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Empowering Just and Unified Co-creative Solutions for Water Resilience in Europe’s Future

Objective

The JUST-WATER project, aligned with the EU Water Resilience Strategy (EWRS) addresses Europe’s water crisis amid climate change, demographic pressures, and socio-economic shifts by delivering an integrated resilience architecture through the Water Risk and Resilience Framework (WRRF), which embeds WEFE (Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems) and IPBES Nexus principles to standardise indicators for risk assessment, equitable allocation, and performance monitoring across diverse hydro-climatic contexts. Despite gains in water-use efficiency, the continent faces increasing risks of drought, floods, water shortages, and ecosystem damage, especially in southern regions. JUST-Water seeks to shift from reactive, siloed management to an integrated, proactive, and fair system for water resilience. The project integrates technological, nature-based, financial, and governance innovations into a comprehensive Water Risk and Resilience Framework (WRRF), based on the WEFE (Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem) Nexus and collaborative Public-Private-Civic Partnerships. By using advanced AI-powered monitoring, predictive modelling, knowledge sharing, and stakeholder engagement approaches, JUST-Water produces detailed data and decision-support tools for adaptable, inclusive water management. Six diverse EU demonstration sites—Bulgaria, France, Greece, Portugal, Malta, and Finland—will test solutions such as hybrid Nature-based and Ecosystem-based Solutions (NbSEbS) like Managed Aquifer Recharge, wetland restoration, sponge-city infrastructure, and peatland rewetting across six pilots. The Just-WRP platform will integrate a Federated Knowledge Graph, citizen VGI apps, WRRF dashboards, and CertaFin AI-finance engine with Smart Water Economy Methodology (SWEM) to monetise co-benefits and align with EU Taxonomy/Blue Deal.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-two-stage

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Coordinator

"NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ""DEMOKRITOS"""
Net EU contribution
€ 499 687,50
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END OF PATRIARCHOU GRIGORIOU E AND 27 NEAPOLEOS STREET
153 41 AGIA PARASKEVI
Greece
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€ 499 687,50

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