TOOLS
Water Europe (WE) will drive the transition to a Water-Smart Society through its Vision Leadership Teams. As the main instruments to test successful results of research, the WE Vision Leadership Teams define actions to foster and accelerate the process of bringing successful innovations to market in Europe and beyond.
The Vision Leadership teams are functioning as a top-down element in the WE governance under the direct guidance of the WE Board of Directors and all WE initiatives fit into their structure. A mission statement has been developed for each one of the Vision Leadership teams comprised of a Cluster leader, a Co-leader, and a Board Member.
The Vision Leadership teams are clustered in the matrix structure below.
The Value of Water: Mission Statement
🔹 The VLT Value of Water is the “holistic” WE VLT that builds on the cross-cutting principles of the WE Vision, which anticipates the EU Green Deal and the related strategies, and delivers the common rationale based on the “true” value of water as a basic principle to achieve a Water-Smart Society.
🔹 The Value of Water VLT provides visionary insights for structuring efficient water socio-economic and governance systemic models in which research and innovation results can be validated and migration paths to the Water-Smart Society experimented.
Digital Water: Mission Statement
🔹 The Digital Water VLT provides strategic leadership to prioritise the challenges of the digital transition of the water sector that requires paradigmatic changes and the adoption of a systemic approach to address the complexity of interconnected ecosystems, in the view of supporting the twin transition of the water and water-related sectors towards a Digital and Green Europe.
🔹The VLT will develop strategic recommendations for structuring the digital backbone of WOLLs in which research and innovation results can be validated and facilitate the migration paths to the future water-smart society in the digital age.
Circular Water: Mission Statement
🔹 The VLT Circular Water provides visionary leadership on how to address the challenges of the circular economy transition towards the achievement of a Water-Smart Society.
🔹 The Circular Water VLT develops strategic recommendations for structuring new strategies to underpin circular models that enhance the ability of our society 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 water-connected sectors as global circular economy forerunners.
Grey-Green infra: Mission Statement
🔹 The Water Europe Vision indicates that a rethinking and redesigning of water distribution and water service systems into a high-tech, human-built water infrastructure integrated into a nature-based ecosystem is the way forward to achieve a Water-Smart Society, within the priority of the EU Green Deal and related strategies.
🔹 The GGI VLT develops strategic insights and visionary models that allow the hybridisation of water infrastructures, enabling both the optimisation of the exploitation of multiple water sources in a circular economy, and the strengthening of the water ecosystems’ resilience against climate change events.
Water Smart Industry: Mission Statement
🔹 The VLT Water-Smart Industries will develop migration paths to the future Water-Smart Society with a focus on Industrial end-user needs and the circular economy.
🔹 The VLT defines visionary benchmarks for supporting the engagement with multi-stakeholder contexts willing to collaborate in realising the WE Vision by making available large-scale real-life industrial environments or WOLLs, in which combined research and innovation results, as well as governance, economic and finance models can be validated and taken to the market. The development of symbiotic strategies for water management with the Urban and Rural environments will also be part of the VLT Programme.
Water Smart Cities: Mission Statement
🔹 The VLT Water-Smart Cities will develop migration paths to the future Water-Smart Society with a focus on urban end-user needs and the circular economy. he VLT defines the visionary benchmarks for supporting the engagement with and the creation of multi-stakeholder Smart-City Living Lab environments and organisations willing to collaborate in realising the WE Vision.
🔹 The VLT will support the engagement of large-scale real-life urban WOLLs in which combined research and innovation results as well as new governance, economic and finance models can be validated and scaled up to the market by defining paths towards the future Water-Smart Society. The development of symbiotic strategies for water management with the Industrial and Rural contexts will also be part of the VLT Program.
Water Smart Rural: Mission Statement
🔹 The VLT Water-Smart Rural Areas will develop migration paths to the future Water-Smart Society with a focus on rural end-user needs and the circular economy. The VLT defines the visionary benchmarks for supporting the engagement with and the creation of multi-stakeholder Rural Living Lab environments and organisations willing to collaborate in realising the WE Vision.
🔹 The VLT will support the engagement of large-scale real-life rural WOLLs in which combined research and innovation results, as well as new governance, economic and finance models can be validated and taken to the market by defining paths towards the future Water-Smart Society. The development of symbiotic strategies for water management with Urban and Industrial environments will also be part of the VLT Program.
🔹Defining and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented with a focus on rural end-user needs.
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If you need more information regarding our Clusters please contact Andrea Rubini, WE Director of Operations.
