Water4All Partnership - Water Security for the planet

The Water4All partnership aims to ensure long-term water security for all by stimulating systemic transformations and changes throughout the water research and innovation sector, but also by fostering relationships between stakeholders who face water challenges and solution providers.

The aim of Water4all is to bring together funding agencies, research organisations and networks of stakeholders from across Europe and beyond in order to concentrate financial efforts, support cooperation between research laboratories, and ensure that the results of funded projects are transferred to civil society, citizens, water managers and the business world.

Thus, in addition to the annual publication of a call for international projects, Water4all carries out its own activities, such as the establishment of ‘living labs’ so that the voice of the citizen and the user is at the centre of the innovations supported, a European incubator to support small and medium-sized enterprises that have solutions to support water management, and a data platform accessible to all.

Water4All carries out its activities with 90 partners from 33 countries in the EU and elsewhere, through 7 themes of its strategic agenda:

• water for the circular economy;
• water for ecosystems and biodiversity;
• sustainable water management;
• water and health;
• water infrastructure;
• international cooperation;
• water governance.

International cooperation is also an important aspect of Water4All, with a view to identifying collaborations with non-European countries and with major international organisations such as UNESCO and the World Bank.

IOWater is mainly involved in Pillar C (Science-Policy Interface) with end users, in particular by providing expertise and coordination with regard to strengthening the Science-Policy-Governance interface and the development of Open Science (free access to project results, connected observatories and research infrastructures).