As global challenges in water management continue to intensify, Water Projects Europe 2025 places two flagship EU-funded projects – NEXOGENESIS and ARSINOE – at the centre of the debate on water policy transformation and climate resilience. At a time when Europe is preparing the upcoming Water Resilience Strategy, this event offers a timely and strategic opportunity to showcase how cutting-edge research and innovation can support the formulation and implementation of forward-looking water policies.
NEXOGENESIS is at the forefront of reshaping water governance, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to assess the impact of policy decisions on the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus. Through integrated, data-driven approaches, the project contributes to building a more informed, adaptive, and Water-Smart Society.
ARSINOE introduces a Systemic Innovation Approach (SIA) to climate change adaptation. With nine demonstration cases across Europe, the project demonstrates how context-specific, co-designed solutions can increase regional resilience and deliver sustainable impacts aligned with climate policy objectives.
Water Projects Europe 2025, part of Water Knowledge Europe and the Blue Deal Congress, unites policy, science, and practice. Access results and tools from NEXOGENESIS & ARSINOE projects, including policy impact assessment, innovation models, and adaptation strategies. This event fosters high-level dialogue on bridging research and implementation, offering insights for the EU Water Resilience Strategy. Connect with key stakeholders (researchers, policy-makers, industry) to advance Europe’s water resilience and sustainability.
WPE in Warsaw will explore how policy innovation and systemic water resilience to climate changes can move from projects to policy and from strategy to impact.
- Welcome Address, Andrea Rubini, Water Europe
- Keynote from the EC the contribution of NXG and ARSINOE to the Water Resilient Strategy
- Keynote Speeches, Water-Energy-Food-Energy Nexus and water Resilience to Climate change
- NEXOGENESIS Speaker: Sabina Khan, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Germany
- ARSINOE Speaker: Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia (KWR, Netherlands)
Speaker: Sabina Khan, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Germany
- Project Outcomes. Speaker: Sabina Khan, UFZ, Germany
- Policy-making framework: governance roadmaps which plot the pathways to policy (and whole-of-society) change towards improved nexus management
- Nexus Policy Assessment Tool (NEPAT): Artificial intelligence tool that that provides multi-objective analyses of the performance of cross-sectoral policy configurations & suggests optimised “policy packages” to meet sectoral goals
- Water-Energy-Food-Energy (WEFE) Nexus Footprint: impact assessment of policy packages on WEFE resources
- Case-study policy-specific recommendations: Adige, Jiu, Lielupe, Nestos & Inkomati river basins. Speaker: Sabina Khan, UFZ, Germany
- Assessment of Climate Resilience/Wheel– Nav Mustafee (University of Exeter, UK)
- Transboundary virtual watershed approach for resilient water resources management, speaker: Nicos Theodossiou, (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Climate Adaptation for flooding in coastal regions the case of south-west UK, Albert Chen (University of Exeter, UK)
- Case Study specific recommendations - CS Representatives
All speakers, moderated by Loïc Charpentier, Water Europe
- Panel discussion on policy recommendations
- Aligning research, policy and implementation
- Next steps and exploitation of project outcomes
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