Project description
A holistic, interdisciplinary approach to increasing water sector resilience
Data spaces are protected environments where participants can access, process and use data, amongst other things. With a focus on water data spaces, the EU-funded Waterverse project aims to develop a water data management ecosystem that will make data management practices and resources in the water sector accessible, affordable, secure, fair and easy to use. Waterverse will further improve the usability of data and the interoperability of data-intensive processes, therefore lowering the entry barrier to data spaces. A consortium of expert partners set up by the project will help increase the resilience of the water sector as a whole.
Objective
The WATERVERSE mission is to develop a Water Data Management Ecosystem (WDME) for making data management practices and resources in the water sector accessible, affordable, secure, fair, and easy to use, improving usability of data and the interoperability of data-intensive processes, thus lowering the entry barrier to data spaces, enhancing the resilience of water utilities and boosting the perceived value of data and therefore the market opportunities behind it. WATERVERSE takes a holistic, interdisciplinary approach in the water domain, blending together complementary competencies of 17 partners located in 10 EU countries, representing the water domain with Research organisations (including social sciences experts), water utilities, water domain technology providers and innovation companies, as well as the technical community that is driving the development of data spaces, thus increasing the resilience of the water sector and water utilities, as a whole.
The project will: (a) Actively engage end-users and stakeholders to assess the main gaps and challenges the water sector must overcome to effectively be part of and contribute to quality European data spaces; (b) Identify, extend, and integrate a wide set of data management tools to implement the WDME, based on FIWARE (www.fiware.org) Building Blocks and comprising tools and methods to ensure security and energy efficiency of the whole WDME; (c) Setup and demonstrate the WATERVERSE WDME in real environment with relevant and diverse case studies involving water sector stakeholders from 6 countries (Cyprus, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, United Kingdom); (d) Set clear and measurable indicators for assessing FAIRness of data in water-related data spaces; (e) Ensure the viability and sustainability of the WATERVERSE WDME, as well as its replicability, scalability and business applicability.
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
Greece
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Participants (15)
08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA
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29590 MALAGA
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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3433 PE NIEUWEGEIN
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02150 Espoo
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00144 ROMA
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2027 Nicosia
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06560 Valbonne
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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10587 Berlin
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1991 AS Velserbroek
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41012 Sevilla
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00370 Helsinki
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3011 Lemesos
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59872 Meschede
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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EX2 7HR Exeter
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