Water Family Meeting and Symposium on Water Equity in South-East Europe and the Mediterranean 28-29 March 2019 Palazzo Zorzi, Venice (Italy) - Elena Bojilova, Secretary, IHP National Committee, Bulgaria

1. Bulgarian National Committee for
the International Hydrological
Programme of UNESCO
and National Institute of
Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia,
Bulgaria
28-29 March, Venice

2. https://www.danubeconference2017.org/index.php

3. The XXVII Conference OF THE DANUBIAN COUNTRIES
ON HYDROLOGICAL FORECASTING AND HYDROLOGICAL
BASES OF WATER MANAGEMENT
• It was hosted in Golden sands, Bulgaria from 26-
28 September 2017 in accordance with old
traditions of the Danubian conferences started
1961.
• It has been organized jointly by the IHP
Committee of Bulgaria, Bulgarian National
Commission for UNESCO, under the partial
financial support of UNESCO Regional Bureau for
Science and Culture in Europe (Venice, Italy) and
the National Institute of Meteorology and
Hydrology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

4. The XXVII Conference OF THE DANUBIAN
COUNTRIES
• The overall objective of the Conference is to
contribute to the strengthening of the
cooperation of Danube countries under the
overall umbrella of UNESCO-IHP.
• On the site of the event we welcomed 68
scientists in the broad filed of hydrology (35
women and 33 men). It total we received 82
papers separated in 8 topics.
• The conference brings together 187 authors (86
women and 101 men) from 19 countries from the
Danube River Basin.

5. The XXVII Conference OF THE DANUBIAN
COUNTRIES
• The specific aims of the conference include: to
faster exchange of hydrological basic
information; to improve and adapt new
models and techniques for hydrological
forecasting; to deal with disasters in an
appropriate manner; to better articulate the
role of hydrological and biotic processes in
aquatic systems; to link different filed of
science, etc.

6. • On the second working day of the Conference
- 27 September 2017, in parallel session the
meeting of the National comities of the IHP of
UNESCO was organized. We had participation
from: Slovak, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia,
Romania, Czech Republic, Serbia, Ukraine, and
Bulgaria. Note was prepared with some
discussions and propositions.

11. Zero draft IHP-IX
Supporting decision making and assessing uncertainty in
a dynamic reality - High (H);
• Adaptation to global changes in the Anthropocene
• Resilience to hydrological hazards and disasters
– Vulnerability and resilience of cities/urban environments to water
scarcity and disasters
– Drought and floods
• Water quality and pollution control
Achieving sustainable water management – Medium (M);
• Water Environment Food Energy nexus, synergies and
tradeoffs between SDGs.
Addressing data and information gap in support of water
resources management: - Low (L);

12. NIMH at present
• According to the transitional and concluding
orders of the Law on the State Budget of the
Republic of Bulgaria 2019 (State Gazette §1- §6,
SG No. 103 / 13.12.2018), since 1st of January
2019, the National Institute of Meteorology and
Hydrology from a basic unit at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences (NIMH-BAS) is transformed
into a National Institute of Meteorology and
Hydrology (NIMH) as a legal entity, the Head of
which is the budget authorising officer of the
budget to the Bulgarian Ministry of Education
and Science.

13. • Since the January 1, 2019 the property, the
archive, as well as all the rights and duties of
the NIMH-BAS are transferred to NIMH to the
Minister of Education and Science i.e. there is
a universal succession between NIMH-BAS
and NIMH.

14. • No financial help or subsidy from NIMH for
the need of Bulgarian NC IHP UNESCO ;
• The institute is providing only office space,
consumable, etc.
Thank you very much!