Digital Water City (DWC)

Leading urban water management into its digital future.

Project information

Horizon2020 project

Work areas

Water infrastructures
Drainage and water treatment
New technologies

In collaboration with

KWB, Arctik, Biofos, BWB, CAP, DHI, Ecologic, Fluidion, ICRA, Iotsens, IPEK, INRAE, ISS, Kando, P4UW, SIAAP, Sintef, Strane, SU, SV, UNIMI, UNIVPM, Vragments.

Status

Finished in November 2022

Problem definition

The European Union invests €45,000,000 each year in sanitation and water and sewerage treatment, with the aim of improving health protection, performance and public participation.

To modernise the overall infrastructure and tackle climate change this figure must double over the next decade. And digital technologies, in particular, are the key enablers to achieve this modernisation.

Solution

Developing advanced and innovative digital solutions through a participatory approach The Digital Water City (DWC) project.

Services

Facilitation of DWC communities of practice: local (city-wide) / “Intra-Project” / “Trans-Project”.

Network coordination to support the engagement of researchers and non-researchers and the co-development of digital solutions that help overcome the barrier between innovation and practice, taking into account user requirements and needs.

Establishment of peer-to-peer dialogues between water managers, innovators and other actors in the innovation chain, supporting the testing and/or demonstration of digital solutions in practical contexts.

Problem definition

The European Union invests €45,000,000 each year in sanitation and water and sewerage treatment, with the aim of improving health protection, performance and public participation.

To modernise the overall infrastructure and tackle climate change this figure must double over the next decade. And digital technologies, in particular, are the key enablers to achieve this modernisation.

Solution

Developing advanced and innovative digital solutions through a participatory approach The Digital Water City (DWC) project.

Services

Facilitation of DWC communities of practice: local (city-wide) / “Intra-Project” / “Trans-Project”.

Network coordination to support the engagement of researchers and non-researchers and the co-development of digital solutions that help overcome the barrier between innovation and practice, taking into account user requirements and needs.

Establishment of peer-to-peer dialogues between water managers, innovators and other actors in the innovation chain, supporting the testing and/or demonstration of digital solutions in practical contexts.

Project information

Horizon2020 project

Work areas

Water infrastructures
Drainage and water treatment
New technologies

In collaboration with

KWB, Arctik, Biofos, BWB, CAP, DHI, Ecologic, Fluidion, ICRA, Iotsens, IPEK, INRAE, ISS, Kando, P4UW, SIAAP, Sintef, Strane, SU, SV, UNIMI, UNIVPM, Vragments.

Status

Finished in November 2022

Concrete measures

Digital-water.city (DWC) develops and demonstrates 15 advanced digital solutions.

These solutions cover the full range of innovative digital technologies, such asaugmented reality, mobile technology, cloud computing, sensors, real-time monitoring, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, modelling and open source software.

The project was developed in five cities: Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Sofia and Berlin.

To carry out the project and bring together the different public, private and academic actors, Communities of Practice, composed of different actors and decision-makers, have been set up, facilitated by ICATALIST.

The CoP scheme within DWC has 3 levels: (i) local level (city level); ii) intra-project level (mutual learning and knowledge exchange between city actors) and (iii) (3) trans-project level.

This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 820954.

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