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Robert Rient
Robert Rient initiated the recognition of the Odra River as a legal person and established the Odra Tribe. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Odra Person Foundation, a Member of the International Observatory for the Rights of Nature, Save the Rivers Coalition, and Literary Union Association. He also acts as…
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Ana Džakić
Ana Džakić is born in 1985 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Secondary School of Architecture and is currently employed full-time in the energy sector. A mother of two, she has been a long-time environmental activist and is the legal representative of the NGO White Heron 1165 – Bela Čaplja 1165 from Belgrade. She is…
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Carmen Haro Barba
Carmen Haro Barba holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Social Sciences and is a professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, where she was awarded the Special Doctoral Prize. She is an expert with the United Nations “Harmony with Nature” Program, where she helps promote international frameworks that incorporate the Rights of Nature. In Spain, she…
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Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025
Full ProgrammeWhen two or more rivers meet in a landscape, they flow together and continue as one body of water: they ‘confluence’. From 21 to 24 September 2025, representatives of more than 35 European seas, lakes, rivers, wetlands, lagoons, and glaciers will confluence in the Netherlands. The Confluence 2025 is a growing interdisciplinary community of water…
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Torsten Schäfer
Torsten Schäfer is a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, an environmental journalist, and a wilderness pedagogist. His work focuses on climate journalism, storytelling, and nature writing. Torsten was editor at GEO magazine and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He took training in survival education (one year) and river relations (Schumacher College). He…
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Giga Tsikarishvili
Giga Tsikarishvili is a multidisciplinary artist and architect. Merging material intervention with posthumanist theory, he researches the affective traces and ecological wounds left on landscapes by extractive forces. Through teaching and site-specific speculative design, he challenges dominant urban and architectural practices. He seeks to heal nature-culture entanglements and foster deep, physical attunement with traumatised environments.
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Ingrid de Vries
Ingrid de Vries (1972) worked for a chemical company at the decision support and control department, after graduating at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). In between calculating cost prices, she launched a waste management project. She often found herself at the wastewater treatment plant, talking with the operator about how the bacteria were “eating” the chemical…
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Erena Rhose
Erena Rhöse is a Māori woman native of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and living in Sweden. Erena is guardian of the tribal knowledge, a doctor of traditional Maori medicine, professor of Ecosophy at the University of Karlstad, Sweden.
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Anne Marie Flood
Anne Marie Flood is a market economist, experienced project manager for large EU projects, EU funds specialist and entrepreneur deeply involved in activities to save the Baltic Sea.
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Drina
The Drina river basin covers an area of 19,680 km² and extends over the territory of the three largest coastal countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. Pristine ecosystems, wetlands and alluvial forests are among the most important habitats in the Drina basin. They represent an important factor for habitat diversity and provide conditions and shelter for many species, and...
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Thomas De Ming
Thomas De Ming is a RangeMaker, and his mission is to contribute to the transition to a sustainable society by helping us all get more range: to be able to think beyond, go further and last longer.
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Greet Brauwers & Raf Custers
Greet Brauwers is a researcher, filmmaker, and artist based in Brussels. After her studies, she worked in the media, combining her journalistic work with a socio-artistic practice, exploring the possibilities of engaged visual and narrative practices, setting up audiovisual projects, and documentary filmmaking. Since 2016, she has connected with artistic practice. With Raf Custers, they…
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Pella Thiel
Pella Thiel is an ecologist, small-scale farmer, author and educator. She lives in the archipelago of Stockholm and works with relational, systemic leadership for a society in harmony with nature at all levels.
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Agata Julia Foksa-Biegaj
Agata Julia Foksa-Biegaj is a lawyer specializing in international law and human rights, a PhD researcher, and a member of the Osoba Odra Foundation. Her work explores ecological justice, systemic transformation, and the rights of nature, bridging legal, philosophical, and spiritual perspectives.
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Watch the video of the confluence 2024 in Venice!
From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s lakes, seas, rivers and glaciers confluenced for the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 at Ocean Space, Venice. Over 50 academics, lawyers, artists, ecologists and policy makers gathered…
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Fang-Jui Chang
Fang is a Responsible Innovation Lead and Strategic Designer at Dark Matter Labs, and co-leads the Radicle Civics portfolio, primarily focused on societal, environmental, and economic structural transitions and new civics. Dark Matter Labs is a not-for-profit working for a future of mutual thriving by focusing on the ‘dark matter’ (monetary, economic, governance, regulatory and policy systems)…
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Anna Chmiel
Anna Chmiel is a painter, multimedia artist, and key member of the Rivers Sisters collective from 2019. She seamlessly combines art with activism for nature, especially rivers.
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Anna Daneri
Anna Daneri is an independent curator. She curated the exhibition "Nothing is lost. Art and Matter in Transformation" (2022–2022) with Lorenzo Giusti at GAMeC - Bergamo. She was one of the founders of Peep-Hole, Milan.
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Sabina Candusso
Sabina Candusso, 28, is currently living in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where her profession as a cultural and visual anthropologist merges with intense activity in communications and environmental justice. Here she works in support of Indigenous communities’ advocacy against aggressive extractive industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her commitment to water justice is deeply rooted in her…
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Ticino River
The Ticino River rises in the Alps of southern Switzerland and flows through northern Italy. It is the main tributary of the Po River and the second Italian river in terms of water flow. The river measures a total of 248 km in length and is considered one of the healthiest rivers in Italy. Here,…
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Dobrosława Grzybkowska-Lewicka
Dobrosława Grzybkowska-Lewicka is a member of the Odra Tribe and Osoba Odra (the Odra Person) Foundation. She is a peaceful ecological activist involved in the process of recognising the rights of the Oder river / Odra in Poland, researching the unity of humanity as/with nature through experience, immersion, and becoming. She holds a PhD in…
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Big succes for Vistula River & Polish Rivers Sisters: no new dam!
The River Sisters are one of the first members of our Confluence of European Water Bodies. Together with many NGO’s, united in the Save The Rivers Coalition, they have been campaigning for over zeven years to protect Vistula, the queen of Polish rivers. Its middle section is an example of a perfectly preserved, unique landscape…
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Online press confluence 26 September 2024
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will hold an online press confluence 26 September 2024 from 10:00 – 11:15. This online session will give insight in the foundation, aims, visions and methods of the Confluence of European Water Bodies and offers press and researchers the opportunity to ask questions. Several European water bodies will be…
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North Sea
The North Sea, bordered by England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, is geologically a young body of water. It has been around for about 8,000 years. Despite the fact that the North Sea covers 60% of Dutch territory (58,500 km2), which makes it the largest public space in the Netherlands, there is very little...
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Rhine
The Rhine River, one of Europe’s longest and most significant waterways, spans over 1,230 kilometers from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea. Flowing through six countries—Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, and the Netherlands—it has shaped European history, culture, and economies for centuries. Its delta, shared with the Meuse and Scheldt rivers in the Netherlands,…
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Vinny Jones
Vinny's practice of sensory scenography is based on the recognition that it is through the whole sensing body that we perceive, experience, and are connected in the world.
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Can the Piave still Murmur?
An assembly in Ocean Space for an in-depth discussion and a series of artistic elements centered on the case of the Grave di Ciano, an important area of the Piave river, protected by the Natura 2000 project but threatened by a potentially ecologically damaging climate adaptation project.
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Josh Levene
Josh Levene has a background in anthropology and ecological design, with over 25 years of experience working with river-based communities in Africa, South Asia, and the UK.
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Marie-Dominique Loÿe
Marie-Dominique Loÿe is a former teacher-researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her scientific work was dedicated to geology, surface water, and atmospheric deposition chemistry in Corsica and around the Mediterranean Sea. She has been teaching on geology and “environment and society”. Now she is involved in environmental struggles in Corsica, especially in the defense…