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Call for proposals: ICT-2013.6.3 - ICT for water resources management (FP7-ICT-2013-11)
ICT offers an untapped potential to improve the management of water resources by integrating real-time knowledge about water consumption at domestic, corporate and city level, and by enabling subsequently the implementation of efficient resource and demand management strategies and pricing schemes. This objective brings together the ICT and water stakeholders in joint research, in order to document the ICT potential via lessons learned from real-life testing and demonstration experiments.
Targeted outcomes:
The aim is to pilot and demonstrate innovative ICT systems and services for efficient water use and reuse, in order to improve household, business and societal awareness, to induce changes in consumer behavior and to enable the introduction of innovative resource and demand management schemes and adaptive pricing incentives.
Key research challenges to be addressed include:
a) Providing quantifiable evidence of the potential of ICT to contribute to efficient water resources management by increasing household, business and industry awareness regarding water use, triggering the adoption of new demand management and pricing schemes, and contributing to meeting EU resource efficiency targets in a digital society.
b) Validating ICT-enabled innovations in real-life operational settings with the active involvement of stakeholders and end users from the water and the ICT domain; demonstrating in public the ICT potential for efficient water use, assessing its impact at domestic, corporate or municipality level, and exploring possible business case scenarios.
Projects should cover: (i) new ICT research and/or innovative integration of ICT-enabled solutions for water resources management at domestic, public/private building industry and/or city level, (ii) substantial validation of the proposed ICT solutions in at least two real-life operational environments, over a sufficient period of time to cover seasonal variations, and with the involvement of real users from the responsible water operators, households and the ICT industry, (iii) assessment of impact of the proposed solutions and preparation of a business case including open access options and possible take-up activities, and iv) a final dissemination event, including a public demonstration and a "hands-on" training of targeted users.
Consortia must be compact with partners each making substantial contributions. In particular, the stakeholders from water authorities/operators and from the ICT industry should have key roles in the validation and business scenario stages.
Expected impact:
• Increased user awareness and modified behaviours concerning the use of water;
• Quantifiable and significant reduction of water consumption;
• Peak-period reduction of water and energy distribution loads;
• Improved resource efficiency and business operations of water utilities due to ICT;
• Increased rate of ICT-innovation in water management companies;
• Number of publications jointly authored by researchers from ICT and the water domain.
Funding schemes: STREPs
Indicative budget distribution: STREP EUR 14 million
Call: FP7-ICT-2013-11
Date of publication: 18 September 2012
Deadline: 16 April 2013, at 17:00.00 Brussels local time
Indicative budget: EUR 236.5 million
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| News type | Procurement |
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http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ictpd12/item-display.cfm?id=8424 |
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| Source of information | EC DG Research & Innovation |
| Keyword(s) | EU-INCO-MED, FP7, ICT, water resources management |
| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY |
| Relation | http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ |
| Geographical coverage | n/a |
| News date | 28/02/2013 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
