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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
Identify, better understand, define and update the Water Europe SIRA challenges related to new socio-economic, financial and multi-stakeholder governance models based on the “true” value of water, in order to increase rational use and re-use, based on the multiple waters concept.
Provide recommendations for structuring and selecting real-life multi-stakeholder living lab environments (including outside of Europe) in which research and innovation results, including socio-economic and governance models, can be validated and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented.
Team Leader
Gonzalo DELACAMARA (IMDEA)
WE Board Member
David MARTIN (NALCO)
Smart Water Treatment: Mission Statement
Identify, better understand, define and update the Water Europe SIRA challenges related to water treatment and management technologies that enable advanced water-treatment solutions to achieve a good status of the European water bodies and improve solutions to reduce water use in agriculture, urban and industrial areas, amongst others based on multiple waters concept and fostering recycling.
Provide recommendations for structuring and selecting real-life multi-stakeholder living lab environments (including outside of Europe) in which research and innovation results, including water treatment and management technologies, can be validated and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented.
Team Leader
Christian KATZNER (FHNW)
WE Board Member
Wim VAN VIERSSEN (KWR)
Digital Water: Mission Statement
Identify, better understand, define and update the Water Europe SIRA challenges related to Digital Water and Decision Support systems to foster the deployment of advanced digital solutions for water distribution systems and new decision support processes that reduce water use in agriculture, urban and industrial areas
Provide recommendations for structuring and selecting real-life multi-stakeholder living lab environments (including outside of Europe) in which research and innovation results, including Digital Water and Decision Support systems, can be validated and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented.
Team Leader
Guillaume BINET (SUEZ)
WE Board Member
Jorge JUAN MALFEITO (Acciona)
Value in water: Mission Statement
Identify, better understand, define and update the Water Europe SIRA challenges related to technologies, incentives and business models that foster the exploitation of the value in water, meaning extracting and valorising relevant resources, such as nutrients, minerals, metals but also energy that is embedded in used water streams.
Provide recommendations for structuring and selecting real-life multi-stakeholder living lab environments (including outside of Europe) in which research and innovation results, including technologies, incentives and business models for the Value in Water can be validated and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented.
Team Leader
Josef KLINGER (DVGW)
WE Board Member
Dirk VAN DER STEDE (Vlakwa)
Hybrid grey and green infra: Mission Statement
Identify, better understand, define and update the Water Europe SIRA challenges related to hybrid grey and green water infrastructure that foster thinking and redesigning the water distribution and water service systems into a high-tech human-built water infrastructure integrated with a nature based ecosystem, taking into account the impact on health risks and cost-effectiveness and strengthening resilience against climate change events, especially droughts and floods
Provide recommendations for structuring and selecting real-life multi-stakeholder living lab environments in which research and innovation results, including hybrid grey and green water infrastructure, can be validated and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented.
Team Leader
Frans VAN DE VEN (DELTARES)
Co-Leader
Tristan DEBUIGNE (IXSANE)
WE Board Member
Hans GOOSSENS (De Watergroep)
Water Innovation Systems: Mission Statement
Support the overall objectives of the Water Europe Vision and realization of the WE SIRA by fostering a favourable innovation eco-system and political landscape by promoting:
− largely accepted Standards for Water Footprint Assessment and Stewardship
− enhanced sharing knowledge education, capacity development, awareness and best practices in water
− Water advocacy, planning and management capacity
Support identification and implementation of highly transformative water innovations in support of the SDGs through policy support, innovation capacity, and active/effective partnerships
Provide recommendations for structuring and selecting real-life multi-stakeholder living lab environments in which research and innovation results, including horizontal issues as defined in this mission, can be integrated, validated and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented.
Team Leader
Tom VEREIJKEN (EWP)
Co-Leader
Maria Cristina PASI (IZAR)
WE Board Member
Ask MÖLLER NIELSEN (Grundfos)
Water Smart Industry: Mission Statement
Identify, better understand, define the user needs and specifications of integrated solutions related to Water-smart Industries that: combine existing and emerging R&D results (e.g. from the other Water Europe Clusters) into collaborative projects and integrated solutions and showcase water solutions for industrial applications within experimental environments in which industries (including bio-industries) collaborate with other users to govern regional water management systems.
Define criteria for selecting WE “branded” multi-stakeholder Industrial Living Lab environments and organisations (in and outside of Europe) and select a number of relevant organisations (e.g. Industrial Parks) willing to collaborate in realising WE’s Vision by making available a large scale real life industrial environment in which combined research and innovation results (including non-technological results such as new governance, economic and finance models can be validated, and defining a migration paths to the future water-smart society with a focus on Industrial end-user needs.
Team Leader
Geoff TOWNSEND (NALCO)
Co-Leader
Miquel ROVIRA (Eurecat)
WE Board Member
Xavier Litrico (Suez)
Water Smart Cities: Mission Statement
Identify, better understand, define the user needs and specifications of integrated solutions related to Water-smart Cities that combine existing and emerging R&D results (e.g. from the other Water Europe Clusters) into collaborative projects and integrated solutions and showcase water solutions for urban applications within experimental environments in which cities collaborate with other users to govern regional water management systems.
Define criteria for selecting WE “branded” multi-stakeholder Smart-City Living Lab environments and organisations (in and beyond Europe) and select a number of relevant organisations (e.g. Metropolitan Governments, regional delegations and National Associations of Municipalities) willing to collaborate in realising WE Vision by making available a large-scale real life urban environment in which combined research and innovation results (including non-technological results such as new governance, economic and finance models can be validated, defining paths towards the future water-smart society with a focus on Urban end-user needs.
Team Leader
Jens PRISUM (CALL COPENHAGEN)
Co-Leader
Chrysi LASPIDOU (UTH)
WE Board Member
Richard ELELMAN (Eurecat)
Water Smart Rural: Mission Statement
Identify, better understand, define the user needs and specifications of integrated solutions related to Water-smart rural environments that: combine existing and emerging R&D results into collaborative projects and integrated solutions and showcase water solutions for rural applications within experimental environments in which industries (including bio-industries) collaborate with other users to govern regional water management systems.
Define criteria for selecting WE “branded” multi-stakeholder Rural Living Lab environments and organisations and select a number of relevant organisations (e.g. farmer(s) cooperatives, nature preservation organisations) willing to collaborate in realising WE Vision by making available a large-scale real-life environments in which combined research and innovation results (including non-technological results such as new governance, economic and finance models) can be validated.
Defining and migration paths to the future water-smart society experimented with a focus on rural end-user needs.
Team Leader
Jochen FROEBRICH (WUR)
WE Board Member
Tomas MICHEL (WE President)
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If you need more information regarding our Clusters please contact Andrea Rubini, WE Director of Operations.
