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🆕 New article on our blog: "Nature-Based Solutions (NBS): a growing market key to addressing global challenges". Discover the main challenges and opportunities of NBS, vital for tackling major global issues 👉 https://lnkd.in/dGUxv64Q Among the main solutions for scaling them up, we highlight the collaboration between actors from a multilevel, multi-actor, and multidimensional strategy. This systemic approach is precisely what nurtures The Gap in Between, the global event to jointly solve worldwide challenges. More information and event registration here: https://lnkd.in/d4ZBRF2y

🔵#Live from the Blue Deal Congress: Changing the future in Warsaw. 📍Today, Durk Krol, Executive Director of Water Europe, took the stage during the session "The Importance of Water in the Energy Transition". What were his key points? 🔎 It’s essential to focus on the true needs of society, the economy, and the environment, rather than relying only on new legislation. ♻ If we want a sustainable business, we need to ensure its competitiveness while ensuring sustainability. Both go through water security. 💡 The water-energy nexus is crucial in our successful sustainability transition. 🌱Solutions like #nature-based approaches and digital tools are essential. 💰 We need Blue Funds across Europe to support local authorities, industries, and farmers in building a #WaterSmartSociety. ✨Durk also highlighted projects like MULTISOURCE, ARSINOE_EU, ULTIMATE Water EU , iMERMAID EU, Innovative WAter recoverY Solutions, and NEXOGENESIS as leading examples in water innovation. #WaterResilienceStrategy #WaterSmartSociety #Manifesto #Circularprocesses #WaterEnergyNexus #waterefficiency #WaterOrientedLivingLabs

Last chance to register for the European Water Tech Accelerator’s Green Week Partner Event workshop “How to build a Water Positive Economy?”. It will be held this coming Thursday 30 May online from 2pm to 4.30pm CET. The Green Week is the annual European Commission’s Directorate General for Environment event to raise awareness and discuss environmental policies. This year’s theme is “Towards a Water Resilient Europe”. Our event will focus on how to build a Water Positive Economy in Europe, and more specifically, how to develop, apply and deploy water tech to reach water resilience, whilst ensuring economic growth, driving profitability and creating jobs. We would like to discuss how the innovative water tech ecosystem can be a driver for the economy, though deploying them to a scale that is significant enough to: -       Become a key sector for driving the European economy -       Become attractive enough to the industry and the engineering sector, to consider the innovations as an investment rather than as a cost. The key expected outcome of the workshop: at the end of the workshop, 10 recommendations aiming at facilitating the deployment of innovations in Europe will have been drafted. Come and join us to contribute to building an EU Water Tech Ecosystem that will make Europe Water Positive https://lnkd.in/d_9jcvTA #EUGreenWeek #WaterWiseEU

🔴Water Europe officially opens the registration for the #WaterKIC event on October 21st in Brussels! 🌊Be the first to discover the new EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) dedicated to water, marine and maritime sector and ecosystems. 🎯The event will feature an #opencall for pitch presentations from potential Water KIC stakeholders. Participants will present their ideas and vision for addressing key water-related challenges, visions and expectations through the future Water KIC. After the pitches, all participants will be invited to join the round tables for discussions, where they can network, share insights, and explore opportunities for collaboration ✨ Why should you attend? 💡Hear first-hand about the new #WaterKIC and its role in driving a sustainable Water-Smart Society. 🤝Connect with top leaders in research, business, and education from across Europe. 💡Learn from #EIT’s innovation models and find out how successful partnerships have transformed the water, marine, and maritime sectors. 💼 Get Insights into #funding & opportunities to create lasting business models. 📅 October 21, 2024 📍 BluePoint, Brussels 🔗 Secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/eFFQ4UgU #WaterInnovation #Sustainability #BlueEconomy

EU strengthen awareness on the importance of Water Resilience 🌊 ‘Towards a Water-Resilient Europe’ is the theme of the EU Green Week 2024, and Water Valley Denmark was invited in the roundtable at the EuroTech Conference ‘Closing the loop: Building resilient water systems in the context of climate change’ in Brussels on 4 June 2024. The organizer, EuroTech Universities Alliance, is a coalition of leading technological universities in Europe. Irina Pavlova from UNESCO presented initially updated key figures on water. Globally, the demand on fresh water increases by 1 % annually, and ¼ of the World population face extreme water stress. 50 % of jobs globally are directly or indirectly dependent on access to clean water. In the roundtable, Bertrand Vallet from the EU Commission underlined the increased focus on dealing with the global water challenges in the EU Commission. There were also valuable inputs from Eran Friedler, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Daphne Gondhalekar, Technical University of Munich. Claus Homann from Aarhus Vand explained about the newest technological solutions to reduce water leakage and other sustainable solutions, while Jesper Borg Christensen from Water Valley Denmark presented the open innovation approach in Denmark between companies, utilities and universities, and invited to cooperation on developing a European innovation ecosystem on water in the framework of a Knowledge and Innovation Community. Please reach out to Jesper Borg Christensen if you are interested in hearing more. #waterresistance #waterinnovation

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EU strengthen awareness on the importance of Water Resilience 🌊 ‘Towards a Water-Resilient Europe’ is the theme of the EU Green Week 2024, and Water Valley Denmark was invited in the roundtable at the EuroTech Conference ‘Closing the loop: Building resilient water systems in the context of climate change’ in Brussels on 4 June 2024. The organizer, EuroTech Universities Alliance, is a coalition of leading technological universities in Europe. Irina Pavlova from UNESCO presented initially updated key figures on water. Globally, the demand on fresh water increases by 1 % annually, and ¼ of the World population face extreme water stress. 50 % of jobs globally are directly or indirectly dependent on access to clean water.  In the roundtable, Bertrand Vallet from the EU Commission underlined the increased focus on dealing with the global water challenges in the EU Commission. There were also valuable inputs from Eran Friedler, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Daphne Gondhalekar, Technical University of Munich. Claus Homann from Aarhus Vand explained about the newest technological solutions to reduce water leakage and other sustainable solutions, while Jesper Borg Christensen from Water Valley Denmark presented the open innovation approach in Denmark between companies, utilities and universities, and invited to cooperation on developing a European innovation ecosystem on water in the framework of a Knowledge and Innovation Community. Please reach out to Jesper Borg Christensen if you are interested in hearing more.  #waterresistance #waterinnovation

How do we Create Resilient Societies for the Future? To achieve resilient societies, research, knowledge-based decision-making, innovation, etc. is required. However, what are the necessary steps forward for creating resilient societies for the future? What is the key ingredient to more rapid change in Sweden and how can our international audience participate? Furthermore, what are the key challenges for governmental agencies focusing on innovation, energy and sustainability to prioritize? Listen to the directors general Darja Isaksson, Robert Andrén and Johan L Kuylenstierna from the three Swedish authorities Vinnova, Swedish Energy Agency and Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development Don't forget to register, it's free to participate: https://lnkd.in/eFYge8f3 #resilience #innovation #energy #sustainability

Delighted to have been invited to Community Energy Scotland’s annual conference, to introduce The Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (SISC). I covered what SISC has been established to achieve, why, who we are and how we can help communities. I also noted a few key research challenges, including: - 📈 scaling up community energy and quickly - 📏 monitoring and evaluating community benefit - 🔄 building ecosystems to support sustainable grassroots innovations - 🔥 community-scale decarbonisation of heat, esp rural communities and multi-occupancy, high density urban dwellings Key take-aways from subsequent discussions were: - ⛏️ avoid an extractive research model. We cannot repeat the mistakes of some “community engagement” that doesn’t close the feedback cycle and see external parties parachute in and out. It needs to be more embedded and longer-lasting collaboration. Big Q about what this looks like in reality. - 🧺 a single repository for open access data and research publications, where communities (and other stakeholders) can easily find and access relevant data or research findings. This needs long term funding and relies of broad partnership. - 📖 the importance of storytelling. Whilst big data sets and killer stats can turn heads, people and place-centered stories can win hearts and minds. They’re also a really effective way of disseminating insights. It’s an art form and we’d like to upskill ourselves on it. A great conference and thank you to the organisers and attendees. So much for us to consider about what SISC does and how it does it. We’re also keen for Local Zero Podcast to explore these themes in more detail, so please let me know if you might be keen to speak to these issues. #communities #sustainability #research

Here’s to Government and big corporations consulting, investing in and working more collaboratively with land and stakeholders (particularly farmers, country communities) for a sustainable, safer & more environmentally friendly future for all. https://lnkd.in/g47UCCBv