Irish National Public Workshop (14-02-2019) Have your say on EU Research priorites for the future (i.e. Vision 2030 ans SRIA 3.0)
As part of the public consultation process for the review/update of the SRIA and Vision 2030, the EPA hosted a successful national public consultation workshop on Thursday 14th February in Dublin. It was a full day event, attended by a wide range of stakeholders. The proceedings were opened by Alice Wemaere and the event was Chaired by Padraic Larkin. Dominique Darmendrail presented an overview of the Water JPI and four Irish researchers (Principal Investigators), who are working on projects funded under Water JPI, presented a summary of their projects/findings:
- Dr Eleanor Jennings, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) – PROGNOS - Predicting In-Lake Responses to Change Using Near Real Time Models
- Professor Laurence Gill & Dr David O’Connell, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) – Eutro-SED - Eutrophication hotspots resulting from biogeochemical transformations and bioavailability of phosphorus in the fluvial suspended sediment of geologically contrasting agricultural catchments
- Dr Fiona Walsh, National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) – StARE - Stopping Antibiotic Resistance Evolution
Padraic Larkin provided a summary of the evolution of the SRIA up to the current version (i.e. SRIA 2.0) and the rationale for the need for the current review/update of SRIA 3.0 and Vision2030. This was followed by a series of facilitated breakout discussion groups. During the facilitated breakout groups the attendees discussed a series of questions to help identify the future EU water Research priorities & challenges (i.e. SRIA 3.0) and new Vision 2030. Also, they discussed the role of Research Infrastructure and identified gaps and barriers to access. The latter feeds into the work by the RI Taskforce on Research Infrastructure that is being led by JUELICH (Germany).