The overall approach of InnWater is embedded in the social innovation approach that considers the (1) technological, (2) governance, (3) capacity development, and (4) economic dimensions of innovative solutions. By considering these four approaches, InnWater aims to give stakeholders a clear role to co-develop and customise governance solutions that they can independently apply.
This will lead to the replication of InnWater solutions and the identification of the policy and regulatory recommendations at the local, European, and international levels. The methodology provides tailored, innovative, and cross sectoral governance tools that will be tested and co-developed over five pilot sites.
The sites are from five different countries and will implement different types of governance mechanisms and cover different water challenges:
At the heart of the project are the pilot sites and the communities surrounding them. Here, the partners will test and develop the innovations for water governance, by considering the criteria presented in the proposal, such as the quintuple helix and citizen (trust) engagement framework, WEFE Nexus economic and resources allocation simulation, which includes both household water tariff and environmental costs.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon EUROPE research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 101086512.
In addition, this work was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number 10066637].
