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Candidate European Partnership Water Security for the Planet (Water4ALL)
SOST-CDTI session, 15/12/20
Panagiotis Balabanis and Avelino González-GonzálezEuropean CommissionDG Research & Innovation
European Partnership Cluster 6Water Security for the Planet (Water4All)
Form: Co-funded partnership
Partners: National/regional research funders and policy makers as core members, in association with other research and economic actors
Lead DG(s): R&I, ENV
Predecessor: Building on the work of the Water JPI, the EIP Water and the Water Europe Technology Platform
Proposal elaborated by partners:
▪ Preparation progressing well. Current draft available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/horizon-europe-next-research-and-innovation-framework-programme/european-partnerships-horizon-europe/candidates-food-security_en
SRIA development process:
▪ Under preparation, open process building on the existing ones
Launch: Horizon Europe WP 2021/22 (call 2021)
Problem, Drivers and Opportunities
▪ What are the problems?
✓ Water emergency crisis, out of track to achieve important EU water policies and SDGs
▪ What are the drivers of the problem?
✓ Complex challenges, R&I fragmentation, insufficient alignment between funders programs and timelines, knowledge transfer, no continuity of funding from research to implementation
▪ What are the strategic opportunities?
✓ Have EU, Member States, European platforms and private sector collaborating efficiently, increase R&I impacts, strengthen EU international role
Objectives
Vision: Boosting the systemic transformations and changes across the entire research –water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers for ensuring water security for all in the long term.
General objectives:
• Provide solutions to the current and increasing water crisis in the context of global changes
• Strengthen scientific evidence for new policies or update existing ones
• Supporting efficient collaboration and integration of EU, MS and international R&I activities in a multi-actors innovative approach
• Increase implementation of solutions and therefore global impacts.
Major expected impacts:
▪ Increased protection of water resources and ecosystems and strengthening of biodiversity
▪ Enhancing resilience, mitigation and adaptation of water systems to climate change.
▪ Pooling resources (EU, Member States, European platforms and economic sectors) and aligning a shared and co-developed SRIA and related implementation plans.
▪ Develop new instruments for cooperation, across stakeholders, sectors and scales.
▪ Greater cooperation across sectors, with multi-stakeholder engagement and empowerment.
▪ Reinforcing the EU's role in the international water agenda.
Research and innovation cycle
www.waterjpi.eu
Water4All Implementation Actions
Pillar B. Research and innovation Development
• Generate new knowledge and innovation
• Up to operational scale
Pillar C. Science – Policy - End-users interface
• Connect Science and innovation to policy-makers and operators
Pillar E. Internationalisation
• Global dimension – critical mass
• Strategic collaboration
Pillar D. Demonstrating Solution efficiency
• Deploying at local scale, with the relevant actors
• From pilot to full implementation
Pillar A. Joint vision & SRIA
For actions at all levels
Considering pertinent actors’ eligibility conditions
• Member states in form of national/ regional funding institutions:
Governing Board, decision-making body
• Associated Partners Board: all partners (industry, end-users) that
formally do not belong to the partnership, but participate at certain
activities, e.g.
• In programming and coordinating its own activities in pillar A
• Collaboration in areas of common interest (pillars C, D) through agreements
• Advisory Board: scientists, stakeholders and representatives of the EC
Membership
Budget – Estimation
• The initial global budget estimation amounts to 400-450 Mio. Euro.
• depending of the number, range and type of demonstration
sites / Living Labs willing to join
• EC proposed contribution: 50%
• Budget estimation, based on JPI activities - ready
Alignment
Joint calls
Science-policy-end users interface
Demonstration
Internationalisation
Reserve
Coordination / Management Estimated
Budget
✓Preparation started in June 2019 endorsed recently by several MS
✓A draft partnership proposal prepared by drafting group (online since last
May) with wide consultation, including MS
✓Commitments from partners, especially MS, requested for mid-October 2020
✓ A related Water4All partnership topic is included for 2021 in the draft WP 21-
22 currently discussed with the MS Expert Group of Cluster 6 of Horizon
Europe (WP 21-22 to be adopted Q1 of 2021)
Water4All partneship – State of play
Developing the Water4All SRIA
✓A joint SRIA is needed to ensure strategic orientation, systemic approach,
ex-ante demonstration of directionality, and commitment for
implementation
✓Long experience already available in earlier P2P and PPP partnerships
(for P2P information available at https://www.era-learn.eu/)
✓Build on the basis of the current Water4All proposal (policy
needs/intervention logic)
✓Need to consider available SRIAs in water (Water JPI, Water Europe, EIP
Water, Euraqua, Eureau, ….) and built on them
✓Ensure complementarity/synergies/coherence with activities in HE Work
Programmes and relevant Missions and other Partnerships
✓Emphasis of the first two years priorities
✓Ensure a transparent and consultative process
Water4All
RDI themes
1. Water for circular economy: smart water value
2. Water for ecosystems and biodiversity
3. Water for the future: sustainable water management
4. Water and health
5. Infrastructures for water
6. International cooperation (cross-cutting issue)
7. Governance (cross-cutting issue)
Climate change
Health Migration
Urbanisationand
population increase
DRIVERS
For many small business owners, maintaining positive cash flow and a stable
balance sheet can be an ongoing battle that consumes virtually all of their time.
Even retirement often seems like a distant speck.
The digital revolution (big data, AI, IoT)
Existing research infrastructures and
technologies
Open and Responsible
Research
ENABLERSChanges in
people’s vision towards natural
resources
Water4All’s RDI themes, drivers and enablers
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda – Current developments
Water JPIWater JPI Vision
2020
SRIA 0.5 - May 2013
SRIA 2.0 - April 2016
SRIA 2025 - April
2020
Water Europe SIRA June 2020
EURAQUA SRIA - June 2019
EUREAUInnovation Agenda
2020
PRIMA SRIA SRIA - 2018
FACCE JPI SRIA - 2016
Water4All SRIA
7 years
May 2021
First Implemen-
tation plan
Year 1 - 2 -
When
Partnership
established
Review and
assessment for
Water4All
needs
April - May 2020
Consultation of
EU networks
Advisory
Boards
October 2020
National &
Networks
Consultations
December 2020
Interviews of
stakeholders
January 2021
Experts
Stakeholder
Consultation
March 2021V1.0
V0.5
V0
Online consultation
Online survey open until the 11th January
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Water4All_SRIA_2
020
MS formal consultation onWater4All
➢ 20 MS (AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LV, NL, PL,
PT, SE, SK) and NO, expressed support and provided commitments
(cash and “in-kind”)
➢ BG supported without indicating commitments, while CY and LT are
still undecided
➢ SL and IS declared no interest
➢ 3 MS not replied yet
➢ An overall commitment of 234,4 M€ was provided
▪ 160,7 M€ cash
▪ 73,7 M€ in-kind
✓SRIA/Roadmaps to be finalised, with the necessary open and transparent consultation
of stakeholders/Member States, by the time the Commission commits to a partnership.
✓Ensure coherence and collaboration among partnerships, and synergies with other
programmes
✓Formal identification of supported European Partnerships in the 1st Strategic Plan of
Horizon Europe (expected in the begging of 2021) and adoption of 1st WP 2021-22
✓EC contribution to be determined (taking into consideration MFF budget, legal
requirements on capping and funding rates, etc.)
✓The financial management of co-funded European Partnerships to be more detailed
(e.g. eligible costs, in-kind contribution), as well as Cohesion policy funds contribution
(Official guidance and more details will be published in the Annotated Grant
Agreement),
Water4All partneship – Next steps
Thank you
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