11 February, 2026
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project launches this free training (including full board), which will take place in Alfaro on February 27 and 28, to integrate flood risk management and perception in these professional activities.
2 February, 2026
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
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 […]
16 January, 2026
This is the main action of the environmental restoration project planned in zone 2 of LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, in the province of Zaragoza, and is in addition to the new wetland created in the Meandro de Aguilar.
29 December, 2025
Completed the environmental restoration of the meander of La Roza (Alfaro, La Rioja); the recovery of old river branches in the Soto de Alfaro; the recovery of river space in the mejana del Conde and the Meandro de Aguilar and the adaptation of an irrigation infrastructure (Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, Spain); the restoration of an irrigation infrastructure (Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, Spain); the restoration of an irrigation infrastructure (Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, Spain).
28 November, 2025
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.
19 November, 2025
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, […]
29 October, 2025
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
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.
23 October, 2025
LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 is one of the projects presented as a case study in the water bioengineering block in this Congress held in Vall de Núria (Girona).
10 October, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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 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.
17 July, 2025
A new video LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 shows the effects of floods when they are encountered with narrowing of the river due to the presence of defenses and explains in a simple way the proposals for adaptation to flooding of agriculture associated with the river area.
27 June, 2025
This irrigation campaign, which began in the spring, is the first in which the Irrigation Community of the Huerta del Ebro, in Fuentes de Ebro (Zaragoza), has made use of the new section of its network adapted to the risk of flooding, more efficient, moreover, in which losses and maintenance have been reduced.
23 June, 2025
The objective of this meeting was to establish with them the contents of a training course for this crucial sector for the dissemination to society and also to give them a guided tour of the exhibition “When the river recovers its space” so that they have the keys to be the ones to explain it to those interested.
19 June, 2025
The riparian population and stakeholders are key in the development of LIFE Ebro Resilience actions and this has been fulfilled in the intervention of reopening and reconnection of river branches in this Riojan forest that we have visited, once the work has been completed, with the protagonists of this process.
17 June, 2025
The course “Flood risk: perspectives from flood management and land use planning” will be held on June 23 and 24 in Santander and presents the LIFE Project as one of the case studies.
30 May, 2025
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.
29 May, 2025
This is the opinion of the E:SBN project, which has presented a national catalog dedicated to these measures for adaptation to climate change in Spain.
22 May, 2025
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.
25 April, 2025
- For the second year we participate in this worldwide initiative to bring the population closer to the rivers and their values, with a route that also includes a section of interpretive descent in an inflatable boat to join the two banks of the Ebro.
16 April, 2025
New materials: INUNDABLE, playing and learning about risk and an educational exhibition for schools.
The board game, an innovative proposal, is a free educational resource for schools in the Project's intervention areas and other reference centers for environmental education.
1 April, 2025
The AFLAs are the pilot proposal for reducing flooding in an agricultural area and are intended to be replicated in other European basins with similar problems.
27 March, 2025
On March 25 and 26, a networking conference was held in Arévalo (Ávila), where the Duero has the headquarters of this European project.
26 March, 2025
This intervention, which represents the bulk of the environmental restoration, has been carried out with species typical of the Ebro riverbank for the renaturalization of this space recovered for the river.
19 March, 2025
The month of March, marked by this event for all those involved in water-related issues, is full of proposals of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project with a technical visit, two exhibitions and a storytelling as main actions.
18 March, 2025
An activity organized by the Colegio de Ingenieros Técnicos de Obras Públicos de Aragón and the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project to present the new concept of flood management in the middle stretch of the Ebro.
12 March, 2025
Municipal Flood Risk Action Plans are very useful to reduce the impact of floods in urban areas classified as flood risk, as is the case of the plans developed in the Comunidad Foral in the middle stretch of the Ebro that we compile in this entry.
7 March, 2025
We completed the conditioning of the plot that was left for public use after the process of making land available for the morphological adaptation of this meander in Alfaro, La Rioja, where only the installation of an informative panel remains.
28 February, 2025
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.
26 February, 2025
Gestión Ambiental de Navarra, through the technical management of the Government of Navarra, is working on the creation of wooded areas to recover a degraded space in front of the meander that will be recovered as a fluvial space.
14 February, 2025
Aimed at primary school students, the Orbe droplet explains the changes that the river undergoes and what it means as an ecosystem, including a didactic guide for teachers.
3 February, 2025
The new video of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project shows the space recovered for the river, analyzes with the technicians of the CHE and the Government of La Rioja the interventions carried out and shows the effect of these actions during the last floods.
31 January, 2025
- Completion of the reopening of old river branches to reconnect with the river, thus meeting the environmental objective and also reducing the impact of river flooding.
30 January, 2025
From February 3 to 28 and with the help of the Water and Environment Documentation Center of Zaragoza, we organize this informative exhibition on nature-based solutions to floods.
23 January, 2025
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.
20 January, 2025
The Project has installed the first information panel of the Ebro Resilience actions in this meander that has been recovered as a river space.
28 November, 2024
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.
22 November, 2024
Coordination is one of the key elements of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project and makes it possible to monitor progress or analyze, as in this case, the public participation process that is being developed.
7 November, 2024
The balance of this project to reduce the effects of flooding in the middle stretch of the Ebro, brings together representatives of the institutions and sectors interested in the riverbank that have been actively participating since its inception.
7 November, 2024
Start of works to improve flood resilience in the Osera de Ebro – Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza)
LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 reaches another milestone with the start of work on Phase 1 of the morphological adaptation and river recovery of the Mejana del Conde and the meander of Aguilar, one of the three interventions planned in Zone 2 of the project, which includes the Aragonese section.
31 October, 2024
Phase 1 of the renaturation of this area, integrated in the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, has started and is focused, for the moment, on the left bank of the river with the objective of recovering the connection between the riparian forests and the riverside.
25 October, 2024
The Kantauribai project invited LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 to a networking session on October 23 and 24 to explain its river restoration actions, in response to the visit to the resilience actions last April.
16 October, 2024
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.
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.
2 October, 2024
During the summer period the intervention was stopped due to environmental conditions and during this time the reopened branches already show revegetation.
25 September, 2024
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project organizes this informative activity open to neighbors and interested people in the area, in which prior registration is required to complete the 20 places available.
24 September, 2024
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
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
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.
22 July, 2024
The media is one of the sectors targeted by the actions of the social capacity building plan of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project.
5 July, 2024
A herbaceous cover crop, alfalfa, will be planted next winter, which will prevent tree growth and maintain the water path, reducing the need for human intervention.
26 June, 2024
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.
14 June, 2024
In the meander that has been recovered as a river space, a process has been developed to decide with the territory and different interested sectors the future uses of the area, proposals that are already becoming a reality.
4 June, 2024
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.
31 May, 2024
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project organized a conference, mainly aimed at stakeholders of the Irrigation Community of La Huerta del Ebro, to inform about the measures proposed to reduce damage in extraordinary floods and that have European funding and the state and regional administrations.
30 May, 2024
The European Commission has invited the project to participate in its annual Green Week in Brussels, specifically in the session dedicated to the restoration and protection of the water cycle.
24 May, 2024
Periodic monitoring to review and check the status of all actions, schedule the next milestones and resolve possible doubts.
20 May, 2024
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.
13 May, 2024
On May 11, we joined this initiative that led hundreds of people to walk the river paths in the five continents, and together with the riverside population we completed the route from the meander of El Señorío (Castejón, in Navarra) and the meander of La Roza (Alfaro, La Rioja).
1 May, 2024
- 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
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.
29 April, 2024
On April 28, Fuenteros and neighbors from nearby towns enjoyed a walk along the meander of Aguilar, in the Ebro river in Fuentes, in an informative and recreational day organized by the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project.
16 April, 2024
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
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
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.
2 April, 2024
On April 28th, an informative guided tour on the Ebro River and the risk of flooding will be organized. During the morning we will go through the meander of Aguilar, in the municipality of Fuentes de Ebro. There, we will see birds, learn about the works to be carried out and some concepts of fluvial dynamics. Sign up.
22 March, 2024
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 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
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
29 February, 2024
The Project organizes an open forum on future uses in this meander that will recover its function as a natural space, a public activity that was also carried out to gather proposals in the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro.
21 February, 2024
From the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project we are involving the local population in the development of the interventions we carry out for flood risk reduction. Therefore, we invite all interested people to a deliberative day in which we […]
20 February, 2024
The laying of the new concrete pipe, with a total length of 2,300 meters in this phase, which moves this infrastructure away from the riverbed in the Huerta del Ebro Irrigation Community, is in progress.
9 February, 2024
- These works are being carried out by the Government of La Rioja and will involve the planting of more than 4,600 specimens of riparian species imitating the natural growth of riparian vegetation.
2 February, 2024
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.
30 January, 2024
The scarcity of winter rains has allowed progress to be made on the work, but unfortunately it is detrimental to crops. For this reason, temporary irrigation has been set up in the fields surrounding the works to save crops, in agreement with the irrigation community and in keeping with the Project's spirit of participation and cooperation.
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
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.
29 December, 2023
In addition to the stable participation groups that have been running for over a year and the activities for different sectors included in the capacity building plan, the project has launched these months the first actions of assistance and open participation, expanding the public and involvement with the LIFE proposals.
29 December, 2023
The actions have made significant progress with the closing of the main interventions in the town of Alfaro, in La Rioja, and the start of actions in section 2 of the project, in the province of Zaragoza.
12 December, 2023
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
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.
4 December, 2023
The first action will reduce the exposure to flooding of the irrigation system of the Irrigation Community of the Huerta del Ebro, an intervention carried out by the Government of Aragon, to define the actions has been counted throughout the process with the users through the stable groups of participation of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project
29 November, 2023
Both the participation plan and the proposals to increase social capabilities and knowledge about floods have teachers and other educational profiles as a key sector. For this reason, specific actions are started with them, such as the one aimed at analyzing the material that is being prepared for schoolchildren.
23 November, 2023
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.
23 November, 2023
We continue to congratulate ourselves with the Ebro Resilience strategy and the new actions for adaptation to floods. Its participatory proposal, with our colleague Alba Ballester at the head, has been recognized for its actions to involve the population and the search for conflict resolution.
17 November, 2023
After a year of work, this phase of the intervention in Alfaro (La Rioja) by the CHE has concluded and all that remains is the river restoration to be carried out by the Government of La Rioja.
30 October, 2023
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project collaborated in the organization of this session aimed at journalists and journalism students, one of the main sectors to prepare the population for flood risk, to increase their knowledge of this phenomenon and to explain and inform about adaptation actions.
24 October, 2023
We gathered the co-creation group dedicated to mitigation and adaptation actions in zone 2, the Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro section, to present the proposal for the lateral buffer zones.
20 October, 2023
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
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.
8 September, 2023
Stakeholders were able to learn in detail about the planned intervention to reduce the risk of flooding, future environmental restoration and participatory actions.
7 September, 2023
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 […]
28 August, 2023
This phase consists of the morphological adaptation of the Ebro in Zone 2 of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project.
10 August, 2023
In addition to this meeting with the representatives of the city councils, a public information day has been organized for the first week of September, which will include a visit to the intervention area.
12 July, 2023
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
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.
8 June, 2023
Citizen science: population and partners present proposals for a virtual platform to monitor actions
The new tool will allow the exchange of images related to the monitoring of the project interventions and to have references of their behavior after their completion. To identify the different functionalities of the project he held an online meeting
19 May, 2023
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
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.
4 May, 2023
We held the open forum on future recreational uses on the land of this meander recovered as a space for the river with the participation of new stakeholders in the adaptation measures and natural spaces.
28 April, 2023
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.
19 April, 2023
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project is characterized by its continuous presence in the field, in the intervention areas in the middle stretch of the Ebro.
On April 18, we visited the so-called Zone 2 of the Project, where the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro (Zaragoza) section will be intervened.