Water4All webinar:
“Addressing EU Water Directive governance gaps: Solutions for Stakeholders’ involvement and Cross-sectoral cooperation”
Sub-task C1.2 "Policy Support Working Group"
What is the Water4All Partnership?
Co-funded by the European Union within the frame of the Horizon Europe programme, it aims at enabling water security for all in 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.
Within this partnership, Pillar C is designed for addressing the challenges and developing solutions for better uptake of innovative approaches and tools in policy making processes, and task C.1 for strengthening the science – policy – governance interface.
In this context, the Policy Support Working Group (subtask C1.2) is working to identify research and innovation needs in support of implementing selected water policies and legislations.
The overarching aims of the policy support working group are to:
-Clarify the short/medium/long term policy expectations, and by doing so providing the research communities the insight they need to steer their RDI activities towards the policy needs.
-Identify and introduce recent innovations and applications that can already be of use for particular policy areas.
-Pinpoint the policy/legislation targets that the identified recent technologies can address.
First steps: After a series of consultation activities (workshops, surveys, AB consultation) the working group selected the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and the Drinking Water Directive as a triple pack to conduct its activities, which includes the delivery of a policy and technical gap analysis report (July 2024 - “Gaps report”) and guidelines on available solutions and implementation strategies by July 2025 (ongoing work).
Aim of this webinar: Presenting and discussing potential solutions to some gaps to the implementation of these 3 selected EU water related directives, and focuses especially on solutions to the governance gaps related to Capacity building, knowledge transfer, Communication awareness and Stakeholders involvement.
WHY ATTENDING THIS WEBINAR: Should you also face governance gaps, have any question or elements to share, join us to discuss solutions and implementation strategies.
This webinar will be followed by a physical W4A workshop during the EURO-INBO conference in Parma, Italy, from 19th to 22th May 2025, which will deepen the discussions and experience sharing on the topic.
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