Since the beginning of the process, which started in January 2023, DESAL+ Living Lab has demonstrated very high maturity levels in all key aspects defining a WOLL, addressing a challenge of great interest in our times: water desalination.
Water is essential for all life forms on Earth and is fundamental to our daily activities, making it crucial to enhance our understanding and management of this vital resource through scientific research and international cooperation.
The goal of Water4All is to ensure water security on a large scale and long-term, addressing challenges comprehensively.
The Water4All Partnership is structured around six pillars of action covering the entire research and innovation chain. As such, Water4All partners (90 partners from 33 different countries) contribute to a wide range of activities, ranging from defining thematic strategic orientations to joint calls for research and innovation, knowledge transfer, and communication and awareness-raising in Europe and beyond.
The objective of Pillar D “Demonstrating Solution Efficiency” is to ensure water security for all in the long term and promote transformative and systemic changes. To achieve this, it supports and promotes the demonstration and market uptake of innovative solutions across the entire water research and innovation chain. The strategy to achieve this objective is based on the Water-Oriented Living Lab (WOLL) concept, of which we are proud to be a part of from DESAL+ Living Lab and contribute to water security worldwide.
The full Water-Oriented Living Lab (WOLL) Atlas can be found at this link.
DESAL+ Living Lab was established in 2017 with the firm objective of addressing water scarcity challenges in its geographical environment through innovation in sustainable water desalination solutions based on: advanced maintenance; automation, big data processing, and application of artificial intelligence; pretreatment; membranes; water-energy nexus of desalinated water; desalinated water quality; circular economy and brine management; green chemistry; and emerging desalination technologies.
Water4All – Water Security for the Planet – is a program co-financed by the European Union under the Horizon Europe program.
More information at: https://www.water4all-partnership.eu/
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