A review and qualification of the current availability of water data and metadata at the European level has been conducted, including: identification of companies and their offerings ready for market introduction, checking previous EU funded initiatives dealing with water management, screening and prioritisation, linkages with the market requirements, preparation of inventory with data sources, companies and solutions, dealing with the demand-side.
On the basis of a broad scan of the European stakeholders' landscape, key stakeholders were identified to be informed on the potential of the marketplace. Through surveys and interview processes a clear set of requirements and indicators to implement an intuitive user-friendly information portal and marketplace were defined.
Support was provided in the brokering of introductions between relevant parties, as well as facilitation of follow up discussions to encourage uptake of the new innovations. The key mechanisms employed to achieve these outcomes were: the Marketplace, stakeholder meetings, Young Professionals Competition, two E-Pitch events, publication of regular newsletters and bespoke communications.
Current standards and tools in water sector have been examined and the level of interoperability between them assessed, describing a strategy to make progress and increase the level of interoperability. A standardisation label has been proposed to identify the level of standardisation of water products and solutions. A River Basin Interoperability Experiment (RiBasE) has been executed, aimed at developing a solution for integrating data from different heterogeneous sources into a centralized hydrological model execution.
The WaterInnEU Marketplace shows a proof of concept for an innovative knowledge exchange platform in the water management domain. A key new benefit of the new platform is the openness for collaborative content creation and room to phrase opinions and discuss within a community of practice. The prototype has been implemented to address the requirements identified in the other work packages. It has been presented to stakeholders workshops in the case study revier basins and to the advisory board; a feedback has been considered in the second phase of the project.
The information and data gathered in previous WPs were used to develop training materials in order to carry out different e-learning courses.
2 pilot use case studies have been used to test the efficiency and benchmark the marketplace with some specific participants and needs: Maritsa and Scheldt.
The main project outcomes are:
• The marketplace portal:
https://marketplace.waterinneu.org(si apre in una nuova finestra)• The marketplace API:
https://marketplace.waterinneu.org/en/api(si apre in una nuova finestra)• The marketplace database: products, projects and organisations.
• The marketplace source code, in GitHub:
https://github.com/52North/waterinneu(si apre in una nuova finestra)• E-learning courses:
https://marketplace.waterinneu.org/en/e-learning(si apre in una nuova finestra) and
http://www.waterinneu.org/deliverables/Contents_e-learning.zip(si apre in una nuova finestra) • Servers and clients into the OGC Interoperability Pilot; the main outcomes are
o WPS server:
http://www.ogc.uab.cat/cgi-bin/WaterInnEU/MiraMon.cgi(si apre in una nuova finestra) o WFS server: http://62.82.217.38:8080/geoserver/web/
o WPS client:
http://www.ogc.uab.cat/WPS/WaterInneu/client/(si apre in una nuova finestra) o Pub/Sub client:
https://wieu-eventing.herokuapp.com/(si apre in una nuova finestra)• Set of deliverables with learned lessons in the project and recommendations by stakeholders, end-users, advisory board, etc.:
http://www.waterinneu.org/documents.html(si apre in una nuova finestra)
