Sessions

Parallel Sessions 

Topic 1: Governance, policies, and management approaches

• Global examples of governance and policies to ensure sustainability in hydropower projects

• Hydropower in the context of EU legislations to protect and restore river ecosystems

• Hydropower in developing countries: Challenges and solutions

• Water management from a (transboundary) River-Sea perspective

Topic 2: Hydropower and water management

• Climate change and water management: Accounting for droughts, floods, and cumulative impacts

• Hydropower in the context of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

• Sustainable hydropower development in tropical and arid regions: Ecological and social challenges

• Hydropower and integrated management: Balancing hydropower and ecosystem services

Topic 3: River continuity and connectivity

• Reconnecting rivers and floodplains: Innovative ecological solutions

• New experiences and approaches to sediment management

• Practical approaches following the EU Nature Restoration Law

Topic 4: River flow and habitat restoration

• Hydropeaking: Balancing increasing flexibility needs with ecological requirements and ecosystem services provision

• Environmental flows: Integrating ecosystem needs into hydropower management

• Advances in hydro-morphological river habitat restoration

• Rethinking reservoirs: Habitat re-structuring and multifunctional uses and benefits

Topic 5: Innovation in hydropower technology and monitoring techniques

• Innovation in hydropower technology to reduce impacts on the river ecology

• Smart hydropower: Leveraging hydro-informatics, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and big data

• Monitoring insights on the functionality of environmental measures

• Advances in environmental DNA (eDNA) applications for ecological monitoring