The European Innovation Partnership on Water (EIP Water) welcomes 16 new Action Groups including ‘Energy & Water Works’ (EWW) with Energising deltas as a participating Dutch project.

The main goal of the EIP-Water Action Group ‘Energy & Water Works – Energizing sustainable deltas (EWW Action Group) is to enhance European interest in the innovative crossovers between energy and water in the development of policy, markets and knowledge, and to further the relevant industrial policies. To achieve that goal the Action Group EWW will organise several international conferences and workshops at which the knowledge and experience of the EWW projects will be shared and at which the EWW Action Group partners will address common innovation bottlenecks and barriers, the issues relating to the governance of innovation. These issues are features of, and come to light in, all phases of the innovation cycle (research & development, market, exports). Each issue comprises problems common to the participating projects and parties since the EWW Action Group contributes to the end goals of the Water EIP, namely: smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. By addressing these issues, the action group will serve an umbrella function, overarching the EWW projects that participate.

Partners
Partners of the Action Group EWW are:

• France Energies Marines (F),
• WavEC (P),
• Deltares (NL),
• Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL),
• Provincie Noord-Holland (NL),
• Provincie Zeeland (NL),
• Provincie Zuid-Holland (NL)
• Orkney Islands County Council (UK),
• Rabobank the Netherlands (NL),
• Tidal Testing Centre – TTC (NL),
• European Marine Energy Centre – EMEC (UK),
• Antea Group (NL),
• Redstack BV (NL),
• Arcadis International (NL),
• IT Power group (UK),
• Institute for Infrastructure, Environment and Innovation (B).

The 16 new EIP Water Action Groups have been selected out of a total of 38 submissions. It is a strong group of new, demand-driven Action Groups that share the common objective to deliver concrete results and real impact, by jointly developing water innovations  that will be applied by identified users, seize market opportunities, create jobs, help shape European innovation policy  and support the implementation of European water policy.

The newly-selected Action Groups bring the number of Action Groups to a total of 25 that work at the core of EIP Water. In addition, 11 projects funded by the European 7th Framework Program (FP7) with a total of 50 Million Euro funding are working within the framework of the eight EIP Water priority areas. Together, the Action Groups and FP7 project are at the forefront of delivering on the EIP Water objective: to jointly develop demand-driven, applicable innovative solutions that address and tackle European and global water challenges, seize economic opportunities and support the implementation of European water policy.

About EIP Water
The European Innovation Partnership on Water (EIP Water) is an initiative within the EU 2020 Innovation Union. The EIP Water facilitates the development of innovative solutions to address major European and global water challenges. At the same time, the EIP Water supports the creation of market opportunities for these innovations, both inside and outside of Europe. It aims to remove barriers by advancing and leveraging existing solutions. Its implementation has started in May 2013 with the main objective to initiate and promote collaborative processes for change and innovation in the water sector across the public and private sector, non-governmental organisations and the general public. This is mainly done via the establishment of Action Groups and other Working Groups.