Water is central to all human activities, to all components of the EU Green Deal and to several UN SDGs. The Water4All Partnership aims at enabling water security for all on the long term through boosting systemic transformations and changes across the entire research – water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers. It gathers more than 70 partners, R&I funders, environment ministries, local authorities, European, national and regional-scale networks, research performing organisations. It will collaborate with other relevant R&I initiatives. Water4All proposes a portfolio of multi-national, cross-sectoral activities, targeting a variety of actors, intending to generate the
following outputs:
- Strengthen the water R&I collaboration at European and international levels, across more than 28 countries, notably through 6 Joint Transnational Calls
- Coordinate and leverage the activities of the Water R&I community
- Support and promote the demonstration and access to market of innovative solutions
- Produce, share and better communicate water-related knowledge & data, from local to global scales
- Enhance talent development of water R&I professionals
- Foster capacity development and life-long training of water policy-makers, stakeholders and civil society
- Design & implement approaches for participatory development of innovation
Water4All will run its activities across 7 themes of its strategic agenda: water for circular economy; water for ecosystems and biodiversity; sustainable water management; water and health; water infrastructure; international cooperation; water governance.
Water4All’s outputs will contribute to:
- Deliver sound knowledge, tools and evidence basis on water for policy- & decision-making
- Improve consideration of water impacts in all relevant policies
- Enhance the field/market use of innovative solutions to water challenges
- Increase citizens’ awareness and engagement for an inclusive water