Water Projects Europe
What is Water Projects 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 Projects Europe
Projects participated in the previous WPE editions
The role of Wetlands and other Nature-Based Solutions in tackling Water Scarcity in the Circular Economy era
07 November 2022, 14:00 – 17:00
📌 Online & in Lyon, France
About the event
Together with the HYDROUSA project and INRAE/INSA, Water Europe is organizing the clustering workshop Water Projects Europe as part of the IWA Conference that intends to contribute to addressing the role of wetlands and other nature-based solutions in tackling water scarcity.
This edition of WPE highlights initiatives and projects on NBS as well as the participation of the representative of local government and utility. The panel will discuss solutions and barriers that can foster or hinder NbS as a tool for restoring and creating wetlands in urban and rural areas for efficient water management and support the achievement of the objectives of the EU Green Deal and the Zero-Pollution Strategy.
The focus of Water Projects Europe will be to:
☑Promote resource recovery and circularity in the water sector by the implementation of NbS and the integration of green with grey infrastructure;
☑Enhance a sustainable urban water management cycle through constructed and already existing wetlands;
☑Restore degraded wetlands using NbS to improve the resilience of ecosystems, toward a zero-pollution;
☑Promote models to make wetlands an attractive deal for society, business, and the environment;
☑Develop smart governance policies and processes for wetlands in cities and towns to support and optimise stakeholders’ engagement and decision-making for a Water-Smart Society.
How to join the event
Water Projects Europe 2022 event is organised in the context of the 17th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control 2022, to be held in Lyon from the 6th to the 10th November 2022. If you wish to attend in person, register here. To register for the online participation, register at this link.
Agenda
14:00 – 14:15Â Welcome from HYDROUSA, IWA and Water Europe
– 2/3 poll questions
14:10 – 14:30 Keynote speech (HYDROUSA)
– Simos Malamis – NTUA, Project Coordinator
14:30 – 15:20 Projects Presentation
– SOLU-BIOD: Xavier Le Roux, BioEEnViS
– COST Action Circular Cities: Guenter Langergraber, BOKU
– MULTISOURCE: Fabio Masi, Iridra
– NICE: Daiane Trevisan, CETIM
– FIT4REUSE: Attilio Toscano, University of Bologna
15:20 – 15:40 Networking coffee
15:40 – 16:20 Presenting the perspectives of different actors on Wetlands and NbS in tackling water scarcity in the Circular Economy
– The governance side -(Metropolitan) city (tbc)
– The implementing side: Ms Birgit De Bock, Aquafin
– The financing side: Mr. Marco BeroÅ¡, Senior Expert, Water Division, Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank
– The connection side: Connecting actors in urban water orientated NBS: the experience from the H2020 NICE and MULTISOURCE projects, Carme Machà Castañer, ICLEI
16:25 – 16:40 Panel discussion between governance, implementation, investments, and projects about running and future challenges and way to address them (moderated by IWA and Water Europe)
16:40 – 17:00 Final poll questions. Takeaways and conclusions, IWA and Water Europe
Organizers
If you need more information regarding the event’s registration process or payment settings, please contact Ms. Anca Popa, Community & Events Manager.
