A water resilience research and innovation strategy
127 submissions from 123 organizations told the European Commission what they think about this file. Here is what each of them said, in their own words.
The Commission lists 151 submissions on this file. Shown here: the 127 from organizations. Not shown, by design: submissions from private individuals, which we never publish, and anything filed since our last weekly refresh.
Who showed up
42 submissions from industry — companies and their trade associations — against 19 from civil society: NGOs, consumer organizations, environmental groups and trade unions. That is 2.2 industry submissions for every one from civil society.
Industry 42Civil society 19Public authorities, academia, other 66
Groupings use the respondent type each organization selected when filing. Counting submissions, not organizations — a body that filed twice is counted twice.
What the room declares
56 of 123
in the EU Register
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full-time lobbying staff
€9.1M+
declared costs a year
133
EP accreditations declared
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026). The cost figure sums band floors, so the true total is higher.
The file, right now
The consultation closed on 2 Aug 2026 — it ran from 15 Jun 2026.
Where it stands
In planning
Adoption expected
31 Dec 2026 · in 123 days
How it got here
Call for evidence2 Aug 2026
Also on the Commission’s pipeline for this file, with no date recorded: Initiative planned, Communication.
This strategy aims to close knowledge and innovation gaps to achieve the objectives of the Water Resilience Strategy. It will: facilitate funding for water R & I and help scale up existing solutions to boost competitiveness and sustainability by supporting technological advancements in key areas ensuring a source-to-sea approach and tackling pollution help overcome the fragmentation of Europe’s water R & I landscape…
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The VÖWG warmly welcomes the initiative as it responds to key challenges for the protection of water resources and the long-term security of public water supply and sanitation. However, successful implementation requires water resilience to be addressed as a cross-sectoral task, problems to be solved at source as a matter of priority, and the polluter pays principle to be consistently applied.
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CDP Response to the European Commission Call for Evidence: Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy CDP runs the world's largest environmental disclosure system. Through its water security questions, CDP collects data from thousands of companies on water-related risks, opportunities, dependencies, impacts, governance, strategy and performance.
The Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a dedicated EU Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. At a time when water-related challenges are becoming increasingly interconnected and systemic, the Strategy represents a unique opportunity to establish a coherent long-term framework capable of strengthening Europe's scientific leadership…
Remote Arctic and northern regions provide an early-warning setting for water resilience across Europe. The R&I strategy should integrate availability and access with pollutant control, protection of drinking water and food sources, and human- and environmental exposure assessment in the context of climate change.
Contribution of the Research Unit Water and Environment of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ to the consultation on the revision of the water resilience research and innovation (R&I) strategy The Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research UFZ in Germany conducts research to support a sustainable use of natural resources to the benefit of both mankind and the environment.
Strengthening Europe's Water Resilience through Sponge Landscapes A Contribution to the European Water Research and Innovation Agenda Europe is once again experiencing widespread droughts, prolonged heatwaves and devastating wildfires, while other regions continue to suffer from increasingly severe floods.
EMODnet welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop an European Ocean and Water Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategy and supports the proposed integrated source-to-sea approach. Successful implementation of a source-to-sea approach requires a public, diverse and interoperable marine and freshwater knowledge base, building on existing capability.
The Horizon Europe eDNAqua-Plan project (101112800, 20232026) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Water Resilience R&I Strategy. The project has developed a Technical Blueprint and Roadmap to transform aquatic biodiversity monitoring through environmental DNA (eDNA), addressing fragmentation in data, tools, and frameworks.
The VDBA welcomes the objective of better coordinating research and innovation for climate-resilient, sustainable and competitive water management. Inland fishing and aquaculture are directly dependent on water availability, water quality, temperature development, extreme events and functioning aquatic ecosystems.
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AGWA offers these inputs in support of a strong R&I strategy, drawing on field experience of where resilience efforts run into difficulty. How water is handled often decides whether wider climate and economic investments deliver, so two risks stand out: gaps beyond a technology-and-efficiency frame, and investments that lock in maladaptation. A.
Call for Evidence Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy DANVA (Danish water and wastewater association) welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a dedicated Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy.
The EIA is constituted of 80+ members that work in the irrigation sector, representing 60+% of the European market through the whole value chain, from equipment manufacturing to its end-use. EIA promotes a wiser management of water resources both for agriculture and urban landscapes, relying on the use of Precision Irrigation tools and solutions.
ERRIN's Blue Economy Working Group submits that water resilience cannot be achieved without recognising local and regional authorities as delivery partners. As managers of spatial planning, water utilities, agriculture and civil protection, they are closest to citizens and to the water-land nexus in practice, and are able to foster the implementation of place-based innovative solutions.
Water resilience R&I strategy (initiative 16276) Vízipari Holding Zrt (Water Industries Holding), Hungary. We are a group of water-industry engineering and construction companies: the delivery side of the sector, which must turn R&I results, EU funding and regulatory deadlines into working infrastructure.
The One Water Alliance welcomes the Commission's initiative to develop a Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. We are a network of over 140 member organisations across 28 countries, spanning the freshwater, marine and maritime domains, and our position, summarised below, argues that Europe's central water challenge today is one of deployment rather than discovery.
DAKU Italia and Università Iuav di Venezia welcome the European Commission's initiative to develop a research and innovation strategy for water resilience. Our joint contribution, attached to this submission, combines academic research with over 35 years of industrial expertise in green infrastructure.
U.Di.Con. APS welcomes the European Commission’s initiative on the Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy, considering that sustainable and efficient water management is a priority objective for consumer protection.
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Aqua Publica Europea (APE), the European association of publicly owned water and sanitation operators serving over 90 million citizens across Europe, welcomes the Commission's initiative to develop a European Research and Innovation Strategy for Water Resilience. Our detailed response, attached to this submission, reflects contributions from APE and its members across several Member States.
The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences welcomes the European water resilience research and innovation (R&I) strategy for setting out a long-term plan to make Europe resilient to water-related challenges by 2050. We would like to highlight knowledge gaps and the need for further research on the (1) global water cycle and (2) hydrometeorological hazards, impacts and risks.
A European water resilience research and innovation strategy should address the full range of water-related challenges affecting society, industry and ecosystems. This includes freshwater availability and quality, wastewater treatment and reuse, the removal of micropollutants and emerging contaminants, and the sustainable management of coastal and marine water resources.
Politecnico di Torino welcomes the initiative and its source-to-sea integration with the Ocean strategy. We also share the diagnosis: the problem is less a shortage of solutions than the fragmentation of EU water R&I and the gap between pilot and deployment. See details in the attached file.
Ecolab welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a dedicated Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. The initiative is timely because water resilience is crucial for competitiveness, industrial continuity and climate adaptation. However, the central implementation gap is not a lack of ambition alone.
Circular Materials, Italian cleantech company recognised as a Strategic Project under the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), welcomes the Commission's initiative to develop a Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy and stresses how reliable and sustainable industrial water management is an increasingly important competitiveness factor.
FP2E welcomes the Commission's decision, under the European Water Resilience Strategy and its source-to-sea approach, to develop a future European Ocean and Water Research and Innovation Strategy addressing the persistent fragmentation of EU R&I initiatives.
AxelOne fully supports the development of a water resilience R&I strategy. Indeed the widespread presence of PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, represents a systemic threat to the resilience of Europes water resources. Due to their persistence and chemical stability, PFAS accumulate in the environment and are now detected in water, soil, air and living organisms.
IOM recommends that the EU Water Resilience R&I Strategy: 1) includes human mobility, internal displacement and migrant inclusion as cross-cutting research priorities; 2) develops human mobility-sensitive water-risk data, forecasting and early warning systems for Europe; 3) pilots climate vulnerability and human mobility assessments in European regions exposed to water stress; 4) supports nature-based solutions that…
Executive Summary RISE welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. Europe has already generated substantial knowledge, technologies and innovations to address water-related challenges.
The widespread presence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as forever chemicals, represents a systemic threat to the resilience of Europes water resources. Due to their persistence and chemical stability, PFAS accumulate in the environment and are now detected in water, soil, air and living organisms.
Water4All welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a future Ocean and Water Research and Innovation Strategy and fully supports the ambition to strengthen coordination across Europe's water-related research and innovation landscape. Europe's future competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy increasingly depend on its capacity to protect, restore and sustainably manage freshwater systems.
Helmholtz is Germanys largest research organisation, more than 48 000 people work together to develop solutions and technologies for the world of tomorrow. With an annual budget of six billion euros and long-term, interdisciplinary research programs we address global challenges.
Helmholtz is Germanys largest research organisation, more than 48 000 people work together to develop solutions and technologies for the world of tomorrow. With an annual budget of six billion euros and long-term, interdisciplinary research programs we address global challenges.
Helmholtz is Germanys largest research organisation, more than 48 000 people work together to develop solutions and technologies for the world of tomorrow. With an annual budget of six billion euros and long-term, interdisciplinary research programs we address global challenges.
Helmholtz is Germanys largest research organisation, more than 48 000 people work together to develop solutions and technologies for the world of tomorrow. With an annual budget of six billion euros and long-term, interdisciplinary research programs we address global challenges.
VorteX-io contributes to the Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy as the operator of an infrastructure-as-a-service model for hydrological monitoring: 745 autonomous stations currently in service across France, Croatia, Morocco, Australia, Paraguay, Rodrigues and now Ukraine, deployed and maintained on behalf of public water authorities and delivering real-time river data for drought and flood…
The European Aquaculture Technology & Innovation Platform (EATiP) is pleased to comment on a Call for Evidence on the European Water Resilience Research & Innovation Strategy (WWRIS). EATiP has an organisational reach of some 850 actors across the aquaculture R&I value chain.
EIT Water welcomes the European Commission's initiatives to develop a Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy and a European Ocean Research and Innovation Strategy. We particularly welcome the Commission's intention to bring the two agendas together in a single integrated Ocean and Water Research and Innovation Strategy.
Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy (ASAC) The Catalan Water Services Association (ASAC), which represents the majority of bodies managing the integrated water cycle in Catalonia, presents its contribution to the European Water Research and Innovation Strategy (R & I), with the aim of building a competitive and ‘water-smart’ economy. The document is structured in three main blocks. 1.
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Water Europe welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop an EU Ocean and Water Research & Innovation Strategy. Europe possesses world-class scientific excellence in water research, but too many innovative solutions remain confined to research projects and pilot demonstrations.
The ToDrinQ project submits this contribution to the European Commission's public consultation on the future European Strategy for Ocean and Water Research and Innovation. Building on the implementation needs of the revised Drinking Water Directive, ToDrinQ demonstrates how integrated monitoring, AI-supported decision support, interoperable digital platforms and innovative treatment technologies can strengthen…
The proposed approach is considered to be overall coherent, in particular by emphasising the need for sustainable water management, the articulation between sectoral policies and the role of innovation and scientific knowledge.
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Strengthen governance, financing and public-sector innovation capacity: Water resilience is often constrained more by fragmented governance, short planning horizons and limited orgonisational capacity than by a lack of technology. Future R&I should therefore strengthen the ability of municipalities and utilities to adopt and scale new solutions.
Waterise welcomes the opportunity, through the attached file, to respond to the European Commissions call for evidence on the water resilience research and innovation strategy. An ambitious and transformative research and innovation strategy, capable of supporting new and environmentally sustainable technologies, is essential to achieve true water resilience in the EU, in line with the objectives of the European…
The European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) takes note of the European Commissions initiative to address the management of water resources in Europe, particularly in light of the increasing pressures linked to water scarcity. As the representative body of the European data centre industry, EUDCA underscores the sectors commitment to sustainability and resource efficiency.
This is a joint response to the EU Call for Evidence concerning its upcoming water resilience research and innovation strategy. The signatory parties are investment company and business developer Sandberg Development, the Water Science Lab at Malmö University, and the water technology start-up companies Watersprint, Drupps and PluvioFlow.
As one of Europe's largest industrial companies, ArcelorMittal welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a dedicated Research and Innovation Strategy for Water Resilience. Water resilience should not be considered solely as an environmental objective. It is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for industrial resilience, competitiveness, decarbonisation and European strategic autonomy.
The European Semiconductor Industry Association, ESIA, calls on policy-makers to support the use electronic components, including microelectronic sensors, for advanced particle detection and contamination analysis. Likewise, the use of ICT-enabled (including AI-enabled) solutions for water management should be encouraged.
The Fraunhofer Water Systems Alliance welcomes the Commission's recognition that a strategic, coordinated R&I framework for water resilience is urgently needed. The EU water sector is not held back by a lack of technology, but by a set of structural conditions that make it difficult to move from successful demonstration to real-world deployment at scale.
Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. As the responsible agency for Sweden's National Research Programme on Oceans and Water, Formas sees water resilience as a prerequisite for achieving climate resilience, biodiversity goals, sustainable competitiveness, public health, and…
The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) Foundation welcomes a dedicated R&I strategy for water resilience to be joined into a single integrated Ocean and Water R&I Strategy covering the entire source-to-sea continuum. As water is the medium through which climate change is most directly experienced, Europe's water knowledge base will determine its adaptive capacity.
Nepta (an Italgas company) welcomes the Commission's work on an EU water resilience R&I strategy and asks that the following priorities be turned into an operational roadmap for Member States, with clear targets, timelines and responsibilities.
Algae sector contribution to the European Ocean Research and Innovation Strategy The European Ocean Research and Innovation Strategy should recognise algae and restorative aquaculture as strategic enablers of a competitive, low-carbon and regenerative blue economy.
Acta - Les instituts techniques agricoles, the French network of applied agricultural research institutes, welcomes the development of the future Water Resilience R&I Strategy and its cross-sectoral ambition. Building on joint reflections within its network and the agricultural applied research perspective, Acta highlights the following priorities for Strategy: 1.
The Government of the Azores hereby submits its contribution to the public consultation on the future Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy, which represents its position for the reflection on the main challenges, opportunities, needs and priorities of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
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Please find in the attached file the full contribution of the University of Lorraine. The University of Lorraine is one of the largest French public research universities based in Lorraine, Grand Est region, France. With more than 60,000 students spanning 49 geographic locations, it is considered nationwide as being first in terms of engineering education and student entrepreneurship.
The Research and Innovation Strategy for Water Resilience comes at a critical moment, as Europe faces increasing pressures on water resources. It is imperative to accelerate innovation while strengthening scientific knowledge on water resilience, therefore the future strategy should ensure a balanced approach to funding activities at both low and high-TRL.
The Water Resilience R&I strategy represents an opportunity to channel resources towards the protection and restoration of the water cycle, one of the key objectives of the Water Resilience Strategy. In this respect, a key objective of the strategy should be to go beyond individual nature-based solutions in freshwater ecosystems towards restoring entire hydrological systems at the level of the landscape.
The Danish Agriculture & Food Council (DAFC) welcomes the European Commission's initiative to establish a combined Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. Overall, we would like to highlight the following issues that should be addressed: * Holistic approach and turning knowledge into action * Water resilience must be linked to food security and climate adaptation * Strengthening partnerships across…
The Region of Murcia operates the most intensive reclaimed-water reuse system in the European Union. It treats 99 % of its urban wastewater, serves 99.3 % of its population through one hundred treatment plants, and reclaims more than 96 % of the water it treats so that it can be reused: around 120 hm³ per year. Reuse rates for treated wastewater stand at 11 % in Spain and below 3 % across the Union.
ÖVGW welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. From the perspective of public drinking water suppliers, a coordinated European approach is justified, as water-related risks are cross-border challenges that require better alignment of research, data, methods and innovation support.
Veolia recommends that the future EU Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy focus on two priorities: accelerating the transition from innovation to commercial deployment, and targeting strategic needs for a resilient, circular and sovereign water economy.
Water is life, and availability of safe, environmentally friendly, and affordable water is under immense pressure in our times of water scarcity, climate crises, and unrest. The Water Resilience Strategy is a great initiative to tackle the serious challenges along multiple dimensions, and we welcome the invitation to contribute to the Call of Evidence on the R&I Strategy.
As a coastal city facing increasing challenges related to climate change, sea level rise, groundwater management, the availability and quality of drinking water, and extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall and droughts, we see a strong need for a coordinated European approach that accelerates innovation and supports the implementation of solutions.
VinylPlus recommends the following: - Water resilience requires resilient infrastructure: Effective water management must be supported by durable, climate-resilient and resource-efficient water distribution, wastewater and stormwater networks.
WATERVERSE welcomes an EU Water Resilience Research & Innovation Strategy. Its 17 partners from 10 countries demonstrated how a Water Data Management Ecosystem (WDME) makes water data FAIR, secure and easier to use, over two pilots at six sites (NL, DE, CY, UK, ES, FI).
Please find attached Wetlands International Europe's response to the Call for Evidence on the Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. We define 4 priorities that we believe could make a significant contribution to Europe's long-term water resilience, climate adaptation and competitiveness.
GÉANT supports the proposal for a combined EU Ocean and Water Research and Innovation Strategy. Specifically, we hope to see the Strategy acknowledge digital research infrastructure as a vital enabler of Europes strategic priorities and, in line with a revised MSPD, create a legal basis for ocean observation governance.
EASAC is preparing an independent, evidence-based report drawing on expertise from 27 national science academies, which assesses water availability trends, landscape retention loss, nature-based solutions (NbS), and the financing gaps constraining their deployment.
Saur welcomes the Commission's initiative to provide the Union with a research and innovation strategy dedicated to water resilience. As an operator and provider of technologies and solutions, present in more than 25 countries, serving 20 million consumers and 9,000 local authorities and industrial clients, Saur works where research meets the constraints of operations.
The European Water Tech Accelerator welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the development of the future European Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. The Strategy should provide a coherent framework that accelerates the journey from research to market deployment while strengthening the competitiveness, strategic autonomy, and global leadership of Europe's water sector.
As the Dutch independent applied research institute on water and subsurface, Deltares welcomes the opportunity to respond to the open public consultation Call for evidence Water resilience research and innovation strategy.
The UNIVERSWATER consortium welcomes the development of a European Ocean and Water Research & Innovation Strategy. The project demonstrates how digital innovation can strengthen water resilience in agriculture by integrating monitoring, data management and decision-support into a single risk-based management framework.
The Regional Government of Valencia fully shares the objective of strengthening the European Union’s water resilience through a strategy based on knowledge, research, innovation and the protection of ecosystems. However, it rejects the idea that the ‘From Source to Sea’ principle, as currently proposed, should form the conceptual backbone of the future European Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy.
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The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) welcomes the development of the European Research and Innovation Strategy for Water Resilience. Based on the experience gained in several conservation and ecological restoration projects developed in the Azores over the last two decades, the SPEA considers that this Strategy represents an opportunity to strengthen the link between research, innovation and…
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The Faculty of Science at the University of Southern Denmark welcomes the development of an EU Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy and supports its ambition to create more coherent and structured programming of water-related research and innovation. We recommend that the strategy adopt a mission-oriented approach and build systematically on the lessons learned from the Horizon Europe Missions.
The European Marine Board (EMB) welcomes the merging of the Ocean and Water Resilience Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategies as a clear sign of the Commissions commitment to a source-to-sea approach for managing our Ocean and inland waters.
The Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) is a CERCA research centre based in Girona (Spain) devoted to advancing scientific knowledge and innovation across the integrated water cycle. The following feedback has been jointly prepared by researchers from different disciplines and reflects our collective experience in water resilience research, innovation, and science-policy interfaces. 1.
CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône) has been the concessionaire of the French State for the development of the Rhône river since 1934 and is thus responsible for three joint and several tasks: dhydropower production, the development of river navigation and the binding of agricultural land in the Rhône valley.
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TP Organics, the European Technology Platform for Research & Innovation into Organics and Agroecology hosted by IFOAM Organics Europe, welcomes the EC initiative to develop a water resilience R&I strategy. Despite the Water Framework Directive, 63% of all surface water bodies are not in a good ecological condition. The EEA has identified agriculture as one of the major pressures on the state of water in the EU.
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is Europes leading research-performing organisation, recognised for its excellence in fundamental and applied research and its contribution to advancing knowledge and innovation for society.
Here's a version that's **under 4,000 characters** (including spaces) while preserving the key policy points. --- # North Donegal Fishermen's Group (NDFG) ## Response to the European Commission Call for Evidence Water Resilience Research & Innovation Strategy North Donegal Fishermen's Group (NDFG) represents the inshore fishing fleet operating around the Inishowen Peninsula, including Lough Swilly, Malin Head and…
The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) is Germanys largest research centre for freshwaters. Our research findings help to tackle environmental changes and to develop strategies for sustainable water management true to our guiding principle Research for the future of our freshwaters.
The EEB welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Call for Evidence on the Water Resilience Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategy. This initiative should serve to support the implementation and achievement of the objectives of EU water legislation to protect and restore coastal and freshwater ecosystems, which are the foundations of Europes water resilience.
Ifremer welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy as a key instrument supporting the implementation of the European Water Resilience Strategy. The Strategy should strengthen Europe's capacity to generate, integrate and deploy knowledge and innovation across the water cycle, with a primary focus on freshwater systems and water availability for…
Europe benefits from one of the world's most advanced water research and innovation (R&I) ecosystems and is a global leader in water-related technologies. Yet the challenges facing the European Union today, including climate change, increasing water scarcity, tighter environmental standards, industrial competitiveness, and strategic autonomy, require a shift in priorities.
The Verband kommunaler Unternehmen e.V. (VKU) represents over 1600 companies in the distribution and disposal sector in Germany. Water supply and sanitation are key components of municipal services of general interest. The VKU welcomes the initiative to develop a research and innovation strategy for water resilience. Europe faces major water challenges.
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The Flood Protection and Spatial Planning Limburg Programme (WRL) was established following the extreme floods of July 2021. Within WRL, the Province of Limburg, Water Authority Limburg, 31 Limburg municipalities and the Dutch government collaborate to create a water-resilient and climate-resilient Limburg. WRL provides valuable insights for the European R&I Strategy for Water Resilience.
Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) welcomes the development of an EU Ocean and Water Research and Innovation Strategy. ALI works to ensure that aquatic animal welfare is recognised and protected in the frameworks governing aquatic food systems. Water resilience is not only about water availability, efficiency or economic use.
ABOUT THE CEPM: The Confédération Européenne des Producteurs de Maïs (CEPM) brings together trade and inter-trade organisations whose mission is to represent and defend in their respective countries the interests of all or part of the maize chain: corn, maize silage, maize seed and sweet corn.
À PROPOS DE L'AGPM: Créée en 1934, lAssociation Générale des Producteurs de Maïs (AGPM) constitue le cœur politique du groupe MaizEurop. Sa mission principale est de défendre les producteurs de maïs et lensemble des filières du maïs (grain, fourrage, semences, maïs doux, etc.) auprès des autorités françaises et européennes.
HULO welcomes the Commission's Call for Evidence and its ambition to make Europe water resilient by 2050. As a European scale-up providing network intelligence for drinking water utilities, active in the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and other Member States, we offer the following observations in support of the strategy's objectives, in particular the goal of building a water-smart economy.
TP Organics, the European Technology Platform for Research & Innovation into Organics and Agroecology hosted by IFOAM Organics Europe, welcomes the EC initiative to develop a water resilience R&I strategy. Despite the Water Framework Directive being in place for more than 20 years, 63% of all surface water bodies in the EU are not in a good ecological condition.
We welcome the initiative to structure a European R & I strategy for Roma resilience. Climate, environmental, health, economic and territorial pressures make it necessary to move beyond a fragmented approach to climate change.
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Our assessment of the document is positive. It correctly recognises that water and ocean resilience require stronger coordination, better access to finance, improved testing infrastructure and faster transfer of research into practical solutions.
We welcome the initiative to structure a European R & I strategy for Roma resilience. Climate, environmental, health, economic and territorial pressures make it necessary to move beyond a fragmented approach to climate change.
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Irrigants de France is a French organisation which brings together more than 50 department-rate groups of irrigating farmers and 10 national associations. In this respect, our association represents the 80 000 farms equipped with irrigation in France and the diversity of French agricultural sectors.
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VIVAQUA welcomes the development of a European R&I strategy for water resilience. As a major public water utility in Belgium, we are witnessing profound changes in both water resources and operational conditions. Climate change, emerging contaminants and increasing societal expectations are creating new challenges that require stronger links between research, innovation and practical implementation.
The European Water Association (EWA) welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a dedicated Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. EWA strongly supports the ambition to strengthen Europes capacity to restore and protect the water cycle, build a water-smart economy, guarantee access to clean and affordable water, and improve the coordination and deployment of water-related research and…
Hello, We welcome the Committee’s request for information. Research and innovation remain important pillars of water policy and one of our priority areas of work, in particular with our partners at ENGEES – University of Strasbourg.
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EURAMET, the European Association of National Metrology Institutes, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commission's call for evidence on a Water Resilience Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategy. To achieve a water-resilient Europe by 2050 and support the European Water Resilience Strategy, R&I investment should include the measurement-science foundations needed for trustworthy and comparable data.
ACEA welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a dedicated Water Resilience Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategy as a key instrument to implement the EU Water Resilience Strategy and strengthen Europe's resilience, competitiveness and sustainable growth.
VITO Kennispunt Water welcomes the development of the EU Ocean and Water Research and Innovation Strategy and is pleased to contribute its experience in supporting systemic water innovation. In the attached contribution, we propose a practical approach for making source-to-sea operational.
It is important that the strategy explicitly includes water reservoirs in a Northern European context. Reservoirs used for irrigation during increasingly frequent spring and summer drought periods, driven by climate change, can help maintain high agricultural productivity in those parts of the EU that have the greatest yield potential due to favourable climatic and soil conditions.
GENERAL The Region of Southwest Finland supports combining the EU Ocean and Water resilience R&I Strategies in line with the source-to-sea approach. Many of the current pressures affecting marine ecosystems originate from land-based activities, and therefore the entire water system from catchments to coastal waters and seas should be addressed as an interconnected whole.
Assomela, the Italian Association of Apple Producers, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the development of a European strategy aimed at strengthening water resilience through research and innovation. As climate change leads to increasingly frequent droughts and greater pressure on water resources, sustainable water management has become a strategic priority for the Italian apple sector.
DIs response can be found in the attached document. It focuses on three overarching priorities: the need to address regulatory trade-offs across EU legislation, the importance of accelerating the deployment and scaling of solutions that already exist, and the need to strengthen skills and workforce development to support the green and digital transition of the water sector.
DHI A/S welcomes the call for evidence and the valuable opportunity given to provide input for the development of the Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. Along with digitalisation, we consider research and innovation as core enablers of the Water Resilience Strategy and our perspective and contributions are outlined in the document attached.
AnaEE-ERIC welcomes the development of a European Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. Delivering long-term water resilience and water security requires a systemic understanding of the interactions between climate, land use, soils, biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and human activities.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute welcomes a new water resilience research and innovation RI strategy. Operational oceanography now has a maturity level approaching that of operational weather forecasting. Some challenges remain, however, that could be addressed in the new strategy.
Contribution to the EU Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy from the Danish Ministry of Environment. Best regards [name removed] Chiefadvisor EU & International Affairs Phone: [phone removed] [email removed] Ministry of the Environment/Ministry of the Environment Departementet l Frederiksholms Kanal 26 l 1220 Copenhagen K l Phone [phone removed] l [email removed] l www.mim.dk
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On behalf of WaterSense, we submit our feedback to the European Commissions Call for Evidence on the Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. Our full position paper is attached. WaterSense is a European deep tech startup developing affordable, scalable technologies for continuous inland water-quality monitoring.
Svenskt Vatten response to the European Commissions call for evidence on the upcoming Water Resilience R&I Strategy. Svenskt Vatten, Swedens national organisation for water and wastewater services, welcomes the proposed strategy. It addresses key challenges facing water utilities, including climate change, water scarcity, pollution and growing pressure on critical infrastructure.
Bosch, a steadfast proponent of a resilient, competitive, and transformative European economy, welcomes the European Commission's initiative to outline an ambitious water resilience research and innovation strategy. Building on our vision for a green and sustainable Europe, Bosch would like to highlight following recommendations (see attachment) as means to guide the outlined aims and elements of the initiative.
A Water Utility perspective on the Water Resilience R&I Strategy. The Water Resilience R&I Strategy would deliver the greatest added value by strengthening Europes capacity not only to generate knowledge and innovation, but also to ensure their effective deployment and uptake under operational conditions.
The future European Ocean and Water Research and Innovation Strategy is a key opportunity to provide a scientific and technological basis for a problem that has so far been partially addressed by administrations: the disconnection between river infrastructure management and coastal management.
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Kemira welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a Water Resilience Research & Innovation Strategy and strongly supports its main objectives of channeling funding towards impactful innovation. As a global leader in sustainable chemistry for water-intensive industries, Kemira places innovation at the core of its strategy, with a strong focus on developing and scaling advanced solutions that address…
Regarding Part B, Restoring and Protecting the Water Cycle, of the Call for Evidence, priority should be given to nature-based solutions that simultaneously recharge groundwater, reduce the impacts of floods and droughts, and enhance both aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity.
Water resilience requires an integrated systems approach that connects circular resource recovery, nature-based solutions, risk-informed economic models, and adaptive governance. The Water Resilience R&I Strategy should act as a catalyst for systemic transformation by aligning these dimensions and closing the gap between innovation and large-scale deployment.
The Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) welcomes the development of a European Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy and supports its ambition to strengthen Europes preparedness for climate, environmental and economic challenges. Water resilience cannot be achieved through isolated sectoral measures.
SGI Europe, representing employers of public services and services of general interest in the energy, water, waste management, telecommunication, transport and local and regional authorities, welcomes the opportunity to submit recommendations to the Water Resilience research and innovation strategy to reach the EU Water Resilience Strategy's goal of 10 % Water efficiency.
This feedback is on behalf of water wise societies. Water Wise Socieities is an Swedish impact innovation driven platform financed by Formas, Vinnova and the Swedish Energy Agency, Focused on water. The scope is source to coast and we gather more then 80 actors in Sweden as members and additional actors in different calls and activities.
I have carefully reviewed the WRS report and, as a professor of hydrogeologywith expertise derived not only from academia but also from extensive field experience, I would like to emphasize several critical points.
The proposed Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy addresses one of the most important challenges facing Europe in the coming decades. Climate change, increasing water scarcity, aging infrastructure, pollution, and growing demand from agriculture, industry, and urban areas require a new generation of water management solutions.
As coordinators of the HEU project CIRCALGAE, we believe that water resilience should be considered not only from the perspective of water availability but also through resource efficiency and circularity. Sustainable biorefineries can play a key role by transforming aquatic biomass and industrial side streams into high-value products while minimising water consumption, recovering nutrients, and reducing waste…
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We welcome the initiative of the Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy and support the objectives of restoring the water cycle, replenishing groundwater, mitigating droughts and deploying nature-based solutions. These priorities are particularly important for agriculture, which is increasingly affected by climate change, water scarcity and extreme weather events.
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Future ocean and water research should give greater attention to soil erosion and clay-sized mineral particle transport as an integrated source-to-sea challenge. Erosion-driven mobilisation of clay minerals and mineral colloids connects agricultural soils, river basins, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal waters, influencing freshwater resilience, sediment stability and coastal ecosystem quality.
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