Water Innovation opportunities in Europe and the role of ICT for water management and governance.

1. EIP Water
European Innovation
Partnership on Water
Boosting opportunities - Innovating water
ICT4Water Open Day
22 September 2015

2. EIP Water
Objective
Facilitate, support and speed up development,
application and deployment of innovative solutions to
water challenges
Water policy recommendations
Addressing barriers & bottlenecks
Practice based

3. EIP Water
Priority areas

4. EIP Water
Addressing barriers & bottlenecks
1. Access to funding and adequate financial
instruments
2. Overcoming regulatory barriers
3. Promoting best practises in public procurement for
innovation
4. Identifying the role of Public-Public/Public-Private
Partnerships
5. Promoting testing facilities and dissemination of
showcases

5. EIP Water
Means to realise
 11 InnoDemo Projects & 29 Action Groups
 Expert Groups (ad-hoc)
 EIP Water annual conference (10 Feb 2016 in NL)
 Online Marketplace (including ‘projects’ and ‘products
& services’)
 Newsletters and other communications

6. EIP Water
EIP Water and ICT in water innovation
 Smart water management systems from sensors to
networks to platforms to DSS
 Model, method and monitoring standards across all
water domains
 Cross-cutting all priority areas and Action Group work
Four ICT focused Action Groups:
 RTWQM - Real Time Water Quality Monitoring
 AugMent - Water Monitoring for Decision Support
 CTRL+SWAN - Cloud Technologies & ReaL time
monitoring + Smart WAter Network
 RESEWAM-O - Remote sensing for water
management optimization

7. EIP Water
EIP Water and new H2020 call round (in draft)
EIP Water priority areas specifically included
2 water calls (in draft)
 SPIRE-01-2016: Systematic approaches for resource-
efficient water management systems in process
industries
 CIRC-02-2016-2017: Water in the context of the
circular economy
19 potential relevant other calls (in draft)
 Water & ICT a.o. – see updated list at EIP W when call
in final version

8. EIP Water
Advantages of EIP Water
• Online show and workspace
• Inclusion in monthly newsletter to 4,000+
professionals
• Disseminate events and showcase your work, incl. at
annual conference
• Networking and collaborate with AGs and projects
• Search of people, projects, organisations
Join and benefit by registering at:
www.eip-water.eu