REWAISE reveals the full value of water for Europe, considering three key technical, economic and societal factors:
Value in water, by extracting minerals from seawater brine, recovering nutrients from wastewater, and converting all organic matter and biomass into energy.
Value through water, generating wellbeing in society through stakeholder participation and new governance methods to maximize the positive and new governance methods to maximize the positive effects of innovation for the users and the environment.
Value from water, developing the business of sustainable services and innovative products all along the water cycle, working with start-ups and SMEs to give them privileged access to the large utility users.
Website: rewaise.eu
LinkedIn: rewaise-eu-project
Twitter: REWAISE_EU
Project Coordinator: Frank Rogalla (FRogalla(at)fcc.es), Aqualia
Transition from linear to circular economy in the nexus of the water sector & intensive water-consuming industries
Creation of a Water-Smart Industrial Symbiosis by interlinking industries for reusing water, energy & materials from wastewater
Mobilisation of strong partnerships of water utilities, industry, technology providers, business developers & applied research institutes
Adoption of evidence-based approach anchored at 9 large-scale demonstrations with advanced technologies
Website: ultimatewater.eu
LinkedIn: ultimate-water-eu
Twitter: ULTIMATEWaterEU
Project Coordinator: Gerard van den Berg (Gerard.van.den.Berg(at)kwrwater.nl), KWR
WATER-MINING is an EU-funded multidisciplinary research project that creates water management solutions using a circular economy approach. The project’s consortium consists of 38 public and private partners and four linked third parties from 12 countries and is led by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, the Netherlands). WATER-MINING works with pilot sites in Cyprus, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and the Netherlands to demonstrate new and efficient ways to reclaim nutrients, minerals, biopolymers, energy, and freshwater from desalination, and industrial and urban wastewater. To successfully integrate these value-added products into resource supply chains, the project produces science-based, market-oriented policy recommendations, designs circular business models, and engages stakeholders, leading to sustainable management of water resources.
Website: watermining.eu
LinkedIn: water-mining
Twitter: watermining
Project Coordinator: Dimitris Xevgenos (D.Xevgenos(at)tudelft.nl)
MISSION: WIDER UPTAKE aims to facilitate industrial symbiosis in order to increase resource efficiency, limit emissions and develop sustainable business based on water-smart solutions. Our hypothesis is that the barriers are not only technological but also of organizational, regulatory, social and economic character.
IMPACT: After demonstrating water-smart, circular economy solutions, we will develop an open access roadmap on how to upscale and implement such solutions on a wider scale, in Europe and beyond.
Website: wider-uptake.eu
LinkedIn: Wideruptakeeu
Project Coordinator: Herman Helness (Herman.Helness(at)sintef.no), SINTEF
B-WaterSmart accelerates the transformation to water-smart economies and societies in coastal Europe and beyond. The project:
- Enables systemic innovation through Communities of Practice and Living Labs
- Creates water-smart coastal regions
- Exploits the potential of smart resource allocation
- Fosters resource recovery, circular economy, and ecosystem regeneration
- Facilitates a water-smart culture
- Demonstrates the gain in water-smartness as a novel and holistic concept
- Stimulates new business opportunities
- Boosts EU and international accessibility and replication, exchange and uptake of innovations
The Water Europe Marketplace for circular economy (developed under B-WaterSmart, Ultimate and other projects) is a flexible platform for finding and sharing innovative solutions and systems in the domains of water, energy, and materials that support the market uptake of innovation.
Website: b-watersmart.eu
LinkedIn: b-watersmart-project
Twitter: B_WaterSmart
Project Coordinator: David Schwesig (d.schwesig(at)iww-online.de), IWW Zentrum Wasser
