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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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