The VALERIE project partners have been meeting in Toulouse (23rd-27th January) to review progress and plan for the last year of the project

Around 200 people attended a major conference on Natural Flood Management (NFM) at the University of Gloucestershire on 25th January. The conference -"Natural Flood Management: Enabling Partnerships and Action" - was organised by the CCRI and Stroud District Council and was aimed at building partnerships between local communities, flood groups, local authorities and land managers to enable them to deliver effective natural flood management at the local scale.

Damian Maye and Mauro Vigani are currently in Portugal, presenting an update on progress to date on Work Package 2 under the Horizon 2020 SUFISA project.

The major flood conference, ‘Natural Flood Management: Enabling Partnerships and Action’, which is taking place on Wednesday 25th January at the University of Gloucestershire Oxstalls Campus, is now fully subscribed. The conference is aimed at building partnerships between local communities, flood groups, local authorities and land managers to deliver effective natural flood management at the local scale.

CCRI's Damian Maye is co-convening a session about Brexit with Gareth Enticott from Cardiff University at the RGS-IBG conference taking place in London from 29th August and 1st September 2017. The session is entitlted 'The Impact of Brexit to Agriculture, Food and Rural Society' and they have just announced a call for papers.

The EU VALERIE project has just released its 2016/17 Winter Newsletter, which gives details of the project progress over the past 12 months, including the ‘virtual adviser’ tool, which the CCRI has been co-ordinating.

Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are attending the Agridemo-F2F kick off meeting in Ghent this week. Agridemo-F2F is a new project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme.