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Current Activities
WSSTP 4th Stakeholder Event - "Water Efficient Europe", May 17th-18th 2011 in Brussels
WssTP is the Water Supply and Sanitation Technology
Platform. WssTP was initiated by the European Commission in 2004 for
Research and Technology Development in the water industry and was
transformed into an independent legal entity under Belgian Law in 2007.
In 2013, WssTP was reconfirmed as one of the best-performing European
Technology Platforms (ETPs) in line with the new ETP2020
strategy. WssTP
strives to improve coordination and collaboration on RTD and Innovation
in the water sector; enhance the competitiveness of the EU water sector;
contribute to solving the EU’s water-related societal challenges.
WssTP is a membership-based
organisation which represents the whole value chain of water with its
members coming from
multinational corporations, universities and research institutes,
utilities (public and private), the supply chain and SMEs, and large
industrial and agricultural water users. Representatives from all these
members come together in the numerous
WssTP activities
and its working groups. As the beating heart of the platform, WssTP
currently counts
16 Working Groups of a strategic, thematic, and
technological nature.
WssTP has produced a common
vision document for the whole European water industry together with a
strategic research
agenda and many reports on specific challenges and
technologies, describing the state of the art, technological challenges,
the barriers to innovations, and making suggestions on how to address
these.
Danish Water Forum has
participated in WSSTP since its start in 2004. We keenly continue to
follow the activities of the platform and the different pilot themes.
DWF plan to follow 5 pilot themes:
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Sustainable water management inside and around large urban areas
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Sustainable water management for agriculture
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Sustainable water management for industry
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Reclamation of degraded water zones
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Pro-active and corrective management of extreme hydro-climatic events
Since 2009 the platform has platform has initiated
Task Forces on cross-cutting issues through Pilot Programmes. For more
information see the documents:
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Water and Energy - strategic vision and research needs, 2011
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Recommendations from WSSTP Water and Energy Task Force, 2011
DWF has been granted funds from the Danish Agency
for Science Technology and Innovation in order to organize a network to
facilitate the participation of Danish stakeholders in European research
programs and in WSSTP pilots.