Objective
The NextGen initiative will evaluate and champion innovative and transformational circular economy solutions and systems that challenge embedded thinking and practices around resource use in the water sector. We will produce new understandings to underpin the exploitation of techniques and technologies that enhance our ability to recover, refine, reuse, repurpose, capture value from, and extend the use-life of, an ever-increasing range of resources and products, thereby projecting the European water and allied sectors as global circular economy pioneers. NextGen will demonstrate innovative technological, business and governance solutions for water in the circular economy in ten high-profile, large-scale, demonstration cases across Europe, and we will develop the necessary approaches, tools and partnerships, to transfer and upscale.
The circular economy transition to be driven by NextGen encompasses a wide range of water-embedded resources: water itself (reuse at multiple scales supported by nature-based storage, optimal management strategies, advanced treatment technologies, engineered ecosystems and compact/mobile/scalable systems); energy (combined water-energy management, treatment plants as energy factories, water-enabled heat transfer, storage and recovery for allied industries and commercial sectors) and materials (nutrient mining and reuse, manufacturing new products from waste streams, regenerating and repurposing membranes to reduce water reuse costs, and producing activated carbon from sludge to minimise costs of micro-pollutant removal).
The project mobilises a strong partnership of water companies, industry, specialised SMEs, applied research institutes, technology platforms, city and regional authorities and builds on an impressive portfolio of past research and innovation projects, leveraging multiple European and global networks guaranteeing real impact.
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.5.2.3. - Provide knowledge and tools for effective decision making and public engagement
- H2020-EU.3.5.4. - Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
- H2020-EU.3.5.2.2. - Developing integrated approaches to address water-related challenges and the transition to sustainable management and use of water resources and services
Call for proposal
H2020-CIRC-2017TwoStage
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
3433 PE Nieuwegein
Netherlands
Participants (31)
10709 Berlin
5210 Windisch
MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
91190 Gif Sur Yvette
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
100 31 Stockholm
15780 Athina
EX4 4QJ Exeter
10682 Athina
26123 Oldenburg
BA2 7AY Bath
5245 NB Rosmalen
1117 Budapest
1030 Bruxelles
Participation ended
020528 Bucuresti
38176 Wendeburg
BA2 7WW Bath
CV1 2LZ Coventry
3433 PE Nieuwegein
2509LP Den Haag
5283 WB Boxtel
08820 El Prat De Llobregat
08036 Barcelona
11146 Athina
10438 Athina
13671 Acharnes Athina
621 81 Visby
9423 Altenrhein
8400 Winterthur
300081 Timisoara
023973 Bucuresti
