1. Demonstration activities and links with the European Innovation Partnership and Structural Funds Call FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO "Environment (including climate change)" INFODAY for project coordinators Brussels 24/06/2013
Lieve Van Camp, Dr.
DG Research and Innovation
Unit I.2 Environmental Technologies

2. Negotiation Mandate:
• To connect the project to the relevant activities of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Water , including the Action Groups.
• To demonstrate in the ‘Description of the Work’ (work package descriptions in Part A and section 3 on Impact in Part B) how the project intends
establishing links and synergies with related major water investment/implementation projects at local, regional or national level to help leverage the demand side for the demonstrated water solutions, and
(2) strengthening complementarity with other EU funding mechanisms (e.g. EU regional funds such as the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund or the Cohesion Fund, including those to be attributed in the context of a research and innovation strategy for smart specialisation in the future programming period as of 2014).

3. EIP Innovation Union Flagship EIP Commission Communication
Strategic Implementation Plan (Task Force/Steering Group)
Operational Plan 2013
Action Groups 3

4. EIP goals and ultimate objective
European Innovation Partnerships aim to speed up innovations that contribute to solving societal challenges, enhance Europe's competitiveness and contribute to job creation and economic growth. EIPs help to pool expertise and resources by bringing together public and private actors at EU, national and regional level, combining supply- and demand-side measures.
EIP goals and ultimate objective

5. Currently 9 EIP Water Action Groups
FINNOWATER
CITY BLUEPRINTS: Improving Implementation Capacities of Cities and Regions
Smart Pricing and Drought Insurance Schemes in Mediterranean Countries
Renewable Energy Desalination (RE-Desalination)
W4EF: Framework for evaluation and reporting of the energy impacts on water
Anaerobic membrane Bioreactor for Recovery of Energy and Resources
WaterCoRe: Regional governance of water scarcity and drought issues
Industrial Water Re-use and Recycling
ESE - Ecosystem Services for Europe

6. Action Groups
55 potential action groups on reserve list
Next call: november 2013 (DG ENV)
Action group = innovative way of establishing partnerships between organisations and stakeholders along the innvation value chain (from research to market)
They address initial actions under the priority areas of the SIP

7. To Do on Action Groups Preferred options
Link up to the already selected Action Groups
Link up to Action Group on reserve list and resubmit in November
Create your own Action Group and submit in November
Minimum requirements
Include Members in Advisory Boards
Joint workshops, dissemination activities
Cooperation on exploitation of results
Exchange experiences and results/deliverables …

8. Goal = create added value and opportunities
Mutual benefit for both Action Group and FP7 project
Cooperate to create synergies and added value
Examine possibilities to take the DEMO project a step closer to the market
Enlarge networking
Share experiences and results
Explore complementarities
Leverage the demand side …
The agreement or common actions must be clearly reflected in the DoW

9. Synergies with major water projects and with EU Structural Funds
Include in WP dissimination/exploitation/commercialisation a Task on each of the 2 sub-issues of the negotiation mandate:
Explore and look at all existing and possible resources (including from SF) and reflect this in a "resource mobilisation strategy" for the follow-up of the DEMO phase towards commercialisation
Examine the Regional RIS3 (Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation) which are an ex-ante conditionality for funding under the European Regional Fund (Theme 1) and ensure follow-up
Commit to meet with the Regional Authorities in charge of the Structural Funds early in the process for the programmes
RIS
The agreement or common actions must be clearly reflected in the DoW

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