FIThydro is a 4-year H2020 research and innovation action (duration 2016-2020), which aims to support decisions on commissioning and operating HPP by the use of existing and innovative technologies. It concen-trates on environmental impact assessment and mitigation measures to develop cost-effective envi-ronmental mitigation measures and strategies to avoid fish damage and to support the development of self-sustainable fish populations, with the main emphasis on the more sensitive run-of-river HPP. FIThydro brings together 26 partners (13 research, 13 industrial) from 10 countries, involving several of the leading companies in the renewable and hydropower energy sector in Europe. Solutions, methods, tools and devices are tested or applied and evaluated at 17 test cases, each with different HPP set-ups and different challenges, in four test case regions in Europe: Alpine region, Scandina-via, France/Belgium, Iberian Peninsula.

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