1 JPI Water Partnership Towards Joint Programming in Research Water Challenges for a Changing World

2 Demand for water grows faster than growth of world population 1/3 of the world population will not have access to clean drinking water With the best practical means of today there is an investment required of about €150 billion to provide the world of clean water More than 80% of the world population has not any form of proper sanitation Only 10% of the waste water is treated before it is drained to surface water Water is facing challenges as never before JPI Water Partneship

3 The Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. The representative of the Basque Country (supported through a phone call) The Cyprus Institute (CyI), The Energy, Environment and Water Research Centre (Letter of support) The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affaires The Academy of Finland Foundation Madri+d The permanent Representative of Hungary to the European Union The Italian Center of Ispra. The Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation The European Technological Platform for Water Supply and Sanitation JPI Water Partnership 12 JANUARY 2010: Stake holder meeting

4 Revision of existing draft using JPI (EC) template A core group for preparing the new draft proposal, (Austria, Italy, The Netherlands, Romania and Spain). The editing of the proposal is based on the existing proposal, the comments of the European Commission and the SRA of the WSSTP To focus the proposal on the challenges in the following areas: Drinking water, process water, waste water, interactions with natural systems and non technological issues such as social, political and economical issues. JPI Water Partnership Results Stake holder meeting I

5 Important will be to identify gaps in the partners research programs Negociate with ERA-NET Water in order to reach an agreement and to incorporate ERA-NET partners in gobernance structure If no agreement were reached, in order to avoid overlapings, remove everything related to Water Basins Management JPI Water Partnership Results Stake holder meeting II

6 JPI Water Partnership Strengthening European Initiatives To use the scarce R&D resources and managing available funds in the more efficient and effective way. To move common challenges in the direction of common research agendas (WSSTP, EWP) More coherence in the European research and development in water technology is needed Create an European level playing field. Setting clear and realistic targets and deliverables to achieve major breakthrough. *Achieving tangible societal impact

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