| projects-511 |
687809 |
POWER |
Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges |
H2020 |
H2020-LOW-CARBON-CIRCULAR-INDUSTRIES-2020 |
H2020-ICT-2015 |
2015-12-01 |
2019-11-30 |
Completed |
€ 000 575 000.00 |
The European Green Deal, an ambitious growth strategy aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), calls for the mobilization of the industry. Indeed, while important steps have been taken in the past, the annual global extraction of materials tripled in the last 50 years and is expected to increase further. The dual transformation, green and digital, place special emphasis on resource and energy intensive sectors. Furthermore, the expected zero pollution action plan for air, water and soil will enforce this transformation. In this changing environment, industry will have to adapt swiftly and decisively but the ease and smoothness of this transition is up for debate. Solutions that increase costs and impede productivity will face substantial resistance. There is a pressing need for new technologies and approaches that complement economic growth and productivity while firstly addressing environmental challenges. iWAYS is a step in this direction, featuring a wide array of technologies that are non-disruptive and applicable in any industry with wastewater and gaseous emissions. While the concept of water and heat recovery have been demonstrated and widely applied, in iWAYS a unique approach is taken, focusing on until now impossible streams to address and building synergies between heat and water reclamation and exploitation. The project also addresses several issues afflicting commercial technologies (such as Reverse Osmosis and Membrane Distillation) through innovative and enabling approaches. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/687809 |
Urban water', 'Rivers and estuaries' |
| projects-512 |
644852 |
PROTEUS |
AdaPtive micROfluidic- and nano-enabled smart systems for waTEr qUality Sensing |
H2020 |
H2020-ICT-2014 |
ICT-02-2014 |
2015-02-01 |
2018-01-31 |
Completed |
€ 003 993 520.00 |
Water management requires massive, low-cost monitoring means coping with differentiated and evolving requirements. However, the majority of multifunctional water sensors only supports predefined goals hindering interoperability, with a high cost, impeding large scale deployments. Addressing this, PROTEUS aims at offering x10 reduction in both size and unit function cost compared to state of the art. To this end, an increased number of functions will be integrated at a reduced cost and PROTEUS will deliver a reconfigurable microfluidic-and nano-enabled sensor platform for cognitive water quality monitoring. Innovative embedded software will provide reconfigurability of the sensing board to support several differentiated applicative goals while cognitive capabilities will manage evolving requirements during exploitation. Energy autonomy will be made by harvesting water flow energy. In addition, low cost of additional sensing components will enable redundancy increasing life span of the systems.The main challenge relates to the heterogeneous integration into a monolithic, microfluidic sensing chip of carbon-nanotubes-based resistive chemical sensors, of MEMS physical and rheological resistive sensors and of a multifunctional adaptive deep-submicron CMOS system on chip. Upstream, high level system design addressing industrial use cases, manufacturability and cost-effectiveness, packaging, energy budget and interfaces between building blocks, will enable consistency and efficiency of the whole approach. Downstream, system validation will be carried out at different levels: benchmarking, reliability assessment to guarantee service time, model deployments and field testing.The consortium brings together renowned actors along the whole value chain, including system integration and end users. This will contribute to post-project exploitation prepared by ensuring appropriate inclusion of business requirements within the system design. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/644852 |
Urban water' |
| projects-513 |
641821 |
WATERINNEU |
Applying European market leadership to river basin networks and spreading of innovation on water ICT models, tools and data |
H2020 |
H2020-WATER-2014-2015 |
WATER-4a-2014 |
2015-03-01 |
2017-02-28 |
Completed |
€ 000 914 991.04 |
WaterInnEU’s primary vision is to create a marketplace to enhance the exploitation of EU funded ICT models, tools, protocols and policy briefs related to water and to establish suitable conditions for new market opportunities based on these offerings. WaterInnEU will build upon existing knowledge bases and platforms developed in previous projects but will provide new concepts, connections, and components that are essential for a marketplace to work.The primary goals can be detailed in five major objectives:a) Gather the outcomes of previous European funded projects, and contribute to their dissemination and exploitation to be used as an instrument for supporting the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). b) Assess the level of standardization and interoperability of these outcomes as a mechanism to integrate ICT-based tools, and incorporate open data platforms and generate a palette of interchangeable components that are able to use the water data emerging from the data sharing processes and data models stimulated by initiatives such as the INSPIRE directive.c) Create the marketplace as a service: a forum formed by water research projects representatives, stakeholders in the water domain, and companies (in particular SMEs), who are capable of moving current products into the market and offer them to, for example, river basin managers, at different levels. The user segment will mainly benefit from the capability of the water partnerships (e.g. the Global Water Partnership), in bringing together a wide variety of water sector stakeholders and practitioners such as decision makers, public and private users, local, regional and international entities, multidisciplinary stakeholders.d) Build an open virtual marketplace that includes the Water Knowledge Portal of projects and research (WISE-RTD), a user feedback facility and a success stories portfolio, additionally to the current tools and policies lists. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/641821 |
Rivers and estuaries', 'Water reservoir', 'Lake' |
| projects-514 |
318603 |
WatERP |
Water Enhanced Resource Planning "Where water supply meets demand" |
FP7 |
No data |
FP7-ICT-2011-8 |
2023-10-01 |
2015-09-30 |
Completed |
€ 004 459 807.00 |
Water supply involves many actors. While many management tools exist, they cannot intercommunicate and no framework is available for integrating all of them, preventing integrated water resources management to be fully achieved. WatERP will develop a web-based Open Management Platform (OMP), integrating intelligent systems through open interfaces, to enable water supply distribution chains to be managed in a unified and customized way. The OMP will provide inferred information on water supplies, flows, consumption, distribution efficiency, and supply and demand within a single framework. It comprises 3 tools: (a) Data Warehouse, using semantics and common language, (b) DSS, for coordinating actions, prioritizing water uses, improving distribution efficiency, and saving water, energy and costs, and (c) Demand Management, supporting socio-economical analyses and policies. Open standards will be used to maximize interoperability and data sharing. WatERP technologies will be developed under a user-centred participatory design.9 Partners (ES, DE, GR and UK, with a large SME component, a water authority, a water utility and a big water sector companies association) will validate the project outcomes in 2 different pilots: (1) Ter-Llobregat water supply system (ES) representing water-stressed parts of Europe and (2) Karlsruhe water supply system (DE) representing more water-rich regions. WatERP enables improved matching of water supply and demand from a holistic point of view, pursuing 2 objectives: (i) improving coordination among actors and (ii) fostering behavioural change to reduce water (8%) and energy (5%) consumption. By enabling a more dynamic and agile interaction among the different actors involved in water supply distribution, the platform improves water governance while maintaining the autonomy and independence of the actors. WatERP will also develop a strong dissemination capability, besides an evaluation of their anticipated cost and benefits and market prospects. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/318603 |
Urban water' |
| projects-515 |
101073952 |
PERIVALLON |
Protecting the EuRopean terrItory from organised enVironmentAl crime through inteLLigent threat detectiON tools |
EU Horizon 2020 |
HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01 |
HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01-09 - Fight against organised environmental crime |
2022-12-01 |
2025-11-30 |
On going |
€ 005 379 572.50 |
PERIVALLON aims to provide an improved and comprehensive intelligence picture of organised environmental crime and develop effective and efficient tools and solutions for detecting and preventing such types of criminal activities and for assessing their environmental impact based on geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, scanning, online monitoring, analysis, correlation, risk assessment, and predictive analytics technologies, by leveraging the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the fields of computer vision and multimodal analytics. As a result, enhanced investigation processes and methodologies will be derived through the capabilities provided by the developed tools and solutions, and the insights obtained though the proposed Environmental Crime Observatory. The capacity of end users (including Police Authorities and Border Guards) will also be improved and will enable them to tackle such criminal activities in an effective manner based on advanced tools and solutions and also on the innovative training curricula developed using physical and/or digital twins of relevant environmental crime scenarios. Moreover, improved international cooperation will be facilitated through improved data sharing enabled by blockchain technologies, while improved regulation shaping and tuning will be supported through relevant policy recommendations. PERIVALLON will be validated in field tests and demonstrations in four operational use cases. Extensive training, hands-on experience, joint exercises, and training material will boost the uptake of PERIVALLON tools and technologies. With a Consortium 5 Police and Border Guard Authorities, 3 authorities related to environmental protection, 6 Research/Academic institutions, 8 industry partners (including seven SMEs), one EU Agency, and one Foundation, PERIVALLON delivers a strong representation of the challenges, requirements and tools to meet its objectives. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101073952 |
Coastal waters', 'River and estuaries', 'Lake', 'Water reservoir', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-516 |
101061623 |
HYDROCOUPLE |
A Coupled Finite Element Framework for Multi-Physics Environmental Flows |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 |
HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 |
2022-09-01 |
2024-08-31 |
Completed |
No data |
HYDROCOUPLE proposes to develop (1) a new coupled finite element (FE) method for environmental flows, (2) goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement strategies, and (3) to apply the new techniques to physical watersheds for verification of its capabilities as well as to demonstrate these. The project is a collaboration between three researchers, the applicant Eirik Valseth (currently at The University of Texas at Austin), Prof. Kent-Andre Mardal (The University of Oslo) and Prof. Ethan Kubatko (The Ohio State University). Many current approximation techniques for multiphysics phenomena, where two or more models (partial differential equations) govern the physics, focuses on the approximation of these as separate phenomena and prescribe appropriate interface conditions to exchange information between the models. Recent attention has been given to monolithically coupled methods (Kuchta et al. 2021), where all models are approximated simultaneously thanks to careful algorithm design and numerical analysis. HYDROCOUPLE will extend the theory of these monolithic coupling schemes to environmental flow problems and develop a FE framework for their corresponding numerical approximation. This developed framework can subsequently be applied in flood prediction and hydropower production planning as the models in environmental flows govern both overland and riverine flows which are critical in both applications. HYDROCOUPLE will also develop mesh-adaptive refinement techniques based on goal-oriented error estimation to ensure the high fidelity of its numerical approximations. Finally, the proposed framework will be verified against available data for existing watersheds to demonstrate its efficiency and accuracy to end users in industry and government. Working in the Section of Mechanics at the Department of Mathematics with a world renowned scientist will provide a perfect setting to integrate my knowledge and start my research career in Europe. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101061623 |
River and estuaries', 'Water reservoir', 'Lakes |
| projects-517 |
244102 |
SMARTEST |
Smart Resilience Technology, Systems and Tools |
FP7 |
No data |
ENV.2009.3.1.5.1 |
2010-01-01 |
2013-06-30 |
Completed |
€ 004 562 218.94 |
The programme, involving leading European organisations, will develop innovative smart technology, systems and implementation tools. The project is set out into six main work packages: WP1 – Management: controlling the operation, scientific excellence and finance of the consortium. WP2 – FRe technology: developing innovative and smart technology and products, based on extending current products and introducing smart systems that rely less on manual intervention. The emphasis is on cost effective solutions. The WP will develop guidance and standards for FRe technology that could be adopted by standards organisations as harmonised standards. WP3 – FRe systems: developing the concept of flood resilient systems in the urban environment through the use of case studies in seven partner countries. FRe systems are the combination of FRe technology and the urban environment within which they sit. The FRe systems can range from individual building and infrastructure level to whole cities. WP4 – FRe implementation: considering how to implement FRe technology and systems in practice. It will consider appropriate tools and develop a decision support system. WP5 – Integration: bringing together the theory and practical research in WP2 – WP4, the intention is to demonstrate how FRe technology, systems and implementation can work in practice. The involvement of relevant stakeholders through national support groups will be essential. WP6 – Dissemination: a range of dissemination activities are planned within the project. A project web site will host an information platform. National and international conferences will disseminate the research results and create impact amongst stakeholders. A manual of FRe technology, systems and implementation tools will be produced. The project partners have already cooperated for more than three years in COST Action C22 – Urban Flood Management and are therefore well placed to successfully undertake this project. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/244102 |
River and estuaries' |
| projects-518 |
776019 |
EOPEN |
EOPEN: opEn interOperable Platform for unified access and analysis of Earth observatioN data |
H2020 |
H2020-EO-2017 |
EO-2-2017 |
2017-11-01 |
2020-10-31 |
Completed |
€ 002 182 375.00 |
Earth Observation data access through the Copernicus data distributor systems has paved the way to monitor changes on Earth, using Sentinel data. One of the main objectives of EOPEN is to fuse Sentinel data with multiple, heterogeneous and big data sources, to improve the monitoring capabilities of the future EO downstream sector. Additionally, the involvement of mature ICT solutions in the Earth Observation sector shall address major challenges in effectively handling and disseminating Copernicus-related information to the wider user community, beyond the EU borders. To achieve the aforementioned goals, EOPEN will fuse Copernicus big data content with other observations from non-EO data, such as weather, environmental and social media information, aiming at interactive, real-time and user-friendly visualisations and decisions from early warning notifications. The fusion is also done at the semantic level, to provide reasoning mechanisms and interoperable solutions, through the semantic linking of information. Processing of large streams of data is based on open-source and scalable algorithms in change detection, event detection, data clustering, which are built on High Performance Computing infrastructures. Alongside this enhanced data fusion, a new innovative, overarching Joint Decision & Information Governance architecture will be combined with the technical solution to assist decision making and visual analytics in EOPEN. Apart from EO product-oriented data management activities, EOPEN also exploits user-oriented feedback, tagging, tracking of interactions with other EOPEN users. EOPEN will be demonstrated in real use case scenarios in flood risk monitoring, food security and climate change monitoring. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/776019 |
Coastal waters', 'River and estuaries', 'Lake', 'Water reservoir', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-519 |
248767 |
UrbanFlood |
UrbanFlood |
FP7 |
No data |
ICT-2009.6.4 |
2009-12-01 |
2012-11-30 |
Completed |
€ 004 082 980.00 |
More than two thirds of European cities are regularly confronted with climate change induced disasters. Early Warning Systems (EWS) play a crucial role in mitigating the effects of such disasters by detecting conditions which forecast the onset of a catastrophe and to compute its impact. EWSs provide alarming, decision support and information services to governments, companies and the general public.<br/>The UrbanFlood project creates an internet based hosting platform for EWSs. The EWS platform is run as an Internet service and connects via the Internet to sensor networks, to online sources of information and other EWSs. The platform is able to host multiple EWSs, corresponding to various hazards and belonging to different organizations. Through the Internet, additional computer resources required by the EWS platform are made available on demand. Artificial intelligence technologies detect alarming conditions in the objects monitored. In an alarming situation, a decision support system, making use of computational models of the physical environmental, informs stakeholders about the developing catastrophe. The core of the EWS hosting platform is a Common Information Space (CIS). The CIS is run as an online service, supports web service technologies and connects via the internet with other CISs. The EWS is also able to process simulated (data), turning the EWS into a simulator with which disaster mitigation scenarios can be developed and personnel can be trained.<br/>UrbanFlood validates the EWS framework in the context of dike failures and ensued flooding in an urban environment. Dikes are equipped with sensor systems and the EWS service is built up from a series of dike failure and flooding specific modules, including 3D/pseudo 4D dike evolution and flood-spreading models. Soon after the start of the project dikes in major European cities will be monitored.<br/>UrbanFlood investigates to which extent it is feasible to remotely monitor dikes and floods from other countries and continents. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/248767 |
River and estuaries', 'Urban water' |
| projects-520 |
101135110 |
SEED-FD |
Strenghtening Extreme Events Detection for Flood and Drought |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01 |
HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-32 |
2024-01-01 |
2026-12-31 |
On going |
No data |
“Today, one third of the world’s people, mainly in least developed countries and small island developing states, are still not covered by early warning systems... This is unacceptable, particularly with climate impacts sure to get even worse. Early warnings and action save lives. To that end, today I announce the United Nations will spearhead new action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems within five years.”- UN Secretary-General António Guterres on World Meteorological Day 2022/03/23The ambition of the Strengthening Extreme Events Detection for Floods and Droughts (SEED-FD) project proposal is to give Europe, with the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, a leading position with this regard by breaking the current limitations of hydrological simulation accuracy and reliability and providing skillful floods and droughts forecasts available anywhere in the world, including in the global south for lower and middle-income countries, typically the most impacted by extreme hydrological events but also where the current knowledge gap in hydrological simulation and forecasting is highest.Combining state-of-the-art science with crucial advances in EO and non-EO technologies, the project's global objective is to enhance the quality and portfolio of the CEMS EWS for floods and droughts and improve the reliability of predictions all over the world. SEED-FD will target every critical part of the CEMS Hydrological Forecasting Modelling chain by applying state-of-the-art science to transform new observational information into high-quality hydrometeo extreme event forecast products. It will invest in better representing hydrological processes and parameterisation techniques of the CEMS core hydrological engine (LISFLOOD) and combine the model enhancements with innovative techniques to integrate EO and non-EO data with the near real-time hydrological processing chain for reducing hydrological forecasting errors. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135110 |
River and estuaries', 'Urban water' |
