Objective
The objective of the proposed Specific Support Action (SSA) is to check the feasibility of ERA-Net project on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at a European scale (including candidate countries), from the point of view of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD); with a further possible openness to other countries (in particular NIS and Africa) within the framework of the European Water Initiative (EUWI) to be also examined (or a connection to a ERA-Net proposal from the ad hoc European working group).
The proposed SSA will consist with :
Identify and describe all the national programmes in the concerned countries, which have a relationship to IWRM;
Locate the sources of information on recent and current projects;
Identify and contact the persons-in-charge for these programs;
Organise a workshop of these programme managers to prepare the basis of a long-term collaboration, as a base for the ERA-Net proposal;
Propose new ways of reinforcing the dialogue with stakeholders, in order to develop a more demand-driven research, and a better dissemination of outputs.
in order to formalise a CA proposal.
In each country, a specialised consultant will be commissioned to prepare a monograph according to a common framework, defined by a Steering Committee made up of INBO members, progressively open to national or local persons-in-charge of the identified research programmes.
The workshop will join together around fifty invited research programme managers (1 to 3 per country), to improve and validate proposals for action prepared by the Steering Committee from an holistic analysis of the country reports; this creativity workshop will define working rules of a future exchange network ready to support synergies between programmes and a better valorisation of their outcomes at practitioners level.
Call for proposal
ERA-NET/1/CA-SSA
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Funding Scheme
SSA - Specific Support ActionCoordinator
PARIS
France