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Call for contributions to a special issue / anthology
Water Bodies of Europe – flows, obstacles, convergences and ways forwards We invite all water bodies to contribute to a special issue / anthology about Rights of Nature and water representation in Europe. All contributions in the form of research articles, essays, artworks, opinion pieces, book reviews from the perspectives of law, academia, artistic, activism are welcome!…
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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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Watch the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2023 short film
The first Confluence of European Water Bodies took place in September 2023 on the shores of the Mar Menor, the first ecosystem with legal personhood in Europe. We weaved connectivity and collectivity with waters from Poland to Italy, from Sweden to France, from Serbia to Montenegro, to Germany and the UK. We mourned over lost landscapes…
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Eduardo Salazar Ortuño
Eduardo Salazar Ortuño is a public interest Environmental Lawyer and Administrative Law Adjunct Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain).
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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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Thomas Fabre
Thomas Fabre is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Gustave-Eiffel University, under the supervision of Corine Pelluchon. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a master’s degree in environmental governance from AgroParisTech. Before that, he spent two years working for Nitidae, an NGO that promotes agroecological transition and combats deforestation in…
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Ouse
Love our Ouse is a community based initiative linking people to celebrate, learn and take action for Sussex River Ouse from source to sea. We believe the Ouse has the right to support a rich biodiversity and a thriving riverside community. There’s so much to learn about the Ouse; its rich history, topography, ecology and water quality to name...
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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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Pek
The Pek (Serbian Cyrillic: Пек) is a relatively short river in eastern Serbia. It is a 129 km long right tributary of the Danube, [1] flowing through the regions of Homolje, Zvižd and Braničevo. The river got a moniker Golden Pek for being one of the most gold-bearing rivers in Europe, with some of its tributaries bearing even more...
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Dr Marian Bruce
After spending many years in academic research, Marian founded Highland Boundary, Scotland’s first botanical spirits distillery in 2016, where she is director and master distiller. Award- winning Highland Boundary spirits are produced on her small, re-wilded family farm at Kirklandbank in Alyth, Perthshire where she also manages livestock, holiday rental and sculpture businesses. She was also Enterprise Manager…
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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 short film of Confluence #3!
The third annual Confluence of European Water Bodies took our journey to Amsterdam and Bergen aan Zee. Taking place from 21 – 24 September 2025 and hosted by the Embassy of the North Sea, the 2025 Confluence brought together water bodies from all across Europe and beyond to gather, think, create, and strategize in workshops,…
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Leon Lapa Pereira
Leon Lapa Pereira joined the Embassy of the North Sea in 2023 as producer of the project Designing Self representation of water bodies in Europe. He is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans.
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Danube
The Danube is the world’s most international river. From the Black Forest to the Black Sea, she flows through ten nations; her catchment area spans twenty countries total, connecting regions, cultures and habitats like few other waterways. More than 80 million people live along her banks and tributaries. Four capital cities lie directly on her…
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Gert-Jan Stam
Gert-Jan Stam has a background in visual arts and theatre and is currently mostly interested in ‘multispecies cocreation’. He is co-founder of the transdisciplinary arts collective TAAT. Their practice is rooted in the interplay between architecture and theatre, which has evolved to creating ecosystems of encounter, shifting between artistic research, social practice and regenerative learning.…
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New Chapter Diplomatic Suitcase in Lisbon
From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass roots activists, artists & academics representing Europes glaciers, seas, lakes, lagunes and rivers.…
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Pedro Luengo Michel
Pedro Luengo Michel is a biologist from the University of Murcia. His professional career began with environmental consultancy and in charge of a cheese laboratory.
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Monthly online water bodies meeting
Every third Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm, our water bodies network comes together to exchange plans and ideas. Find bellow the schedule. Should you be interested to join one of these sessions to meet the network, please send an email to: info@ambassadevandenoordzee.nl to receive the agenda + Zoomlink. Thursday 20 March 7:30pm Thursday…
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Simon Wynen
Simon Wynen is a wilderness educator and co-founder of the Loisachbündnis. He was born in 1999 and lives not far from the Loisach and the Murnauer Moos. From a young age, he has spent a great deal of time in nature, learning to live simply. As a wilderness educator and nature mentor, he strives to…
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Volker von Bremen
Volker von Bremen, anthropologist (PhD) and co-founder of the Loisachbündnis. Born on the Lahn River and raised close to the Hahnenbach (nicknamed the ‘Köttelbecke’ or ‘Dung Ditch’) in the Ruhr region. Studied anthropology, philosophy and economics at the Lahn and at the water bodies in Berlin. Conducted research and practical cooperation with indigenous peoples, primarily…
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Aleksandra Velimanović
Aleksandra Velimanović, master in the field of integrated management of natural resources, has been in the civil sector for 25 years, and since 2006 one of the founders and members of the citizens’ association “NIMBUS” from Loznica.
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Loisach
The Loisach river originates in the Zugspitze region of Tyrol and flows through alpine landscapes from Austria to Bavaria, where it joins the Isar near Wolfratshausen. The river’s course was characterised by gravel banks, floodplains, and a rich variety of flora and fauna. However, straightening, canalisation, soil sealing, groundwater extraction and the consequences of the…
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Tavignanu
On July 29, 2021, the Declaration of the Rights of the Tavignanu River was proclaimed. It is the first declaration of its kind regarding the rights of an ecosystem in France. This initiative was launched by the collectives “Tavignanu Vivu”, “Umani”, and “Terre de Liens-Corsica” with the support of “Notre Affaire à Tous”. The Declaration…
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Mtkvari
A water body flowing from the Caucasus before mingling with the Caspian Sea—known in human tongues as Mtkvari, Kura, Cyrus—was the living pulse of Georgia, circulating in the bodies of its dwellers as they swam, drank, and marked their deepest rituals at its edge. Known for its capricious nature: changing rapids, fluctuating shallows, and periodic…
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Alex Putzer
Alex researches the theory, analysis, and implementation of rights of nature in cities. As a UN Harmony with Nature Expert and member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, he co-developed the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor, the world’s leading database tracking rights of nature. He holds a PhD from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and has been a…
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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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Markus Schärli
Markus Schärli is the founder and first president of the association Rechtsperson Reuss who wants to empower the river Reuss by giving him constitutional rights and an own personality.
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Tagliamento
Tagliamento is the name of a river in the far Northeast of Italy, in the region closest to Slovenia and Austria. Its name means “river with a lot of linden trees along its banks.” The river has its source in the Dolomite mountains and flows to the Adriatic Sea, covering a distance of 178km. Tagliamento…
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Dogger Bank
The Dogger Bank is a 25,000 km2 offshore submerged sandbank in the middle of the North Sea, designated as an EU Natura 2000 marine protected area. Despite its severely degraded state, the Dogger Bank is also called a breeding ground of the North Sea. It forms the heart of a network of marine protected areas needed and required to...
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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.