Project description
Water innovation for smart economy
As water is vital to sustaining life, the REWAISE project creates a new smart water ecosystem, embracing the true value of water and paving the way for a resilient circular economy. New business niches will incentivise water-related investments and accelerate SME growth. By linking users with specific water needs and collective actions, new governance frameworks will generate high social returns, maximising value in water (putting to beneficial use dissolved substances such as nutrients, minerals, chemicals and metals, as well as organic matter and energy, embedded in water streams), value from water (enhancing activities inherent to the water cycle, products and services that generate benefits and jobs) and value through water (fostering societal and well-being functions of water, while minimising emissions).
Objective
REWAISE will create a new “smart water ecosystem”, mobilising all relevant stakeholders to make society embrace the true value of water, reducing freshwater and energy use, resulting in a carbon free, sustainable hydrological cycle, to transition into a resilient circular economy.
A network of nine living labs, involving 5 major water utilities, demonstrates real-life, large-scale operational environments for technological innovations and new governance methods to secure a resource-efficient water supply for the EU. New business niches will be created, incentivizing water-related investments, and accelerating SME growth, by linking users with specific water needs, incorporating life cycle and cost assessments, and collective action in new governance frameworks for smart value creation and high social returns.
By incorporating paradigm shifts from a linear Roman heritage to a new circular, water-smart economy, REWAISE reveals the full Value of Water for Europe, considering 3 key components of the economic and societal value generated by integral water cycles:
• Value in Water: is accomplished by extracting and putting to beneficial use dissolved substances such as nutrients, minerals, chemicals and metals, as well as organic matter and energy, embedded in raw and used water streams.
• Value from Water: encompasses the economic activities inherent to the water cycle, related products and services that generate benefits and jobs, directly or in other sectors that depend on water, such as energy and transportation,
• Value through Water: the societal, health and well-being functions of water, which will be enhanced by inter-linking users, regulators, water operators and other stakeholders in electricity and chemicals markets through a digital platform that optimizes decision making and business opportunities through socio-economics-based coordination between them, while minimizing emissions , risks and vulnerability.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Main Programme
- 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
Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
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Participants (31)
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709 00 Ostrava
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CV1 2LZ Coventry
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201 21 Malmo
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221 00 Lund
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223 70 Lund
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223 70 Lund
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61-492 Poznan
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1210 SINT JOOST TEN NOODE
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20018 San Sebastian
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41007 Sevilla
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200 42 Malmo
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216 10 Limhamn
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202 14 Malmo
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31320 Castanet-Tolosan
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90145 PALERMO
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Cork
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2800 Kobenhavn
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08192 Sant Quirze Del Valles
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S4 7UQ Sheffield
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W1W 5AB London
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40 844 Katowice
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46010 Valencia
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708 00 Ostrava Poruba
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10000 Zagreb
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15180 Culleredo
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CV1 5FB Coventry
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22100 Lund
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60-965 POZNAN
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28020 Madrid
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90133 Palermo
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CV47EZ Coventry
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