NEWADA duo, an EU funded project (South East Europe Programme), supports the waterway management authorities of the Danube riparian states in achieving a common level of service in waterway management along the Danube.
RGO Communications Ltd. is an IT consultant within the implementation of the NEWADA duo project on behalf of the Croatian partner, Agency for Inland Waterways. One of the key deliverables within the project is pilot implementation of Aids to Navigation (AtoNs) - virtual and remote monitoring systems.
The main objective is to increase safety of navigation by installing electronic devices on the floating marks that transmit information on the status and position of an AtoN via the available AIS infrastructure. With the same purpose, a system will be developed which will enable authorities to place virtual AtoNs on the waterway, displayed on a ship based viewer. Virtual AtoNs will significantly increase navigation safety, as they can be placed in the critical location as soon as the authority has identified a navigation safety problem such as low water level, obstruction in the fairway, physical AtoN off-position etc.
The pilot implementation will be done on the selected stretches of the Danube waterway.
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.