Action plan for development of Inland waterway shipping in Croatia
Action plan for development of the inland waterway shipping in Croatia is a project founded by the European Union, the end beneficiary being the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Croatia. The aim of the project is to determine the measures and recommendations for the establishment of a stimulant and competitive inland waterway transport surrounding.
RGO Communications Ltd. takes part in the project implementation together with a Dutch partner, Panteia BV and an Austrian partner, via donau. Within the initial project phase, the administrative, managing and technical capacities of the existing Croatian shipping companies will be analysed and compared to similar shipping companies in the Netherlands and Austria. In the framework of the project, the fleet of the currently active Croatian shipping companies, as well as current and future port capacities will be analysed. Current human resources and educational capacities in the IWT sector will also be analysed in order to define measures for attracting new workforce. Guidelines for the modernization of the fleet and the Croatian shipping companies will be defined within the project in order to meet the regulations for the inland waterway vessels according to EU Directive 2006/87/EC. The final project task is the preparation of the Action Plan for development of inland waterway shipping in Croatia.
Project start is foreseen for January 2014 and the foreseen duration is 10 months.
FRED - Fire Free MED
The Fire Free MED – FRED is a project developed and submitted with the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Rijeka and other eight partners from the Mediterranean, supported by 10 associated partners.
The FRED project overall objective is to implement advanced ICT/UAS (drone) tools for climate change adaptation, disaster risk prevention and mitigation in the wildfire segment at 6 public authorities in 6 MED countries (HR, SI, IT, BA, ME, EL, PT). By doing so, the project technical solutions will prevent and mitigate wildfires, strengthen resilience of the EU wildfire hotspot - MED and result in reducing risks to human lives, ecosystem degradation, habitat/biodiversity loss.
RGO is happy to work with the scientific partners and public authorities on the development of tools that are to support relevant wildfire/search and rescue authorities in prevention and mitigation; and subsequently have these tools tested in six separate pilot actions in: Kras karst area in Slovenia, Rocca di Cerere UNESCO Geopark in Italy, Una National park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ulcinj municipality in Montenegro, Mali Lošinj Island in Croatia and Baixo Alentejo region in Portugal.
With total budget of 2.380.000,00 EUR, project activities are to be implemented by the end of September 2026. The subsidy was awarded within the scope of the Interreg Europe MED programme.