Boosting Impact and Strengthening Networks: Additional Activities in WaterWorks2017
During the lifetime of the Water JPI, many additional activities (AAs) have been set upThis month article describes the AAs for the WaterWorks2017 project. The aim of the AAs is to enhance and promote the work done during the program, communicate about the Joint Thematic Call (JTC) and improve the networking between scientists and/or the projects partners.
In WaterWorks2017 the AAs were focused on the Water JPI visibility and impacts, including the contribution to the EU and international political agendas on water related challenges. A ‘Pilot Call Workshop’ for the funded projects was organised on the 5th June 2018 in Helsinki, from which a Policy brief “Emerging water contaminants - anthropogenic pollutants and pathogens”, based on the impact from the results of the 2013 Pilot Call, was published.
Regarding the Water JPI visibility, a second international Water JPI Conference on “Emerging pollutants in freshwater ecosystems”, held in Helsinki on the 6-7th June 2018 was organised and hosted by AKA (Finland), with contributions from the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and the Natural Resources Institute Finland. The conference attracted over 200 participants from 27 countries (European and international), and over 90 abstracts were submitted for presentations. You will find more information on the Water JPI website.
In 2021, a 3rd conference has been organised in Mülheim, Germany, gathering experts from different Europe countries and Water JPI member countries, offering an insight into the projects funded. They had report on challenges and solutions from the perspective of research and practice (more details here).
In 2025, a 4th conference is planned, more information to come!
Also, two participations of the Water JPI and WaterWorks2017 to the EcoMondo conference, in Remini, Italy, have been organised in order to valorise the projects funded under WW2017. During those conferences coordinators of WaterWorks2017’s funded projects were invited to present their results to an audience of mainly end users, and provided an opportunity to further discuss the use and usefulness of this research, and to promote the work carried out.
We couldn’t talk about the AAs without mentioning the several participations of the Water JPI to international Fora like the World Water Forum in Brazil, the 5th ASEM seminar on Urban Water Management or the India-EU Water Forum! (find more details of these events on the Water JPI website and the newsletter).
To conclude, many AAs have been set up during the lifetime of the WaterWorks2017, through different forms, different topics and different purposes. They helped to highlight the work done by the Era-Net cofund and the Water JPI but also to enhance knowledge and good practices. They are a very important part of the Era-Net and a useful tool to share information and knowledge.
This was the last article dedicated to WaterWorks2017 EraNet Co-fund. The next series of articles will focus on the EraNet Co-Fund AquaticPollutants, an unprecedent collaboration between three joint programming initiatives (JPIs) on Water, Oceans and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), on risks posed to human health and the environment by pollutants and pathogens present in the water resources.