Water Projects Europe
What is Water Project Europe?
Water Projects Europe (WPE) is a series of events of Water Europe made to learn from and build on the experience of innovating projects working on converging topics. The event’s objectives are:
🔹 Foster collaboration and synergies between EU-funded projects.
🔹 Develop strategies for the market outreach of the projects’ outcomes.
🔹 Extract and valorise components useful to policy building.

Previous editions of Water Project Europe
Water Projects Europe Clustering event: Nature-based solutions for water security and ecological qualities in cities: challenges pressures and opportunities
02 June 2022 at 14:00 – 16:30
Today, more than 55% of the world’s population lives in cities, cities are home to 80% of global GDP and are responsible for 70% of CO2 emissions and 75% of natural resource consumption. However, if planned well and supported by an ambitious policy, cities can reduce humanity’s environmental impact, as they can meet human needs more efficiently and find synergies between urban development and nature conservation. The EU-funded MULTISOURCE project aims to facilitate the systematic city-wide planning of Nature-based Solutions for urban water treatment, storage and reuse and will support decision-making with co-designed tools, contributing to the achievement of a Water-Smart Society.
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are increasingly adopted as an effective tool to address urban challenges, as they provide a range of ecological, social, and economic benefits. But to what extent do current policy frameworks support or hinder their implementation? How the concept of NbS is addressed in selected EU and Member State policies and funding instruments? What are the financial challenges for the sustainability of NbS?
To address these issues and to improve cooperation between EU-funded projects, MULTISOURCE and Water Europe are co-organising a clustering event in the framework of the project clustering actions to share the results of different approaches while tackling the associated challenges and share knowledge and experience on urban NbS among projects dealing with the same objectives. Four EU funded NbS focused projects (MULTISOURCE, NICE, HYDROUSA, UNALAB, CONNECTING NATURE) are invited to discuss at WPE
The event is part of Water Project Europe (WPE) that is a series of events of Water Europe made to learn from and build on the experience of innovating projects working on converging topics. WPE aims at clustering water-related projects by thematic areas to allow them to interact, mutually build on the respective experience, support policy development and stimulate the market uptake of innovations.
This edition of WPE intends to:
-Foster collaboration and synergies between NbS EU-funded projects.
-Develop strategies for the market outreach of the projects’ outcomes.
-Extract and valorise components useful to policy building for NbS development.
Agenda
 Welcome and introduction Water Europe and MULTISOURCE
14:00-14:10

Andrea RubiniÂ
Water Europe

Jaime Nivala
INRAE
14:10-4:30
 Keynote speech on nature-based solutions

Kamal Arzague
SINTEF
14:30-15:45
 Projects presentation

Maria Wirth
MULTISOURCE

Daiane Trevisan
NICE

Simos Malamis
Hydrousa

Laura Wendling
UNaLaB

Antonia Lorenzo
Connecting Nature
14:45-16:20
 Panel discussion (moderated) (Projects’ Speakers and POs) and Q/A session
16:20-16:30
 Takeaways and conclusions
Organizers
If you need more information regarding the event’s registration process or payment settings, please contact Ms. Anca Popa, Event Coordinator.
Projects participated in the previous WPE editions
