FlashFloodBreaker Materials
In this section you find more information material about the FlashFloodBreaker project, such as an explainer video by JustJulie, a short presentation to see "FlashFloodBreaker in a nutshell" in English and German.
Academic posters achieved on the base of the project activities are also available for download.
Furthermore you find publications from our partners and associates as well as an overview about our activities on the ground.
Illustration: 
Watch the movie in english with english subtititles here:
Um den Film auf deutsch mit deutschen Untertiteln zu schauen, klicken Sie hier:
FlashFloodBreaker auf Deutsch
Pour voir le film en français, cliquez ici.
Om de film in het Nederlands met Nederlandse ondertitels te bekijken, klik hier.
download english version here: 
download german version here:Transnational Exercise on mobile barriers, Utrecht, NL
For further news about the project and upcoming events visit our Blog section
Site Visit in Moelingen/Voeren, Flanders
In recent years the village of Moelingen (Voeren) has been hit 3 times very hard by flash floods. Each flood caused severe damage and each time it became worse, making that during the 2024 flood the village was almost completely inundated.
Our partner VMM invited the FlashFloodBreaker partnership to testify the current efforts, including the encouragement of inhabitants to protect themselves and their houses with flood barriers, both encouraging financially and by providing support in the execution of the works.
The FlashFloodBreaker partnership regularly organizes and participates in transnational training exercices. Together with our partners in the flood affected communities we do field visits in order do learn about regional and national strategies against extreme flooding events. For more information about exercises, field trips and more visit our section ACTIVITIES.
See here for dowload posters that have been presented to disseminate FlashFloodBreaker results:
Status March 2026
1. Poster
Adikari, Hasitha; O’Leary, Christian; Harrington, Joe; Lynch, Conor (2025): Computer Vision in Flash Flood Forecasting: A Narrative Review of Applications, Integration Pathways, and Future Directions. Poster. Cork. GO TO: Academic posters, updated on 11.2025.
Adikari, Hasitha; O’Leary, Christian; Harrington, Joe; Lynch, Conor (2025): Toward Occlusion-Robust River Segmentation for Flash Flood Forecasting: A Comparative Study of CNN-Based Architectures on UAV RGB Imagery. Poster. Cork. GO TO: Academic posters, updated on 11.2025.
Adikari, Hasitha; O'Leary, Christian; Harrington, Joe; Lynch, Conor (2025): An Integrated Framework for Near-Real-Time Flash Flood Forecasting through Automated Ground Information Extraction via Computer Vision and a Physics-Informed Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network. Poster. Irish National Hydrology Conference. Athlone, Ireland, 11/18/2025. GO TO: Academic posters
Beke, Pierick (2025): Runoff modeling using the Rain-On-Grid method in TELEMAC 2D. Poster. Aachen, April 2025. GO TO: Academic posters
Burchard, Erik von (2025): Hydrodynamic simulations of pluvial and fluvial flooding in the Emscher catchment area. Poster. Aachen, April 2025. Available online at https://flashfloodbreaker.nweurope.eu/information-material GO TO: Academic posters
Huber, Sabrina (2025): Integration of hydraulic processes in 2-dimensional simulations of heavy rainfall scenarios. Poster. Aachen, April 2025. GO TO: Academic posters
Hupel, Giorgio (2025): Optimization of 2D simulations in urban areas with Telemac-2D. Poster. Aachen, April 2025. Available online at https://flashfloodbreaker.nweurope.eu/information-material GO TO: Academic posters
Mahmood, Faisal (2025): Assessing the Impact of High-Resolution Hydrological Modelling on Streamflow and Flash-Flood Events in Crookstown Catchment. Poster. Cork. GO TO: Academic posters
Mahmood, Faisal; Bidroha, Basu; Harrington, Joe (2025): Flash Flood Dynamics in Ireland: A Study of Two Irish Catchments using Remote Sensing and Hydrological. Poster. Irish National Hydrology Conference. Athlone, Ireland, 11/18/2025.
Nasso, Adil (2025): Immersive AR/VR Training for Flash Floods: Fusing Lived Experience with Real-Time Geospatial Data. Poster. Luxembourg, November 2025. GO TO: Academic posters
Schwab, Anton (2025): Differentiation and characterization of flash flood endangered areas. Poster. Aachen, April 2025.GO TO: Academic posters
Université de Liège (27 April-2025): Structural damage grade classifier for residential buildings based on the July 2021. Poster. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025. Vienna, Autria & online, 27 April-5/2/2025. Available online at https://www.egu25.eu/.
Weser, Timm (2025): Transmission of flash flood simulation results into decision-relevant information. Poster. Aachen, April 2025. GO TO: Academic posters
2. Articles
De Becker, Alexander; Benjamin Dewals, Pierre Archambeau, Michel Pirroton, Sébastien Erpicum: New insights into backwater rise induced by debris blockage at bridges. In IAHR (Ed.): Book of Extended Abstracts of the 41st IAHR World Congress (Singapore, 2025). With assistance of Adrian Wing-Keung Law, Jenn Wei Er. Available online at https://2025.iahr.org/.
Leise, Volker (2024): Sturzfluten: Kooperation „FlashFloodBreaker“ will transnationale Reaktion verbessern. In EUWID Wasser und Abwasser (33). Available online at https://www.euwid-wasser.de/news/wirtschaft/sturzfluten-kooperation-flashfloodbreaker-will-transnationale-reaktion-verbessern-290724/.
Rodríguez Castro, D.; Cools, M.; Roucour, S.; Archambeau, P.; Molinari, D.; Scorzini, A. R. et al. (2025): Can macro- or meso-scale coping capacity variables improve the classification of building flood losses? In Nat Hazards 121 (7), pp. 8179–8209. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-025-07123-4.
3. Presentations
Mahmood, Faisal; et alli (2025): Advancing Land Cover Classification for Hydrological Modelling and Flood Resilience in Ireland using Sentinel-2 Imagery. National Environ2025 Conference. Dublin, 3/10/2025.
Reinert, Jens (2026): Quantifying System Limits: Flood-Oriented Stress Testing for Adaptive Risk Governance. International Conference on Resilient Systems. Delft, 3/23/2026. Available online at https://www.icrs26.org/home.
4. Media coverage (examples)
Interreg North-West Europe (2025): Video spotlight - German, French and Dutch fire brigades together for a flood responsive exercise. Edited by Interreg North-West Europe (13). Available online at https://mailchi.mp/nweurope/interreg-north-west-europe-newsletter-issue-february-12841041?e=915af0500a.
Nordstadtblogger-Redaktion (2024): Schutz vor Sturzfluten: Startschuss für Projekt „FlashFloodBreaker“ im belgischen Lüttich. In Die Nordstadtblogger, 7/29/2024. Available online at https://www.nordstadtblogger.de/schutz-vor-sturzfluten-startschuss-fuer-projekt-flashfloodbreaker-im-belgischen-luettich/.
Schabasser, Helene; Barco, Francesca (2025): Facing the storms together: Building resilience against weather extremes in Germany. In News & Stories 10 April 2025. Available online at https://interreg.eu/news-stories/facing-the-storms-together-building-resilience-against-weather-extremes-in-germany/.
5. Other
Emschergenossenschaft (2024): Geschäfts- und Nachhaltigkeitsbericht der Emschergenossenschaft. Essen. Available online at https://www.eglv.de/medien/infomaterial-publikationen/.