1. 23/09/2014 Workshop Financing Innovation in the Water Cycle Dr Mike Farrimond Scientific Advisor to Acqueau

2. 23/09/2014 SUMMARY INTRODUCTION ACQUEAU & Water market and challenges, Miguel Carrinho, Águas do Ribatejo & ACQUEAU Board member PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSIONS SWARM- Smart WAter Ressource active Management, Cyrille Lemoine, Véolia Environnement DUTS - Development of an Ultra-low-energy, wireless and low- cost Telecontrol System, Mike Farrimond, ACQUEAU TRIUMPH - Treating Urban Micropollutants and Pharmaceuticals in Wastewaters, Sylvie Baig, Suez Environnement CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES, Brian Mergelas, WaterTap & member of ACQUEAU SCientific Committee CONCLUSION Winning the ACQUEAU Label and closing remarks Mike Farrimond, ACQUEAU

3. 23/09/2014 W ho we are Intergovernmental organisation for market-driven industrial R&D www. eurekanetwork.com First cluster dedicated to financing water innovations www.acqueau.eu

4. 23/09/2014 Clusters are……strategic initiatives proposed and led by industry, developing generic technologies of key importance for European competitiveness. Clusters facilitate R&D and innovation projects on the basis of a broad industrial participation spanning large industry and SMEs as well as research institutions and other public or private organisation.

5. 23/09/2014 Clusters are……strategic initiatives proposed and led by industry, developing generic technologies of key importance for European competitiveness. Clusters facilitate R&D and innovation projects on the basis of a broad industrial participation spanning large industry and SMEs as well as research institutions and other public or private organisation.

6. 23/09/2014 O ur vision and road map

7. 23/09/2014 Technology Areas 9 Water Components Water Resources Water Treatment Water Distribution Customer Agriculture Industry Urban Drainage Wastewater Treatment Biosolid Technology Needs 5 Major Programmes Membrane Technology Real Time System Management Low Energy Wastewater Treatment Materials to Pipe and Coating Low Energy Process for Disinfection and Oxidation

8. 23/09/2014 9 Technology areas Water resources MIWARE - Mine water as a resource Water treatment LEMEDIS - Low Energy MEmbrane DIStillation FREENOM - Al/Fe free coagulant for drinking water production NEDWA- Nanoparticles Detection in drinking Water treatment Water distribution OPRISMA - Open Platform for Real tIme Systems Management DUTS - Development of an Ultra-low-energy and low-cost Telecontrol System WIN4SMART - Low-power and cost-effective communication infrastructure SWARM -Real time monitoring of water resources

9. 23/09/2014 9 Technology areas Customer TRONE - Intelligent Toilets for the reduction of water consumption Agriculture LEMEDIS - Low Energy MEmbrane DIStillation Industry

10. 23/09/2014 9 Technology areas Urban Drainage & waterwaste collection SOLEDES - UV-LED and solar disinfection of wastewater TRIUMPH - Urban Micropollutants and Pharmaceuticals in wastewaters SWIM - Small-scale wastewater treatment system ASSIST - Development of a smart control system for antiscalant dosing in reverse osmosis systems Wastewater treatment Biosolid

11. 23/09/2014 H ow does it work?

12. 23/09/2014 NATIONAL FUNDING Labelled projects Project Outline (<10 pages) Scientific Committee evaluation Full Project Proposals (<30 pages) Scientific Committee evaluation Board approval LABEL Project Idea Consortiu m build- up Call Launch & Workshop Coordination with national authorities and evaluation process 4 th September 2014

13. 23/09/2014 SCOPE Any market oriented project idea in the context of the ACQUEAU Blue Book CONSORTIUM At least 2 organisations from 2 participating countries CONTRIBUTION Any organisation or country must not exceed 70% of the total budget 4 th September 2014

14. 23/09/2014 4 th September 2014 Preliminary (PO): 1 October 2014 Full Proposal (FPP): 19 Nov 2014 Label award: 10 December 2014

15. 23/09/2014 W hat are the results?

16. 23/09/2014 4th September 2014

17. 23/09/2014 3 M€ Average Costs per project (€0.7 M - €6.4M) 5 Average participants per project 2 Average countries per project 3 years Average duration of the project

18. €33M of running projects*100+ Organisations15 Countries * Estimated values

19. 23/09/2014 AGENDA Fall 2014 24 October InfoDay French-Spanish collaboration in the water sector - Madrid 5 November EIP Water Conference 2014 - Barcelona 19 November EUREKA Innovation Event - Basel JOIN US!

20. 23/09/2014 rue Neerveld, 107, Brussels, B- 1200 + 32 (0) 27 770 986 www.acqueau.eu www.acqueau.eu ACQUEAU Office