Project description
The future of sustainable water management
Sustainable water management is a challenge. Today’s pressing issues, such as water scarcity and pollution, transcend national borders and require collaborative solutions. However, tackling these complex problems demands more than isolated efforts; it necessitates a coordinated approach across diverse regions and sectors. The EU-funded Water Smart Connect project is designed to foster innovation ecosystems that span geographical and disciplinary boundaries. Specifically, it seeks to build a smart society. Through regional data gathering and engagement with stakeholders from academia, industry, government, and civil society (the quadruple-helix), it identifies key innovation areas. Cross-regional workshops then formulate action plans to bridge regional gaps and generate innovative ideas. The project aims to match stakeholders and ideas.
Objective
Today’s urgent challenges are inherently complex and systemic and will not be solved by individual actors or territories in isolation. To foster enabling innovation ecosystems across the EU, a systemic approach that is inclusive and collaborative is required. Diverse actors from separate regions ensure an equitable diffusion of benefits and maximise the value of innovation for all.
This project aligns with EIE’s aims to create more connected, inclusive and efficient innovation ecosystems that support the scaling of companies and spur innovation to address important challenges in a responsible way. Previous projects and collaboration (i.e. WST, S3P) are used as the foundation for this further development.
Proposal topics
The project will focus on digitalisation within water-heavy sectors as an enabler to create a water smart society.
Concept
The project will take a threefold approach to driving cross-regional innovation with the water-smart focus area. These are:
1) Prioritisation of key innovation areas
Regionally, the project will generate a base of qualitative and quantitative data on existing capacities, gained from partners' experience and knowledge, and through engagement of quadruple-helix stakeholders. This process will drive the identification of innovation priority areas regionally.
2) Cross-regional actions
Through cross-regional workshops, key innovation areas and gaps will be identified with a focus on formulating cross-regional action plans that generate a pipeline of specific ideas / concepts for future projects. The workshops will analyse gaps in the competences of each of the regions to foster cross-regional collaboration.
3) Idea generation and partner matching
Based on the cross-regional workshops, the partners will select / match key innovation ideas and stakeholders through workshops, webinars, and digital co-creation. The focus will be to develop a pipeline of concepts for future collaboration ( E.g. EUREKA, Water4All, Horizon Europe)
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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HORIZON.3.2.3 - Joint programmes close to innovators
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-01
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70200 KUOPIO
Finland
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