Welcome to the Hungarian Danube Research Station!

In 1956 the Helsinki conference of the International Society for Theoretical and Applied Limnology (SIL) urged its European members to study one of the moderately polluted large rivers because the study of running waters was well behind the investigation of lakes due to methodological difficulties.On this congress was suggested the establishment of an organisation devoted to the scientific investigation of the River Danube.
In the same year has been instituted the International Working Association for Danube Research (Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Donauforschung) in Wienna. Members of the association were the countries along the Danube as well as Switzerland through the River Inn, which is the biggest influent of the upper Danube. First president was Prof. Reinhard LIEPOLT. The centre of the organisation is ever since in Wienna.
The Hungarian Danube Research Station was established in1957 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest according to the principles of IAD. Head of the Station was Prof. Endre DUDICH, academician. The research station was established in the willage Göd, 20 km north of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. In 1977 the Station was joined to the Research Institute for Botany at Vácrátót.
Within the frame of the IAD the Hungarian Danube Research Station has taken part in research co-operation with the corresponding organisations or institutes of the member countries of IAD since its foundation. The research workers of the Station take regularly part on the Conferences and contribute to the Conference Issues of the IAD.

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