Monday, 10 Aug. 2026
Registration – Main Entrance
Opening ceremony – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
Plenary Lectures – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Cristina Sandu, Vice President of IAD
- Charles Vörösmarty Open lecture live stream
Coffee break – Ground Floor, Student’s Club
Shared plenary and discussion – Anthropogenically induced changes | Topic 1 – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Vladimír Kováč
- István Zsuffa
Lunch break – Mezzanine, Assembly Hall
Plenary Lecture – Monitoring of aquatic species and habitats | Topic 2 – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- András Abonyi
Parallel sessions
(15 min presentations + 5 min questions)
Anthropogenically induced changes (hydromorphology, physical, chemical and biological components)
Topic 1 – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Ronald Pöppl
- Vu Duc Thinh Nguyen
- Péter Borza
Topic 2 – Ground Floor, Section Room, No. 4
- Katrin Teubner
- Cvijanović, Dušanka
- Robert-Casian Cristea
Coffee break – Ground Floor, Student’s Club
Parallel sessions
(15 min presentations + 5 min questions)
Monitoring of aquatic species and habitats
Topic 1 continued – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Olena Hupalo
- Werner Lazowski
- Viktor Vyshnevskyi
Topic 2 continued – Ground Floor, Section Room, No. 4
- Teodora Trichkova
- Sergey Afanasyev
- Ádám Egri
Poster Session 1 – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
IAD Board Meeting – Ground Floor, Section Room, No. 1
Dinner – Mezzanine, Assembly Hall
Tuesday, 11 Aug. 2026
Joint Plenary Lectures | Topic 3 – Protected areas and biodiversity conservation | Topic 4 – Climate change impacts Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Tibor Erős
- Tamás Cselószki
Parallel sessions
(15 min presentations + 5 min questions)
Protected areas and biodiversity conservation
Topic 2 continued – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Thomas Zechmeister
- Gábor Guti
- Katinka Márton Attiláné Virág
Topic 3 continued – Ground Floor, Section Room, No. 4
- Kai Feng
- Volodymyr Yuryshynets
- József Bürgés
Coffee break – Ground Floor, Student’s Club
Parallel sessions
(15 min presentations + 5 min questions)
Climate change impacts
Topic 3 continued – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Boglárka Mészáros
- Ghoufrane Derhy
- Junyao Gu
- Flórián Tóth
Topic 4 continued – Ground Floor, Section Room, No. 4
- Viorica Nagavciuc
- Ronald Pöppl
- Zsolt Kozma
- Viktor Vyshnevskyi
Lunch break – Ground Floor, Student’s Club
Topic 5 – Integrated water management | Plenary Lecture – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Márk Honti
Parallel sessions
(15 min presentations + 5 min questions)
Integrated water management embracing riverine and terrestrial systems
Topic 5 – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
- Thomas Hein
- Gábor Ónodi
- Dávid Béla Vizi
- Máté Krisztián Kardos
- Martin Pusch
Mixed Topic – Ground Floor, Section Room, No. 4
- Svilen Cheshmedzhiev
- Enikő Tamás
- Vera Istvánovics
- István Hatvani
Coffee break – Ground Floor, Student’s Club
Poster Session 2 – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
IAD General Assembly – Ground Floor, Assembly Hall
Conference Dinner – IAD 70th Anniversary – Off-site Venue
Wednesday, 12 Aug. 2026
Excursion
Departure from Beszédes József Dormitory
More details in the excursion programme
Thursday, 13 Aug. 2026
Setting the scene
Challenges of sustainable sediment management and its importance for ecosystem restoration in the DRB.
Coffee break – Ground Floor, Student’s Club
Climate change adaptation measures – the example of Living Labs. Interlayer project
Lunch break – Mezzanine, Assembly Hall
The Source to Sea approach for restoring migratory fish communities in the DRB – BS region
Coffee break – Ground Floor, Student’s Club
Advancing sustainable development in the Danube – BS Region
Announcing the results of the IAD photo contest
Conference closure