1. Informal Meeting of EU Water Directors and EU Marine Directors
Riga, 26-27 May 2015
Pavel MISIGA, Head of Unit, DG Environment,
European Commission,
EIP Water
European Innovation
Partnership on Water
www.eip-water.eu
Boosting opportunities
Innovating water

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Objectives of the EIP Water
Initiative within the EU 2020 Innovation Union.
Headline Target: By 2020, identify, test, scale up, disseminate
and stimulate market uptake of innovative solutions for major
water related challenges
8 Priority areas: Water reuse and recycling; Water and
wastewater treatment, including recovery of resources;
Water-energy nexus; Flood and drought risk management;
Ecosystem services; Water governance; Decision support
systems and monitoring; Financing for innovation

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29 EIP Water Action Groups
Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for Recovery of Energy and Resources (AG036). The final aim will be to
offer new wastewater treatment technologies considering downstream processes in order to maximise
resource recovery including nutrient, dissolved methane and biogas from organic matter.
ARREAU - Accelerating Resource Recovery from Water Cycle (AG108). ARREAU builds on existing
cutting edge initiatives in several regions in Europe, where resources with a high added value are
produced, such as phosphorus and cellulose from wastewater and iron and calcium carbonate residuals
from drinking water. This will contribute to increasing resource efficiency and will create jobs and
market opportunities for the European industry and SMEs.
AugMent - Water Monitoring for Decision Support (AG124). AuGMeNT will: 1) Develop and test cheaper
and more accurate static and mobile sensor devices that monitor water quality and quantity within the
water cycle to generate denser monitoring networks in space and time; 2) Improve current satellite
data products on the terrestrial water cycle 3) Integrate multiple platforms to store water quality and
quantity information that have been developed in the recent years; 4) Develop methods to include
dynamic and heterogeneous data from multi-sources into models.

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CITY BLUEPRINTS - Improving Implementation Capacities of Cities and Regions (AG041)
The project team has developed a process, a method and an IT tool to provide a City Blueprint as
baseline assessment for the sustainability of Urban Water Cycle of cities and regions. The Action Group
will organize interventions at the local level to overcome barriers in the water related governance
systems that hinder the development and uptake of innovations in municipal water management.
COWAMA - Mitigation of Water Stress in Coastal Zones by Sustainable Water Management (AG111)
This project addresses in cooperation with administrations and water managers some very specific
issues of balancing demand and supply of fresh water. One of the basic ideas is to use freshwater
sources that discharge directly into the sea in carstic areas and to store this water to balance seasonal
fluctuations
CTRL+SWAN - Cloud Technologies & ReaL time monitoring + Smart WAter Network (AG126).
Ctrl+Swan Action Group will be devoted to the further development of innovative sensor systems’
technologies to be integrated and implemented in the design of an innovative approach to the water
distribution networks management.
DISSME - Demand-Driven Innovation Support for SMEs via NNWPs (AG131). The Action Group provides
business support to SMEs through the use of appropriate tools and maximises cross-national
matchmaking between SMEs through roadshows, export roundtables, brokerage events.
EBCF - European Benchmark Cooperation Foundation (AG125). EBCF is an Action Group where
influential partners join forces to boost the improvement of water- and sanitation services through
benchmarking, at first in Western and Eastern Europe, later on in a wider global approach. Boosting
resource efficiency and sustainability in water- and sanitation are key elements.

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ESE - Ecosystem Services for Europe (AG052). The Action Group aims to develop a consensual and
agreed methodology to assess the tangible and intangible benefits from natural and constructed
ecosystems in environment and monetary terms.
EWW - Energy and Water Works - energizing sustainable deltas (AG115). The main goal of the EWW-
Action Group is to enhance European interest in innovative crossovers between energy and water in the
development of policy, markets and knowledge and to further the relevant industrial policies.
FinnoWater (AG013). The FINNOWATER Action Group intends to explore, develop and implement new
approaches to increase financial flows in the water (and water-related) sector, particularly by
incentivizing public innovation (Pre-Commercial Procurement PCP, and Public Procurement of Innovative
Solutions PPI) of new technologies and services as well as other innovative financial tools and
mechanisms.
InduRe - Industrial Water Re-use and Recycling (AG045). The objective of this Action Group is to
develop new methodologies for industrial water re-use and recycling and with the aid of these new
methodologies, develop and implement (local) innovative technical, social- and environmental solutions.
MAR Solutions - Managed Aquifer Recharge Strategies and Actions (AG128). Managed Aquifer Recharge
technique, or simply MAR, has become, perhaps, the best technique within the Integrated Water
Resources Management (IWRM) framework, to palliate Climate Change adverse effects.

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MEET-ME4WATER - Meeting Microbial Electrochemistry for water (AG110) MEET-ME4WATER will focus
on overcoming the barriers to scale-up and demonstration of microbial electrochemical technologies
(METs) and bring them faster to market. These technologies treat waste water and, at the same time,
produce value added products (chemicals, H2, and/or desalinate water at zero energy cost
simultaneously) whilst producing energy.
PVAIZEC - Large PV Pumping Systems for zero energy irrigation (AG103) This action group develops a
number of activities to integrate recent developments in irrigation technology at a real scale test facility
(TRL9). This leads to the first application of a zero energy consumption PV pumping systems for
productive irrigation in agriculture. After the demonstration phase market replication will be the focus of
further activities.
Renewable Energy Desalination (AG025) The Action Group will promote the use of desalination powered
by renewable energy, as an environmentally friendly and decentralised solution for sustainable water
supply.
RESEWAM-O - Remote sensing for water management optimization (AG132) RESEWAM-O EIP Water
Action Group aims to develop agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change activities using Earth
Observation Remote Sensing techniques and Water Management solutions in order to enhance socio-
economical and environmental values in water sensitive areas.
RTWQM - Real Time Water Quality Monitoring (AG100) The AG “RTWQM” addresses specifically
developments that strengthen the interaction between “sensor technologies” and “data analyses &
monitoring tools” to safeguard or improve water quality aspects

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SPADIS - Smart Prices and Drought Insurance Schemes in Mediterranean Countries (AG014) focuses on
the design and implementation of economic instruments with the best potential to induce individual
decisions regarding water use in order to contribute to the collective goals of reducing vulnerability to
water scarcity and increasing resilience to droughts risk.
Verdygo - modular & sustainable wastewater treatment (AG118) is a new standard in wastewater
treatment. An important feature of Verdygo is its industrial modular construction.
W4EF - Framework for evaluation and reporting of the energy impacts on water (AG029) The main
objective of this Action Group is to produce an adapted framework for energy companies in order to
assess their water use and water impacts.
Water Justice (AG117) The Water Justice Action Group is an international coalition of important water
justice network organizations and research institutes that will develop and apply the innovative concept
of water justice in the realm of democratic multi-scalar water governance.
WaterCoRe - Regional governance of water scarcity and drought issues (AG042) The WaterCoRe Action
Group on regional governance of water scarcity and drought issues centres around the implementation
of Regional Action Plans that are intended to improve water governance in practice.
WIRE - Water & Irrigated agriculture Resilient Europe (AG112) Climate change effects are resulting in
increasing farmers’ need to irrigate, not only in the southern and central part of Europe, but also in
Northern Europe. Therefore, sustainable adaptation strategies in new and mature markets need
innovation and well-targeted investments.

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EIP Water: phases
2012-2014: Set-up. Steering Group and Task Force to define
Strategic Implementation Plan and determine key barriers &
bottlenecks (financing, procurement, PPPs, regulation,
demonstration sites). Results: clear focus, institutional and
professional buy-in (e.g. Action Groups), dissemination
2015-2017: Focus on delivery of impacts. Action Groups
speed up and overcome barriers individually. New governance
structure. Expert Groups address barriers systematically.
Involvement of FP7 and H2020 projects. Steering Group
committed to strategic support whilst taking decisions.
2018-2020: Replication & Magnification. Governance to be
determined.

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EIP Water Marketplace
www.eip-water.eu
Currently 2000 users, 200 projects & 100 products/services
Aimed as entry-point to EU water & innovation information
Collaboration with EIP Water partners (UNESCO-IHE, OECD,
WWF) and MS (e.g. DK State of the Green, NL Water
Innovation)
Database to identify solutions for WFD implementation
challenges

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