4 June: REDINN Side Event on Water Treatment
4 June 2014
Austria
In the framework of Green Week 2014 on June 4th REDINN – Rete Europea dell’Innovazione will organize a Side Event titled “EU&MPC bi-regional workshop on enhancing cooperation between research and innovation actors of the water treatment sector”.
The Side Event is intended to contribute to raise awareness and achieve a Common Knowledge and Innovation space between the EU and MPC countries; in particular, it aims at tackling the issues with waste and waste water in societies and inefficiencies at local and regional level and how they can work with the innovation actors on all sides.
Among the main themes, the Side Event will focus on ensuring water management for all ecosystem functions and food security, political willingness to ensure a multi-sector and multi-scale approach, strengthening societal and water users empowerment and building a regional co-ownership on water resources management.
Starting from the activities performed by the FP4BATIW project partners, the Side Event will cover several issues, such as:
- Ensuring water management for all ecosystem functions and food security;
- Political willingness is needed to ensure a multi-sector and multi-scale approach;
- Strengthening societal and water users empowerment, improving dialogue as well as mutual trust among institutions, researchers and society;
- Building a regional co-ownership on water resources management, from challenges identification to financial and implementation synergy.
Together with other R2I projects, FP4BATIW enhance the scientific capacities of the MPC, increasing the impact and coherence of initiatives in the region as well as underlining the values of mutual respect, reciprocity and partnership. In this sense, there will be the presentation of different success stories as well as examples of training and improvement of MPC human resources concerning innovation management, business development and team management skills to face the needs of investors. Such kind of activities is addressed to speed up commercialization and optimization of potentially developed water treatment technologies, ensuring a constant flow of interaction with the market demand.
As a result of the event it is expected to increase the North-South cooperation within the Mediterranean area through identification of specific opportunities for collaboration between universities, private sector and institutions as well as exchange of ideas to raise the professionalism of young people concerning Best Available Water Treatment Technologies. Furthermore, it will be possible to engage and link research thematic networks dealing with water treatment technologies and individual researchers from the EU with their counterparts in the MPC.
Organiser:
REDINN, consulting company, via Mar di Bering 39b, 00040 Pomezia (RM) Italy
Website:
http://www.redinn.it/(opens in new window)
Contacts:
Gustavo Pérez
Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona
Gustavo.Perez@uab.cat
Leonardo Piccinetti
REDINN Brussels Director
redinn.projects@gmail.com
The Side Event is intended to contribute to raise awareness and achieve a Common Knowledge and Innovation space between the EU and MPC countries; in particular, it aims at tackling the issues with waste and waste water in societies and inefficiencies at local and regional level and how they can work with the innovation actors on all sides.
Among the main themes, the Side Event will focus on ensuring water management for all ecosystem functions and food security, political willingness to ensure a multi-sector and multi-scale approach, strengthening societal and water users empowerment and building a regional co-ownership on water resources management.
Starting from the activities performed by the FP4BATIW project partners, the Side Event will cover several issues, such as:
- Ensuring water management for all ecosystem functions and food security;
- Political willingness is needed to ensure a multi-sector and multi-scale approach;
- Strengthening societal and water users empowerment, improving dialogue as well as mutual trust among institutions, researchers and society;
- Building a regional co-ownership on water resources management, from challenges identification to financial and implementation synergy.
Together with other R2I projects, FP4BATIW enhance the scientific capacities of the MPC, increasing the impact and coherence of initiatives in the region as well as underlining the values of mutual respect, reciprocity and partnership. In this sense, there will be the presentation of different success stories as well as examples of training and improvement of MPC human resources concerning innovation management, business development and team management skills to face the needs of investors. Such kind of activities is addressed to speed up commercialization and optimization of potentially developed water treatment technologies, ensuring a constant flow of interaction with the market demand.
As a result of the event it is expected to increase the North-South cooperation within the Mediterranean area through identification of specific opportunities for collaboration between universities, private sector and institutions as well as exchange of ideas to raise the professionalism of young people concerning Best Available Water Treatment Technologies. Furthermore, it will be possible to engage and link research thematic networks dealing with water treatment technologies and individual researchers from the EU with their counterparts in the MPC.
Organiser:
REDINN, consulting company, via Mar di Bering 39b, 00040 Pomezia (RM) Italy
Website:
http://www.redinn.it/(opens in new window)
Contacts:
Gustavo Pérez
Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona
Gustavo.Perez@uab.cat
Leonardo Piccinetti
REDINN Brussels Director
redinn.projects@gmail.com