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JPI “Water challenges for a changing world” (JPI WATER)
Scope and Objective
Strengths and weaknesses
JPI WATER deals with research in the field of water and
hydrological sciences. The availability of water in
sufficient quantities and adequate quality is indeed a
public issue of high priority and addresses a pan-European
and global environmental challenge.
The Water JPI aims to make better use of public funds
through research cooperation and RDI programming
coordination than by working separately. The Joint
Programming Initiative on water works to get
participating countries to coordinate their individual
water research agendas with a European-wide strategic
research agenda on common research questions to be
solved.
The Water JPI Implementation Plan stands in parallel to a
number of Horizon 2020 work programmes, in particular
that of Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment,
Resource Efficiency and Raw materials.
The activities of the Water JPI are varied, and joint calls
for collaborative research projects is just one of the many
activities. This is coupled by activities aimed to interface
with society, empowering RDI actors, improving the
efficiency of RDI programmes, organize strategic
knowledge exchange events, share good practice.
Weaknesses
Whereas Joint Calls are well developed and consolidated
activities with overall budget also in the range of 15-20
m€, they are still characterized by a fragmented
participation of Member States, with a number of
countries that do not participate to all the calls and often
dedicate also very limited budget (e.g., in the 2015 calls
there was a huge difference between few countries
funding in the range of 1-2 m€ and other countries
investing less than 100 k€), thus leading not to have
concrete opportunities of trans border cooperation
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EIT Food4Future Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC FOOD)
Scope and Objective
Strengths and weaknesses
A KIC in this area will focus on the food supply chain. The
objectives are to:
Ensure a climate-resilient and sustainable global
food system.
Meet increasing food demand within the
constraints of available land and declining fish
stocks, protecting the natural environment and
safeguarding human health
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology
(EIT) aims to enhance Europe’s ability to innovate, and to
transform good ideas into new products or services. The
EIT aims to achieve this by bringing together leading
players from: 1) higher education; 2) research and; 3)
business within Knowledge and Innovation Communities
(KICs).
KICs carry out a whole range of activities, covering the
entire innovation chain – including training and education
programmes, reinforcing the journey from research to the
market, innovation projects and business incubators. KICs
should react in an effective and flexible way to new
challenges and changing environments.
A KIC is a 7-15 years initial investment which enables it to
maintain a long term focus on global challenges and to
avoid short term political “hot” issues.
To have a real impact on innovation, KICs should include
all parts of the chain: education, research and business
development. KICs should involve all types of partners:
SMEs & large companies, innovation infrastructure &
venture capital providers, and entrepreneurs that can
identify opportunities to develop economic activity. Such
impact could be measured in new jobs, new companies,
increased gross profits of the food sector in comparison
with the rest of the world or increased consumer trust in
products.
The nature of a KIC is quite diverse from any other
Programme, being a Community and not a Public-Public
or Public-Private Partnership. This Community deliver
EIT’s strategies but through instruments and agendas that
are decided within the Community itself.
Therefore, an interaction between PRIMA Programme
and the future KIC Food, that will be established in 2017,
will be natural in order to mutually strengthen their
respective impacts.
Weaknesses
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EIT Climate Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC Climate)
Scope and Objective
Strengths and weaknesses
KIC Climate Specifically, the land and water theme
address:
Extreme Events: how to adapt to rising sea levels and
extreme climate events through advanced and innovative
land and water engineering
Water security: creating water security for agriculture,
industry and cities
Ecosystem services: we help to develop
innovative value chains and markets for
ecosystem services
Differently from KIC FOOD, KIC CLIMATE has bene
established in 2012. The driving principles behind EIT and
the KICs has been summarized in the table above.
Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest innovation partnership
composed
by
industries
and
research
institutes/universities that are working together to
address the challenge of climate change.
All partners bring their industry experience to the
community and are connected through a national or
regional centre.
The main focus of KIC CLIMATE is not research, but
innovation, with the goal of identifying, developing and
linking market potential with business ideas and
initiatives. The final output of the KIC is to create new
products, services and jobs in Europe with global impact
on climate change.
The second main area of interest of the KIC is the delivery
of education and training programmes that instill climate
change entrepreneurship into hundreds of students and
leading professionals.
Weaknesses
Despite the huge budget of the KIC CLIMATE, probably
due to the varied nature of the climate change challenge,
the rationale has been so far to develop a plethora of
small-to-medium scale projects and investing about half
of the budget in education and entrepreneurship, without
investing in large scale flagship research and innovation
projects.
Synergies and complementarities of PRIMA with ongoing initiatives
(including non-EU funded initiatives)
A summary of the most relevant synergies and complementarities foreseen within the PRIMA set of activities
with ongoing EU and International initiatives is provided below.
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