Neuerscheinung: Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt Band 162/1–4
RESOURCE
Resources of groundwater, harmonized at Cross-Border and Pan-European scale.
2018
The RESOURCE project proposal aims at demonstrating the potentials of the harmonization
of information about Europe’s groundwater resources.
Although EU member states generally have a comprehensive overview of the groundwater resources in
their own homeland and have delineated groundwater bodies for the EU Water Framework Directive, a
coherent overview of all fresh groundwater over Europe is not available for policy development and
evaluation. The RESOURCE project proposal aims at demonstrating the potentials of the harmonization
of information about Europe’s groundwater resources through cross-border demonstrations projects,
through harmonized characterization approaches for Karst and Chalk aquifers and through a first
information product at Pan-European scale where available data is compiled and integrated to produce a
map of the fresh groundwater resources of Europe. The set of deliverables of the RESOURCE project
will provide good practices in providing harmonized data and information across borders for
assessments of the 3D structure of aquifers, the water volumes available, and the water fluxes and water
quality of the resource. Harmonization of such hydrogeological information is a prerequisite for any
transboundary groundwater management. A range of regional and national stakeholders will be involved
in the work in order to ensure both interaction with authorities that manage and protect groundwater
resources and with end-users, thus maximizing dissemination of the results and providing them with
easy-access tools through the cooperation with the GeoERA Information Platform Project, jointly
prioritizing the information products that are most beneficial for society. The information products to be
delivered will serve as a first prototype example of information to be accessible within a Geological
Service for Europe.
Project partners:
» Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO, Netherlands) – Project coordination
» DELTARES (DLT, Netherlands)
» Albanian Geological Survey (AGS, Albania)
» Flanders Environment Agency (VMM, Belgium)
» Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN, Belgium)
» Geological Survey of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FZZG, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
» Hrvatski geološki institut - Croatian Geological Survey (HGI-CGS, Croatia)
» Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of Cyprus (GSD, Cyprus)
» Czech Geological Survey (CGS, Czech Republic)
» Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS, Denmark)
» Eesti Geoloogiateenistus (EGT, Estonia)
» Geologian Tutkimuskeskus (GTK, Finland)
» Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM, France) – Project coordination
» Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary (MBFSZ, Hungary)
» Islenskar orkurannsoknir - Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR, Iceland)
» Geological Survey Ireland (GSI, Ireland)
» Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale – Piemonte (ARPAP, Italy)
» Regione Toskana (RT, Italy)
» Regione Umbria (RU, Italy)
» Latvian Centre of Geology, Environment and Meteorology (LEGMC, Latvia)
» Lietuvos Geologijos Tarnyba prie Aplinkos Ministerijos (LGT, Lithuania)
» Service Géologique du Luxembourg (SGL, Luxembourg)
» Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure (MTI, Malta)
» Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute (PGI-NRI, Poland)
» Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG, Portugal)
» Institutul Geologic al României (IGR, Romania)
» Geological Survey of Serbia (GSS, Serbia)
» Geološki Zavod Slovenije (GeoZS, Slovenia)
» Instituto Geologico y Minero de España (IGME, Spain)
» Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning (SGU, Sweden)
» GeoInform of Ukraine (State Geological and Subsurface Survey of Ukraine)
» Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, United Kingdom)
» Geologischer Dienst Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW, Germany)
» Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO, Netherlands) – Project coordination
» DELTARES (DLT, Netherlands)
» Albanian Geological Survey (AGS, Albania)
» Flanders Environment Agency (VMM, Belgium)
» Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN, Belgium)
» Geological Survey of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FZZG, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
» Hrvatski geološki institut - Croatian Geological Survey (HGI-CGS, Croatia)
» Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of Cyprus (GSD, Cyprus)
» Czech Geological Survey (CGS, Czech Republic)
» Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS, Denmark)
» Eesti Geoloogiateenistus (EGT, Estonia)
» Geologian Tutkimuskeskus (GTK, Finland)
» Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM, France) – Project coordination
» Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary (MBFSZ, Hungary)
» Islenskar orkurannsoknir - Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR, Iceland)
» Geological Survey Ireland (GSI, Ireland)
» Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale – Piemonte (ARPAP, Italy)
» Regione Toskana (RT, Italy)
» Regione Umbria (RU, Italy)
» Latvian Centre of Geology, Environment and Meteorology (LEGMC, Latvia)
» Lietuvos Geologijos Tarnyba prie Aplinkos Ministerijos (LGT, Lithuania)
» Service Géologique du Luxembourg (SGL, Luxembourg)
» Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure (MTI, Malta)
» Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute (PGI-NRI, Poland)
» Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG, Portugal)
» Institutul Geologic al României (IGR, Romania)
» Geological Survey of Serbia (GSS, Serbia)
» Geološki Zavod Slovenije (GeoZS, Slovenia)
» Instituto Geologico y Minero de España (IGME, Spain)
» Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning (SGU, Sweden)
» GeoInform of Ukraine (State Geological and Subsurface Survey of Ukraine)
» Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, United Kingdom)
» Geologischer Dienst Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW, Germany)
Projectfacts
Project title | Resources of groundwater, harmonized at Cross-Border and Pan-European scale |
Project acronym | RESOURCE |
Project short title | Resources of groundwater, harmonized at Cross-Border and Pan-European scale. |
Project manager | Gerhard Schubert (Koordination GBA) |
Department | Hydrogeologie und Geothermie |
Period of time | 01.07.18 - 01.07.21 |
Financing | GeoERA initiative by the European Union’s Horizons 2020 programme |