LIFE RiverFlow: Sustaining Latvia's Aquatic Ecosystems - Solutions for Hydrological and Morphological Restoration

Start Date
2025End Date
2030Description
The overall aim of the LIFE River Flow is to improve Latvia's river connectivity and ecosystem functions by reducing impacts and implementing innovative solutions for hydrological, morphological and ecosystem restoration....ReHydro: Demonstration of Sustainable Hydropower Refurbishment

Start Date
2024End Date
2028Description
The main objective of ReHydro is to demonstrate how European hydropower can be refurbished and modernized to be fit for a leading role in the future power system respecting sustainability...ALPHEUS: Augmenting grid stability through Low-head Pumped Hydro Energy Utilization & Storage

Start Date
2020End Date
2024Description
With a growing share of intermittent renewable energy sources grid stability can be maintained, and flexibility enhanced, by applying pumped hydropower energy storage. ALPHEUS will improve reversible pump/turbine (RPT) technology...TRISTAN: New computational Tools for RelIability-based dam SafeTy AssessmeNt
Start Date
2019End Date
2021Description
TRISTAN develops new computational tools for reliability-based dam safety assessment, combining advanced numerical modelling, finite element methods (FEM), uncertainty analysis, and machine learning approaches. The objective is to improve the...AMBER: Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers

Start Date
2016End Date
2020Description
AMBER joined together 20 European partners including academics, conservation foundations (WWF, World Fish Migration Foundation), energy providers (EDF, Sydkraft Hydropower) and policy advisors (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)). The...FlexSTOR: Solutions for flexible operation of storage hydropower plants in changing environment and market conditions
Start Date
2016End Date
2019Description
The CTI (No. 17902.3 PFEN-IW-FLEXSTOR) research project FlexSTOR, standing for “Solutions for flexible operation of storage hydropower plants in changing environment and market conditions”, brought together the SCCER-SoE research partners...NUMA: Development of an environment for integrating physics-based and data-based models for dam monitoring
Start Date
2016End Date
2018Description
The NUMA project developed an integrated computational platform for dam safety management by combining physics-based numerical models with data-driven models derived from dam monitoring and auscultation data. Traditionally, these two...ACOMBO: Development of a computational code for complex thermo-mechanical analysis of arch dams
Start Date
2015End Date
2018Description
The ACOMBO project developed advanced computational tools for the thermo-mechanical analysis of concrete arch dams, enabling simulation of dam behaviour throughout their entire life cycle, from construction to operation and...AlDA: Definition of warning thresholds for dam safety using artificial intelligence and a non-euclidean affinity assessment metric
Start Date
2014End Date
2016Description
The AlDA project aimed to improve dam safety through the application of artificial intelligence techniques and the development of a non-Euclidean affinity metric to identify similarities between dams. Recognising the...iCOMPLEX: Development of the iCOMPLEX software for the control and assessment of the safety of critical infrastructures
Start Date
2012End Date
2015Description
Globally, there exists a vast array of critical and/or potentially high-risk infrastructure. Depending on their type, many of these critical infrastructures are equipped with a significant number of monitoring instruments...
