Thursday, 11 September 2025 at the University of Liège (Belgium)

Program from 2 September 2025

Posters

Sjors Kurvers (Rijkswaterstaat)

Renovation plan for the Dutch weir system of the Maas river

Plenary talks

Sébastien Erpicum (Université de Liège)

Hydraulic structures and their influence on flood manage-ment in the context of the 2021 flood and beyond

Thomas Wintgens (RWTH Aachen University)

Mitigating emissions from urban run-off to protect the aquatic environment – Results from the StopUP project

Parallel programme A: water quantity and transport

Hydrological extremes and climate change

Benjamin Dewals (Université de Liège)

Jiri Nossent (Flanders Hydraulics and Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Flood maps of the navigable waterways in Flanders

Hajar El Khalfi (Université de Lorraine, Metz)
Improving low-flow forecasting with the PREMHYCE multi-model platform - a case study on the Meuse basin

Adaptation measures

Sébastien Erpicum (Université de Liège)

Deborah Dotta Correa (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education)
Managing low flows in the International Meuse Basin with Nature-based Solutions & other measures

Alexander van Braeckel (INBO)

The decision support tool for the Common Meuse - towards integrating ecosystem elements in low- and high-water management

Aurore Degré (Université de Liège - Gem-bloux Agro-Bio Tech)

Territories of hydrological innovation: from modeling to implementation

River hydraulics and flood impact

Laurène Bouaziz (Deltares)

Olivier Carlier d'Odeigne (Service Public de Wallonie)
A HEC-RAS model of the Meuse from Yvoz-Ramet to downstream of Liège in support of the Administration's operational objectives

David Vertegaal (Sportvisserij Nederland)
Meuse hydropeaking and downstream consequences for fish and nature

International collaboration

Bernhard Becker (Deltares, RWTH Aachen University)

Esmee Mes (Deltares)

Transboundary cooperation in the Meuse - governance structures, monitoring and forecasting during periods of droughts

Laurène Bouaziz (Deltares)

Understanding our current climate, extreme discharges on the Meuse - the Flood Wisdom project

Parallel programme B: getting grip on organic micropollutants in the Meuse Basin

Wastewater treatment plants

Roel Kwanten (Rijkswaterstaat)

Hilde Passier (Deltares)
From source to effect: pollutants entering the Meuse via waste water treatment plants

Tom Gallé (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
Identifying pollutants of relevance and their emitters in the technical catchment of a WWTP

Studies on water quality in the Meuse basin

Merle Gerritsen (Waterschap Limburg)

Stijn van Hulle (UGent)
Combining ozone based advanced oxidation and activated carbon filtration for micropollutant removal from secondary effluent: experimental results, scale-up and (surrogate) monitoring and control

Searching for sources of pollution in the Meuse basin

Marjolein Jacobs-van Eerd (Rijkswaterstaat)