Transforming research results into innovation uptakes in the water community in Europe and beyond

From 11.09 to 15.09.2022, the IWA organized in Copenhagen the World Water Congress & Exhibition. 

The European Water Association has contributed with a Workshop on “Transforming research results into innovation uptakes in the water community in Europe and beyond”.

To achieve the challenging goals of the water sector, our research community is carrying out intensive and comprehensive R&D. However, our task is not complete until these innovations are implemented in practice. Notably, the water sector is quite slow on innovation uptakes compared with most other sectors. The objective of this workshop is to (a) identify the bottlenecks in the innovation uptake process, (b) share experience on tools, incentives and processes, practices and (c) develop guidelines of good practices accelerating the innovation uptake. The proposed session will elaborate on the challenges and opportunities, with convincing examples of success stories, and agree on The Way Forward. We will also discuss the importance and role of the involvement of national and international associations such as EWA and IWA for accelerating the innovation uptake.

The white paper of the conference as well as the presentations are available here.