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Eco-AlpsWater Innovative Ecological Assessment and Water Management Strategy for the Protection of Ecosystem Services in Alpine Lakes and Rivers Priority 3: Liveable Alpine Space. SO3.2 - Enhance the protection, the conservation and the ecological connectivity of Alpine Space 1

Th The e Aim Aim The aim is to improve the traditional monitoring approaches (Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC-EU WFD and, in Switzerland, the Water Protection Ordinance- WPO) by using advanced DNA sequencing techniques such as metabarcoding. The new approach will make use of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to analyze environmental DNA in waterbodies (which allow rapid species identification at low costs, from fish to bacteria), and smart technologies (automation in data processing, data storage, information retrieval). The project runs from April 2018 to April 2021. 2

Workflow Management of Ecological water resources assessment eDNA Metabarcoding approach fish eDNA solation High-Throughput Sequencing (cyano)bacteria PCR Bioinformatics phytoplankton microbial eukariotes phytobenthos Taxonomic Environmental sample inventories Traditional approach 3

Par artners an and pilo ilot si sites: lak lakes an and riv rivers 4

12 12 par artners an and 37 37 ob observers fr from 6 6 countries 7 national/regional public authorities: 5 research institutions: ARPAV, Regional Agency for Lead partner FEM, Fondazione Edmund Environmental Protection and Mach (IT) Prevention of Veneto (IT) ARSO, Slovenian LFUI, Leopold Franzens Environment Agency (SI) University Innsbruck (AT) LfL, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, (DE) NIB, National Institute of Biology (Sl) AGES, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AT) INRA, National Institute ISPRA, Italian National for Agricultural Institute for Environmental Research (FR) Protection and Research (IT) SUPSI, University of LfU, Bavarian Applied Sciences and Environment Arts (CH) Agency (DE) AFB, The French Agency for Biodiversity (FR) 5

Project str tructure WP1: Innovative monitoring approaches Develop and test metabarcoding protocols Main ain ou outputs WP2: Harmonization of approaches for water quality assessment Identify gaps in the present monitoring  Metabarcoding Innovative methods approaches  Policy on data storage and handling WP3: Local pilot implementation Implement novel metabarcoding techniques in  Harmonization of EU-WFD and CH-WPO water bodies approach WP4: Next generation biomonitoring and Policy  Implementation of traditional & NGS Improve management of water resources and monitoring ecosystem services using the new, innovative approaches  Improved transnational cooperation structures  Strategic elements and policy recommendation 6

more in info at: www.a .alpine-space.e .eu/eco-alpswater Lead partner nico.salmaso@fmach.it Communication manager tina.elersek@nib.si 7