This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 869283. WIDER UPTAKE aims at facilitating industrial symbiosis as a mean to increase resource efficiency, limit emissions and develop sustainable business based on water-smart solutions.
- Starting date: May 1st 2020
- Project duration: 48 months
- EU Contribution: EUR 11,606,479
- Number of partners: 18
- Coordinator: SINTEF AS, Herman Helness, herman.helness@sintef.no
- Call: CE-SC5-04-2019 — Building a water-smart economy and society (Innovation action)
- Grant agreement number: 869283
The collection includes research publications and data funded by H2020 Project WIDER UPTAKE.
WIDER UPTAKE aims to facilitate industrial symbiosis to increase resource efficiency, limit emissions and develop sustainable business based on water-smart solutions.
WIDER UPTAKE's hypothesis is that the barriers for wider uptake of water-smart solutions are not only technological but also of organizational, regulatory, social and economic character.
WIDER UPTAKE will identify and demonstrate common measures for wider uptake through activities on:
- 'Monitoring and control of health and quality risks'
- 'Circular-economy and efficiency potential'
- 'Governance and business models for industrial symbiosis'
- 'Measuring water smartness and progress towards SDG'.
WIDER UPTAKE includes demonstrations:
- Wastewater reuse for agriculture and urban greening
- Phosphorus recycling, biogas and biochar utilisation
- Production of biocomposites for manufacturing materials with resources recovered from the whole water cycle.
WIDER UPTAKE will co-develop a roadmap for implementation of water-smart solutions that is made available in an open access Virtual Learning and Sharing Centre.
PARTNERS
11 water utilities and industries: WATNL, Hias IKS, HIAS How2O AS, PVS, AMAP S.p.A., Storm Aqua, SSGL, NPSP BV, IVAR, HØST, Sirkula IKS
7 research institutes or universities: SINTEF, NTNU, TU Delft, CVUT, VSCHT, UNIPA, CSIR-GH
5 countries: Norway, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Italy, Ghana
Visit WIDER UPTAKE Project website: https://www.wider-uptake.eu