This workshop will be an excellent opportunity to bring together the different communities dealing at European level with water scarcity and drought issues in order to find common strategies and share knowledge and experiences.

There will be a session devoted to the transfer of research results to the interested working groups; a session on the standardisation activity of WMO-Reg VI will examine how to support the EU development of a common set of indices on the basis of the ongoing work of the regional task teams; finally, the second day will be dedicated to separate sessions.