 of the adaptation to flood risk of an agricultural area of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project, which has eliminated the narrowing of the river in the Mejana del Conde and the Meandro de Aguilar.
24 September, 2025

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 presents its proposal for adaptation and flood risk reduction in key European fora

During the month of October, the LIFE project and the Ebro Resilience Strategy, as a reference in flood management, will be present at the event organized by the European Executive Agency for Climate, Infrastructure and Environment (CINEA) and at the European Week of Regions and Cities
22 September, 2025

Enjoying the river and learning about floods: two new interpretive trails in October

On Saturday, October 4, we will walk through the Ebro copses between Castejón (Navarra) and Alfaro (La Rioja) and on Saturday, October 18, we will walk through the meander of Aguilar, in Fuentes de Ebro, where we will be able to see the works in progress for the adaptation to flooding in this area.
11 September, 2025

Tools to broaden knowledge about rivers: a glossary to better understand each other

One of the action lines of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project is social capacity building: increasing shared knowledge on rivers and floods, fostering networking among the riparian population, facilitating common tools to be more resilient, having a reference glossary to use the same terms and understand them, is a step in that direction.
4 August, 2025

The exhibition ‘When the river recovers its space’ spends the summer in Alfaro

The Interpretation Center 'Los Sotos de Alfaro y sus Cigüeñas' hosts this photographic exhibition linked to the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project and focuses on adaptation to floods through nature-based solutions and can be visited free of charge until September 21.
28 July, 2025

Third call for subsidies from the Government of Navarra for adaptation to flood risk

This call will be open until September 1 for individuals or legal entities, private entities and communities of owners in the middle stretch of the Navarre Ebro and its main tributaries (Ega, Arga, Aragón, Alhama, Queiles and Huecha) within the framework of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and with NextGeneration Funds.
12 June, 2025

The alternative to reduce the risk of flooding in the Utebo-Zaragoza section, to be analyzed at a public workshop on June 19

The Ebro Resilience Strategy will hold next Thursday, June 19, a public workshop to present the alternative to reduce the risk of flooding in Section 10 of the Ebro, which covers the course of the river as it passes through […]
10 June, 2025

Informative sessions on the third call for subsidies for adaptation to flooding of the Government of Navarra

With the aim of disseminating and clarifying all doubts in good time, the Government of Navarra, with the collaboration of the public company OREKAN- Environmental Management of Navarra, has organized two webinars to present what will be the third call […]
5 June, 2025

The Government of La Rioja brings together riparian municipalities to present their aid for adaptation and discuss good practices in riverbeds

Within the scope of the Ebro Resilience Strategy, the conference “Good practices in actions for the conservation, maintenance and improvement of riverbeds in urban sections” was organized.
30 May, 2025

Capacity building: new views on the river and more knowledge on floods for the riparian population

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 has not stopped this month of May with its offer of actions aimed at different sectors, more than 150 people have participated in the activities, from a popular interpretive descent or specific activities with parents of schoolchildren, an exhibition, technical visits, a route or a storyteller.
22 May, 2025

Ebro Resilience receives the LUZ VERDE award, an initiative of Onda Cero and WWF.

The Strategy has been recognized in the Water category, which distinguishes actions that improve sustainability and the natural environment and fight against climate change, and where its commitment to coordination between Administrations has been highlighted.
28 February, 2025

The exhibition “When the river recovers its space”, a meeting place to talk about adaptation and flood risks

This photographic exhibition premiered in February at the CDAMAZ in Zaragoza, accompanied by informative activities with the general public and journalists, and now begins a tour of other spaces in the middle stretch of the Ebro.
21 February, 2025

Start of the public information process for Phase 2 of the project for the morphological adaptation and environmental restoration of the Ebro River in the “El Ortigoso” area.

Interested parties have a period of 20 days for public consultation, during which they may submit any allegations and comments they deem appropriate. The Eonfederation of the Ebro River (CHE) has initiated the public information process of Phase 2 of […]
23 January, 2025

Tools for the adaptation of the riparian population: tips for self-protection against floods

Responding to the request of the people participating in the different groups of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, we compiled information from different official sources of civil protection in order to face the flood phenomenon.
28 November, 2024

The second phase of the adaptation of the irrigation infrastructure in Fuentes de Ebro (Zaragoza) begins.

The work on the new underground pipeline, far from the bed of the Huerta del Ebro Irrigation Community (Zaragoza), is focused on the last kilometer of the infrastructure and is being carried out on dates that do not interfere with the irrigation campaign.
16 October, 2024

Navarre farmers and municipal representatives learn about Ebro Resilience experiences in Aragon

In October, the Government of Navarra, through GAN-NIK and together with the CHE, organized two conferences to inform municipal representatives and farmers of the region about the Ebro Resilience interventions in Aragón to adapt agricultural areas to floods and to assess the value of reproducing them.
15 October, 2024

Ebro Resilience environmental actions: a fish pass in El Bocal (Navarre)

In addition to reducing the risk of flooding in the middle stretch of the Ebro, the Strategy aims to improve its ecological state and this action seeks to improve the longitudinal continuity of the river, allowing fish to pass through the two existing dams at El Bocal.
8 October, 2024

Resolution of subsidies for the adaptation to flooding of the Government of La Rioja.

The Directorate General for Environmental Quality, Climate Change and Water has published this resolution indicating the subsidies granted in the middle stretch of the Ebro river in La Rioja within the framework of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.
3 October, 2024

Representatives of Navarre municipalities visit Ebro Resilience actions in Aragón to adapt to floods

The Government of Navarra, together with GAN-NIK and the CHE, partners of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project, have organized two workshops, one already held with municipal representatives and another to be held in the future with farmers, to learn about the functioning of flood areas in agricultural areas and to assess their replication.
24 September, 2024

Municipal Civil Protection Plans for floods

More tools for self-protection, Ebro Resilience has compiled on its website the plans of the Aragonese municipalities of the middle stretch of the Ebro, permanent information, forecast and warning devices, with the capacity to protect the threatened population and reduce the negative effects of floods.
4 September, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: a knowledge network on floods and replication of results

Networking and knowledge exchange and the transfer and replication of results are two lines of work of the Project, which have already taken Ebro Resilience technicians to 14 national and international forums, congresses and conferences.
19 August, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 materials: flood management information sheets

5 fact sheets of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and 5 of the LIFE Project have been published, covering various aspects of flood risk management: self-protection, measures, environmental benefits of floods, thus creating documents to improve social knowledge of this phenomenon.
26 June, 2024

Getting to know the actions for the recovery of river branches in the Soto de Alfaro

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project invited all the members of the participation spaces to visit the intervention area to recover the functionality of the meander with the reopening of the water paths that were typical of the Ebro.
21 June, 2024

4.6 million euros for the Ebro Resilience Strategy

River restoration projects approved for sections 7 Alcalá de Ebro, Remolinos and Luceni and 9 Torres de Berrellén and Sobradiel. The Official Gazette of Aragon has announced the approval of the projects of “River restoration and habitat improvement in sections […]
4 June, 2024

Field visits to explain the adaptation to flooding in the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza).

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 starts field sessions for owners and tenants of plots of land to be integrated in the future Lateral Flow Buffer Zones, an innovative intervention to adapt agricultural land to the Ebro floods.
20 May, 2024

Nature-based solutions: recovery of river branches in Soto de Alfaro begins

This intervention is part of Zone 1 of LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, in what is called the combined section of actions to mitigate the effects of floods and will allow the recovery of the functionality of the meander, helping to fulfill its role as a fluvial space.
6 May, 2024

Completion of the morphological adaptation and environmental restoration works on the Ebro river as it passes through the El Estajao site in Alfaro (La Rioja)

The actions, within the framework of the Ebro Resilience Strategy, have involved an investment of over 2 million euros. The works of morphological adaptation and environmental restoration of the Ebro river in the “El Estajao” site, located in Alfaro (La […]
1 May, 2024

Interpretative descents on the Ebro: more knowledge about the river and the Resilience actions

- This April, one of the most attractive lines of actions for strengthening social capacities and increasing knowledge about the river was launched. Journalism students from the faculties of Aragon, high school students from Alfaro and Castejón or technicians from other projects have already made interpretative descents with us.
30 April, 2024

Phase 1 of the adapted irrigation network in Fuentes de Ebro has been tested.

The first phase of the new pipeline for the irrigation system of the Huerta del Ebro Irrigation Community, in Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, has been completed, reaching 1,350 meters of this infrastructure. During the last week of April, a test run of the installation was carried out, with satisfactory results, and it could be used by its users immediately.
18 April, 2024

Informative meetings to present the river restoration projects for two stretches of the Ebro river

The actions, within the framework of the Ebro Resilience Strategy, will have an investment of 4.6 million euros. The Aragonese Water Institute (IAA) has held a round of meetings open to the public to present the river restoration projects for […]
16 April, 2024

Commitment to adaptation in the middle segment: subsidies through NextGeneration Funds in La Rioja,

The Autonomous Communities of the middle stretch of the Ebro, members of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and partners of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project have launched lines of aid for private individuals and local entities, aimed at protection and adaptation to flood risk included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the example being the publication of aid from the Government of La Rioja on April 12.
15 April, 2024

Informative sessions of the Government of Navarre on subsidies for adaptation to flood risks

On April 30 and May 2 and 3, the Directorate General for the Environment of Navarra will resolve doubts about the two calls for subsidies addressed to local entities for actions for protection and adaptation to flood risk, both with NextGeneration funds and one of them focused on the municipalities within the scope of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.
12 April, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: hosts basin organizations from all over Spain to discuss adaptation and public participation

Up to 40 technical colleagues from state and regional river basin organizations have learned first-hand about the Project's ongoing actions and its pioneering proposal for social participation, during the conferences held on April 10 and 11.
27 March, 2024

Drafting of construction projects for eleven sections of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.

The Ebro Resilience Strategy launches the bidding process for four consulting contracts for the drafting of the construction projects of sections 3A, 3B, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12B, 15 and 16. The Ebro Resilience Strategy is developing a […]
22 March, 2024

Ebro Resilience Strategy and LIFE Ebro Resilience Project P1

Coordination and participation as a tool to achieve a more flood-resilient middle Ebro, improving the ecological status and local biodiversity. In the framework of World Water Day, which is celebrated every March 22nd, the Strategy Ebro Strategy Resilience Strategy Strategy […]
21 March, 2024

The relief channel in the meander of La Roza: a riparian corridor with more continuity and diversity for habitats.

The restoration of vegetation that is being carried out with vegetation typical of the Ebro riverbank in this channel, created during the morphological adaptation, gives us the excuse to talk about this type of intervention.
13 March, 2024

Ebro Resilience Interventions: a review in images of the last flooding of the river

The last week of February has seen a flood of flows in the middle stretch of the Ebro due to the rains recorded in the Ebro basin, an episode at the limit of what is considered extraordinary that leaves us these images of the response of the Ebro Resilience intervention typologies in this stretch
2 February, 2024

Wetlands in the Ebro Resilience territory: La Nava and La Roza, Alfaro (la Rioja)

In 2023, the meando de La Roza has inaugurated a new wetland area integrated in the morphological adaptation carried out through the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, in addition to the one created in 2020 in La Nava as part of the actions of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.
24 January, 2024

Combined action section: succession of natural measures with global benefit to reduce flood damages.

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project integrates its zone 1, between Alfaro, La Rioja and Castejón, Navarra, in the combined section that includes several proposals such as the reconnection of meanders, relief channels, recovery of old river branches and enlargement of the river space
19 January, 2024

Public information on the projects for El Señorío (Navarra) and phase 1 of the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza)

New advances in key projects of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 for 2024, which is expected to be a busy year in its two tranches. The last step has been the approval of the public information files of the projects of El Señorío (in Castejón, Navarra) and the improvement of flood resilience - phase 1 between Osera de Ebro and Fuentes de Ebro, in Zaragoza.
19 December, 2023

The second phase of planting in “El Estajao” (Alfaro), the final stretch of the environmental restoration work

The first planting phase carried out last February has already shown its effectiveness in flood events. A total of 21,100 specimens will be reached between the two phases, which apply techniques that mimic the natural distribution of riparian vegetation.
12 December, 2023

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, included in the viewer of good practices in rural areas

The Project is one of the actions included in this new tool of the National Rural Network of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food because of its scope of action and because it is innovative, transferable to other areas and contributes to the improvement of work.
11 December, 2023

New: follow-up studies on the technique for the recovery of old river branches

The Ebro Hydrographic Confederation has published two studies that increase the knowledge on the evolution of areas where old branches of the river have been recovered, one of the actions included in the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 works.
23 November, 2023

National and international contacts for LIFE Ebro Resilience project

In recent weeks, the Project has been expanding its professional and institutional network by participating in various technical forums and hosting international delegations. The example of LIFE actions is being introduced to new audiences.
20 October, 2023

Ebro Resilience at the Water Engineering Conference: green infrastructures and adaptation measures

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project has presented in Cartagena a summary poster of the project and an article explaining the positive results expected from the interventions, reducing the risk of flooding and recovering 60 hectares of river space.
20 September, 2023

Two years of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project: progress and proposals for participation

During this time the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro, has been recovered as a river space and has generated a new protected area in La Rioja and more than 40 participatory actions have been carried out, most of them related to new forms of involvement of the population that represent a milestone at European level.
7 September, 2023

See the winning image of the II Edition of the Ebro Resilience Photo Contest

In addition to the winning photograph, five runner-up prizes were awarded to the photographs with the highest number of votes. The Ebro Resilience Strategy once again invited its community to participate in the 2nd Edition of the Ebro Resilience Photo […]
26 July, 2023

Ebro Resilience environmental actions: permeabilization of the Pina Dam, Ebro River (Zaragoza).

In addition to reducing the risk of flooding in the middle stretch of the Ebro, the Strategy aims to improve the ecological status of the intervention sections, such as this intervention, which will maintain the use of the infrastructure by improving the longitudinal continuity of the river.
12 July, 2023

Navarra Government announces subsidies for adaptation to flood risk in the Ebro Basin

The Government of Navarra, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), has called for grants for actions to adapt to the risk of flooding of buildings, equipment and facilities or existing farms in the Ebro Basin.
23 June, 2023

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: the Ebro basin, intervention model in RestauraRíos

The actions planned for the river and the proposals for participation and capacity building have passed through the plenary and parallel sessions of the IV Iberian Congress on River Restoration, the most important event on river restoration in Spain and Portugal.
19 May, 2023

LIFE news: intervention in La Roza increases the Natura Network protected area in the Ebro

We celebrate the European Day of the Natura 2000 Network. The land reclaimed for the river, a total of 22 hectares, has been incorporated into the Natura 2000 Network "ZEC Sotos y Riberas del Ebro" through Decree 46/2022 of August 17 of the Government of La Rioja.
16 May, 2023

Ebro Resilience experiences will be presented at the IV Iberian Congress on River Restoration

Through scientific communications and case studies in the plenary of the congress, posters on specific actions and presence in spaces for reflection, the innovative approach to flood risk reduction will have a special role in this event, next June, in Toledo.
28 April, 2023

Green infrastructures and adaptation measures in a Conference of the Colegio de Caminos

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 is presented in a new professional forum to explain its proposals and actions. The Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos invited the Project to the conference "Response to extraordinary risks", which was held in Madrid on April 27.