Cross-KIC Water Scarcity Activities

EIT Climate-KIC has idenfied - with EIT Food, Raw Materials and Manufacturing - water scarcity as a fundamental topic to work together for the whole southern region development but still being weakly integrated in the current acvies, establishing a clear opportunity for collaboraon. Through this project, the 4 KICs aim to find innovative solutions to prevent and mitigate water scarcity and drought, as well as the over usage of water, as to move towards a water-efficient and water-saving economy, focusing on raising awareness, learning to save water, and managing the available resources more efficiently. Outreach will cover all Southern European countries, the acvies proposed will be focused and delivered across 3 RIS countries (Italy, Greece and Spain). Leveraging on best practices, ensuring efficiency and knowledge sharing, new synergies and opportunities will be established and integrate the system approach to be applied to water scarcity.

 

The main overall objective of EU water policy is ensuring access to good quality water, sufficient quantity for all Europeans, and ensuring the good status of all water bodies across Europe. Good-quality water supply is a prerequisite for economic and social progress, especially in RIS regions targeted, which are at the same me some of the main affected ones. As for that, water scarcity has been idenfied as a common issue to tackle for the four participating KICS, being a fundamental topic for the whole southern region development but still being weakly integrated in the current activies, establishing a clear opportunity for collaboraon. This Cross-KIC RIS project, lead by EIT Food, and involving Climate-KIC, EIT Manufacturing and Raw Materials will enable the involved KICs to work together and with external relevant actors across RIS countries to build a stronger framework to tackle water scarcity in innovation, education and policy in Southern Europe region.