The DANUBIUS-RI infrastructure consists of the Hub, Data Centre, Nodes, Supersites, e-Learning Office, and Technology Transfer Office, all distributed across Europe. Operating under the DANUBIUS-ERIC legal entity, it is dedicated to fulfilling its defined missions and priorities.

Mission Area 1: Achieving healthy inland, transitional and coastal waters.

• Priority (1) Water Quantity: Understand and quantify water stores and flows across River-Sea continua to enable sustainable water resource management and mitigate against extreme events.
• Priority (2) Sediment Balance: Understand and quantify sediment dynamics in a source to sink system, and manage sediments sustainably across River-Sea continuum.
• Priority (3) Nutrients and Pollutants: Understand and quantify singular and combined effects of nutrients and pollutants in water and sediments to establish critical thresholds as a means to support the achievement of good status at the scale of the River-Sea System. 7 DANUBIUS-RI
• Priority (4) Biodiversity: Understand the relationship between biodiversity and connectivity across River-Sea Systems and its response to multiple stressors.
• Priority (5) Ecosystem Services: Understand and quantify how changing River-Sea Systems will affect future provision of ecosystem services and how these can be sustained.

Mission Area 2: Adapting to Climate Change: Enhancing Resilience of River-Sea Systems.

• Priority (6) Climate Change: Support collection of data and the development of innovative methods and tools to assess the effects of climate change and to improve adaptation measures within and across River-Sea Systems.
• Priority (7) Extreme Events: Understand and quantify the occurrence and severity of extreme events such as floods and droughts, impacting River-Sea Systems and find cost effective nature-based solutions to support disaster mitigation and management.

DANUBIUS-RI will cooperate closely with other research infrastructures, including ICOS-ERIC, EMSOERIC, EURO-ARGO ERIC, LifeWatch ERIC and eLTER; with research infrastructure networks such as HYDRALAB and JERICO; with River Basin and Regional Seas Commissions; with data programmes and initiatives such as the European Copernicus programme, EUMETSAT and SeaDataNet; and with research programmes and initiatives such as JPI Water and JPI Oceans.

By 2030, DANUBIUS-RI will be a fully funded and operational environmental research infrastructure, attracting leading scientists from around the globe.