People and Projects Solving Freshwater Restoration Challenges

People and Projects Solving Freshwater Restoration Challenges in HUNGARY:

Tamás Gruber

Living Rivers Programme Manager at WWF Hungary

EC / PolicyMakers / Funders / Government

River side-arem rehabilitation
Hydrology
Long-term monitoring
Ecological status
River-floodplain connection

Tamás was selected for a showcase because of his experiemce in leading river restoration projects with WWF Hungary.

István Juhász

Chief technical expert at West-transdanubian Water Directorate, Department of Water Protection and River Basin Management

Restoration Engineers / Consultants / Practitioners

River revitalization
Hydrology
Hydrogeology

István was selected for a showcase because of his experience leading restoration projects.

Gábor Várbíró

senior research fellow - HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research

Scientists & Researchers

long term dataset
data analyses

Gábor was selected for a showcase because he is working in freshwater restoration and a co-author of an important article.

Dr Olga Baranyai

Chief technical expert, biologist at West-transdanubian Water Directorate

EC / PolicyMakers / Funders / Government

Hydrological improvement
Pollution Reduction

Olga was selected for a showcase because of her experience in leading a river restoration project in a Hungariaon-Austrian Interreg Project.

Zoltán Ecsedi

Life+ project leader at Hortobágy Environmental Association

EC / PolicyMakers / Funders / Government

Rehabilitation of River and network of wetlands
Hydrology
Climate change
Integration of key stakeholders into the project

Zoltán was selected for a showcase because of his expertise in leading two river-wetland mosaic restoration LIFE+ projects.

Miklós Gyalai-Korpos

Riversaver, Head of Innovation and Technology Unit

Plastic Cup Society

Scientists & Researchers

plastic pollution of rivers
cleanups
recycling and upcycling
awareness raising
citizen science

Miklós Gyalai-Korpos has an Msc in bioengineering and then PhD in chemistry and chemical engineering. He is part of the Plastic Cup fleet at the Tisza river, dedicated to cleaning the Tisza river.

Attila David Molnár

river cleanup expert, science communication advisor
Plastic Cup initiative.

NGOs & Civil Society

plastic pollution
river restoration
plastic recycling
Blue economy

Attila David Molnár is a molecular biologist, with a doctorate in scientific filmmaking. He is an expert in river pollution, having extensive experience dealing with the grave situation of rivers in the Danube River Basin.

Széchenyi István University, Water Resources Research Group

Dr. Katalin Bene, DALIA project DPS-1, project technical manager

Emil Janák, DALIA project DPS-1, senior expert

Gergely Ámon, DALIA project DPS-1, researcher

Attila Kálmán, DALIA project DPS-1, researcher

Máté Chappon, DALIA project DPS-1, researcher, assistant manager

Scientists & Researchers

Floodplain rehabilitation
Szigetköz inland delta
Integrated water resources management
Nature Based Solutions
Stakeholder involvement

Széchenyi István University, Water Resources Research Group was selected because they are leaders and participants in scientific research and technology, methodology development.