Welcome to BALWOIS 2010

Abstracts to be notified before 15/01/2010 :

Free Access to all BALWOIS Abstracts and Proceedings : click here...
Full 2010 abstracts classified by tittle, topic, author or country.
Notified abstracts ordered by topic (15/01/10) : click here...

The Fourth International Scientific Conference BALWOIS 2010 will be held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia from 25 to 29 May 2010, Hotel Bellevue www.metropol-ohrid.com .

BALWOIS 2010 on the WBC-INCO NET web site : click here...
The purpose of the conference is to provide a solutions-based forum and to exchange information regarding research activities and plans for studying the relationship between climate and environment for improving the quantity and quality of water, and engineering, and current policies from state and federal agencies. Attendees will include scientists and engineers, managers, legislators, and policy makers responsible for issues dealing with water. It is the intent of this conference to bring forward the concerns and impending problems (and offer solutions) that are developing with regards to the availability and quality of water, and the consequences to aquatic ecosystems and human environment, not only at the Balkan scale, but wider.

BALWOIS 2010 is a platform for creating partnerships in solving water scarcity problems, floods, droughts, environmental degradation and risk affecting different regions.

The conference is designed to facilitate sharing of experiences in water issue and management through presentation of scientific and technical papers and posters on planning research and development activities.

BALWOIS 2010 is organized under the patronage of the Prime Minister of Macedonia Mr. Nikola Gruevski, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of Republic of Macedonia and of the French Ambassador in Skopje.

BALWOIS 2010 is organized by the Balkan Institute for Water and Environment - IB2E www.ib2e.org - the Macedonian Association of Meteorology METEO MAK, Faculty of Civil Engineering (Sts. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje), University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Bitola, Hydrometeorological Service of Macedonia and Hydrobiological Institute of Ohrid.

BALWOIS Project is supported by Ministry of Ecology of France, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and various private companies.

A specific session will be dedicated to a presentation Drought Management Centre for Southeastern Europe (DMCSEE) focusing on drought monitoring and related risks mitigation.

DMCSEE : In past decades the drought-related damages have had large impact on the economy and welfare. The vulnerability to drought impacts in South East Europe (SEE) is higher in comparison to neighboring regions. Trans-national integrated approach is therefore necessary for successful tracking of drought, comparing its impacts using common methodology and assessing vulnerability of various sectors on drought occurrence. The main aim of this project and DMCSEE is to improve drought preparedness (risk assessment and early warning system) and to reduce drought impacts. DMCSEE is supported by WMO and UNCCD.


Poster BALWOIS 2010 FR : grande taille	BALWOIS 2010 Poster EN : big size

First announcement / Invitation EN

Other pictures galleries in the left main menu or here.

Some videos on Macedonia...

AllConferences.Com

Notified abstracts ordered by topic (15/01/2010) : click here...

Instructions for writing full papers : Instructions Model

Boats of Ohrid

Language of the Conference is only English.

The deadlines for abstracts and full papers submitting to the Scientific Committee are as follows

receipt of abstracts : 15/11/09 (postponed until 15/12/2009)
notification to the authors : 15/12/09 (postponed until 15/01/2010)
receipt of full papers : 28/02/10
notification to the authors : 31/03/10

Instructions for writing full papers : Instructions Model

General guidelines for writing scientific papers are available on : http://writing.colostate.edu/

Please note that the article should have the following structure: Introduction, Methodology applied, Case study description (if there is), Results obtained, Conclusions, References.

TO RECEIVE BALWOIS 2010 INFORMATION click on this link.

BALWOIS Project

The general concern of BALWOIS Project - Balkan Water Observation and Information System for Balkan countries - is to create in Balkan a community of the main stakeholders in the field of water protection and water management ranging from scientists, private sector, experts, NGO's, to decision makers and large public.

Three main actions are carried out in BALWOIS project:

(i) the creation of a network of scientists and stakeholders working in water related fields,
(ii) the implementation of a Water observation and information system, and
(iii) the organization of working groups, workshops, scientific visits, training courses and significant scientific events.

BALWOIS network is presently composed of around 800 researchers and experts, the information system available trought this web site give access to more 850 papers (BALWOIS conferences) and other various reports.

BALWOIS Project organises every 2 years an international scientific conference in Ohrid (Republic of Macedonia). Until now, 3 conferences have been organized : in 2004, 2006 and 250 researchers and experts attended the last one on 27-31 May 2008.

The fourth edition "BALWOIS 2010" will be held in Ohrid, on 25-29 May 2010.

Free Access to all 850 BALWOIS 2004, 2006, 2008 Proceedings : click here...