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Resiliants: WATER

Resiliants: WATER aims to create a predictive dashboard for avocado farming in La Palma, integrating AI-based climate projections to guide agricultural investments. By...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

Impact-based forecasting and early warning for Flood Hazard, Drought

We are developing a dashboard for the Prespa-Ohrid Lake community and authorities to monitor water levels, forecast floods and droughts, and provide early warnings, al...

Droughts Heavy Precipitation River floods

Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

Off-Grid Clean Water for Irrigation and Water Storage

We address two water issues: treatment and storage. Using compact robotic reverse osmosis (RO) for water treatment and a fast-installation, mass-volume water storage s...

Heavy Precipitation Droughts Sea level rise

Coastal areas Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

EnCoFlow System

The EnCoFLow System is an innovative way to operate the biological stage of a wastewater treatment plant based on enzyme kinetic principles to reduce energy consumptio...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Nutzwasser – an alternative water resource

Aim of the „Nutzwasser“-project is to further optimize the water quality after the conventional treatment in order to generate „Nutzwasser“ as an alternative water res...

Droughts Heatwaves

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

IRRIFRAME

IRRIFRAME is Decision Support System for Farm Water Management aiming to ensure an efficient use of water resources in the agricultural sector.

Droughts Heatwaves

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Governance and social innovations

ARSINOE Network

OptySun for Torbay: Advanced Flood Response Technology

"OptySun for Torbay" represents a shift from crisis response to global flood resilience, highlighting a commitment to sustainable, resilient, and community-centric sol...

Multi-hazards

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Nerthus

Our predictive service uses satellite imagery and AI to forecast conditions favorable for cyanobacteria blooms. By analyzing factors like water temperature and nutrien...

Multi-hazards

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

ARSINOE Network

First steps for the design of a transboundary water monitoring scheme for the Prespa basin

A joint water monitoring scheme in the Prespa basin, shared by Greece, North Macedonia, and Albania, will harmonize methodologies and enhance cross-border cooperation,...

Multi-hazards

Coastal areas Water management

Governance and social innovations

ARSINOE Network

Green House Control (GNHC)

This digital farming platform revolutionizes agriculture with smart data management, real-time visualization, and decision support. It enhances production quality, mee...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

CliWeCaFor

Our Excel-based tool predicts climate risks by analyzing hydro-meteorological data. It provides alerts and actionable insights for managing floods, droughts, and water...

Droughts Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

No-till in mulch

Wicker rye is planted in autumn and mulched in spring. Slots are cut in the mulch for seeds. The mulch protects soil, promotes soil life, and enhances water absorption...

Droughts Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation

Agriculture Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Models and tools

ARSINOE Network

TREATS

The TREATS project develops an expert system to optimize irrigation techniques for water conservation. It analyzes factors like soil, climate, and crop type to guide f...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

Smart Pathogens Detection

The B.EL.DTM sensor provides rapid, accurate water quality testing for bacteria, with results in under 3 minutes and 99% accuracy. Portable and user-friendly, it integ...

Multi-hazards

Health Water management

Models and tools

ARSINOE Network

Non-destructive monitoring of forest and water of Ropotamo river

Remote and non-destructive monitoring with a flying drone (UAV) equipped with multispectral sensors is an innovative approach for assessing the state of surface vegeta...

Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

ARSINOE Network

AQUASmartTech

With the proposed AQUASmartTech project, we aim to design, and implement an IoT platform through which end-users can have real-time insight into water quality paramete...

Droughts Multi-hazards Pluvial floods

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Integrating Rain harvesting and sdar pumping

The proposed innovation is an integrated system which combines already well known and commercialized products such as rain-water-harvesting and solar pumps. Rainwater ...

Droughts

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

vertECO® – the multifunctional green wall

vertECO® is a green wall that treats wastewater with plants and microbes. It purifies water for reuse, cutting tap water use by 50%. The system is eco-friendly, easy t...

Droughts Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Athens Cooling Station 2.0

The Athens Cooling Station 2.0 is an off-grid installation using solar power and rainwater for misting and cooling. It covers 50 square meters with shading, misting, a...

Heatwaves

Energy Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

RESpring EDUPark

The innovation adds a protective shell to sewer mining infrastructure, shielding components, educating the community, reducing carbon footprint, and mitigating urban h...

Droughts Heatwaves

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Urban Heat Monitoring

WEO uses satellite data and AI to help cities manage climate change and urban heat. It provides high-resolution insights, maps heat, vegetation, and surfaces, and reco...

Coastal floods Droughts Heatwaves

Biodiversity Urban Areas Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

Technology&Ideas

Our innovation combines climate and water monitoring of Lake Ohrid with social innovations. It uses advanced equipment to track lake conditions and engage local commun...

Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods Storms

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

ENOVA BioSense

Water pollution affects life and ecosystems. BOD takes 5 days and needs labs. Our bio-electrochemical sensors detect pollution up to 5000 times faster (1 sec to 1 min)...

Multi-hazards

Ecosystem-based approaches Health Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Kausal Platform

The Kausal Platform includes Kausal Watch and Kausal Paths. Kausal Watch manages climate actions, and Kausal Paths sets goals and estimates impacts. Cities can update ...

Multi-hazards

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Governance and social innovations

Tested in ARSINOE

Integrated Water Resilience System (IWRS)

The IWRS uses sensors and drones for real-time water monitoring in the Ohrid and Prespa Lakes. It engages locals for data management and community awareness, promoting...

Droughts Multi-hazards

Agriculture Biodiversity Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

Visualization, simulation and analyzes of the impact of climate change processes on biofiltration capacity with metaverse technology

ProVerse creates a 3D model of the Danube Delta using real-time data for water quality monitoring. Advanced analytics forecast trends and identify risks. Community pla...

Heavy Precipitation River floods Sea level rise

Biodiversity Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Governance and social innovations

Tested in ARSINOE

WATER4ALL

WATER4ALL measures groundwater in real-time to estimate lake levels and issue alerts. Data is accessible via web and apps. It includes a study on climate impacts, rais...

Droughts Multi-hazards

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Governance and social innovations

Tested in ARSINOE

Tap Water Friendly Main Cycle Route (Leitungswasserfreundlicher Main-Radweg)

It provides cyclists (and other passersby) with fresh drinking water, to raise awareness on its environmental benefits and quality. This will lead to more appreciation...

Droughts Heatwaves

Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Application Framework with Drone system

ICT System for early warning and monitoring composed by: on site sensors (e.g. along a river); an automated warning system; fitted for communication with deployable sy...

River floods

Water management

Models and tools

Drini Watershed Management in Albania

The innovation is an integrated approach of the natural resources management in order to mitigate effects of floods and other natural hazards (erosion, landslides, dro...

River floods

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Nature-based Services

Flip-Flap cofferdam

The Flip-Flap dam is designed for urban areas prone to river flooding. In case of a flood threat the height of the levee can be increased up to the safety standard. Th...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Flood Local Tool – Albania

Flash floods are characterized by the occurrence of their flood peaks within 3-6 hours after the onset of rainfall. Warning the population located close to the risked ...

River floods

Water management

Models and tools

Flood planting at Erzeni river

This innovation aims to prevent flooding by planting techniques that are environmentally friendly. It focuses on two alternative solutions. 1) The installation of Coir...

River floods

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Nature-based Services

FLUTSCHUTZ Alignment Protection

For construction of a conventional sandbag alignment to protect of low-lying areas in case of flooding huge amounts of sandbags are needed. Approximately 7,000 sandbag...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

FLUTSCHUTZ DeichKADE

For construction of a conventional sandbag alignment to protect low-lying areas in case of flooding huge amounts of sandbags are needed. Approximately 7,000 sandbags a...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

FLUTSCHUTZ Impoundment

To secure dike sections that are at risk of breakage, structures made entirely of sandbags or sandbags in combination with fascines (cylindrical bundle of brushwood or...

River floods

Water management

Engineering and built environment

My Flood Risk

In the EU many citizens are at risk of floods from rivers, seas and heavy rainfall. Reliable, science based information does exist, such as the EU Flood Directive maps...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

NOAQ Boxwall

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

NOAQ Tubewall

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Operational flood forecasting system including levee performance

Heavy rainfall and/or high discharges upstream cause rising water levels in rivers and streams. Certainly in steep areas this could lead to extremely fast rising water...

River floods

Coastal areas Water management

Models and tools

EVACOLD

Treatment of salty waters and brine effluents with a high potential for recovering salts and generating new freshwater resources

Droughts

Water management

Technology

Water+ Furrow Diker

Increase soil water conservation in drought-prone agroecosystems

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Engineering and built environment

Raincast: A seasonal forecasting system for drought management

Raincast improves the making-decision process of agencies and companies in the water (basin authorities), agriculture (farming associations) and industrial (hydropower...

Droughts

Agriculture Energy Water management

Models and tools

Hydroeconomic DSS tools for drought management

Finding and implementation of optimal operating rules on surface reservoirs and aquifers to efficiently face drought impacts by re-arranging demand deliveries in a way...

Droughts

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Halophyte Zeolite Wetlands (HZW)

Treatment and reuse of agro-industrial wastewaters for irrigation activities in drought prone regions

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Nature-based Services

IRRINET-IRRIFRAME

Irrigated agriculture is the most relevant water use sector, therefore highlighting the key role that efficient irrigation plays for saving water at the global level. ...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

PrHo

TIC solutions for better agriculture and crop management

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

The Portable Natural Biological System

Small waste streams such as roadside/rail toilets, guard posts, house or small neighborhood sewage; contaminated wells and boreholes for drinking water

Droughts

Health Water management

Engineering and built environment

AquaTag Remote

Affordable remote measurement of soil moisture, EC and temperature for horticulture and agriculture (and other applications). This type of measurement is needed to use...

Droughts

Water management

Models and tools

V.E.R.A. project

WATER: Improvement of water efficiency, management, and quality/quantity; CITY SUSTAINABILITY: Improving adaptation capacity, and urban planning and resilience, Promot...

Droughts

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Irriframe-Acquacampus

Maximizing irrigation efficiency is recognized as a key priority for optimizing water resources management. Irrinet-Irriframe is an IT-tool to deliver irrigation sched...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

EVAPO-CONTROL

Reduction of water losses in drought-prone regions

Droughts

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

RichWater

In recent years a growing concern has been expressed throughout the EU regarding water scarcity and the significant impacts on water resources by agricultural activiti...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Technology

SkyDowser

Climate change is un undeniable fact to which we, as mankind, have to find ways to adapt. To a large extent this change relates to water. In case of extreme weather, w...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

Solar desalination solutions – Elemental Water Makers

Already 4 billion people face water scarcity today. Freshwater scarcity is increasing due to growing population & water footprint and climate change. The key to mo...

Droughts

Energy Coastal areas Water management

Technology

Useful Wastes: Brine transformation to circular economy

Nowadays, many sectors of the industry need high quality water. For this reason industries (chemistry, pharma, food industry, etc) apply reverse osmosis to the running...

Droughts

Water management

Technology

PAS-WATER

PAS-WATER is a comprehensive diagnosis and analysis framework aiming to facilitate an improved water harvesting system at basin or sub-basin scale. This is based on pa...

Droughts

Financial Water management

Models and tools

Bufferblock

Due to climate change, more and more heavy rainfalls will occur and many cities are now facing the problems of streets being flooded because of the stormwater. Our inn...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

CENTAUR

Due to urban spread and more intense rainfall, water infrastructure is often unable to convey flows during rainfall leading to flash flooding and pollution. The usual ...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Models and tools

GM4W – GeoGuard Module for Water vapor monitoring

Monitoring the temporal and spatial variability of precipitable water vapour (PWV) at a local scale is important to improve the probabilistic nowcasting and forecastin...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Models and tools

Helsinki’s stormwater filtration unit

Urban floods are identified as one of Helsinki’s most important climate hazards. Coupled with population growth and densifying urban structure, flood risk is likely to...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Engineering and built environment

NEFOCAST

In spite of the variety of existing methods to measure precipitation, the retrieval of rainfall fields is still a matter of research, because of the high number of app...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Rainwater in kindergarten

Water management is an important issue in urban design due to the growing concern of water scarcity. Rainfall patterns are likely to change in the future as a conseque...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Engineering and built environment

Roads for Water

The impact of roads on landscapes and surface hydrology is now often negative. Roads cause erosion. They trigger sedimentation and cause local flooding. Road bodies ar...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Engineering and built environment

Seed blanket for Extensive Green Roofs

Green roofs provide many benefits, e.g. storm water runoff reduction; increase insulation properties; reduce heat island effect through evapotranspiration. Although mo...

Heavy Precipitation

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Engineering and built environment

Self-erecting flood protection system

In case of sudden floods litlle time may be available to prevent damage. The presented flood protection system is self-erecting and does not depend on electricity or m...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

SenZ2 wireless level radar transmitter

Monitoring water system infrastructures in real-time, and in high resolution, is very important to provide early warnings in cases of floods and to eventually understa...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Models and tools

Smart blue-green roof system

Heavy precipitation / pluvial floods: rainfall events that result in 1) (urban) floods due to exceedance of: drainage capacity, and 2) flash floods, defined as rapid f...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Urban flood hazard analysis

Climate change will lead to more extreme precipitation events for many cities in the world. In support of climate adaptation planning, there is a need for a flood haza...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Urban flood nowcasting system

Cities are becoming more vulnerable to flooding because of rapid urbanization and increasing rainfall extremes due to climate change. There is an increasing need for f...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

Models and tools

URBRAIN

The traditional urban planning and stormwater management can no longer respond to high intensity rain events (climate change) and for sustainable development alternati...

Heavy Precipitation

Transport Water management

Models and tools

WaterView – IR2

Today precipitation is monitored by combining terrestrial systems, weather radars and satellite images. The quality of today's precipitation mapping is yet to be satis...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

SCAN

A tool to evaluate and optimize water management and climate adaptation strategies at the scale of an integrated water system

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Bluebloqs

Urban areas are increasingly facing urban flooding due to larger peaks of rainfall, and water shortage due to longer periods of drought. Replacing and upgrading the cu...

Multi-hazards

Transport Water management

Engineering and built environment

EWB Fire Water

Climate change leads to more extreme weather. Urban areas experience more floods due to heavy rainfalls and a decreased buffer capacity (due to an increase of hardened...

Multi-hazards

Transport Water management

Engineering and built environment

Recycle – Porous and Permeable Pavement Block

Recycle solves the problems connected to soil sealing, allowing the exchange of water and heat through its surface. Its permeability enhances water infiltration in the...

Multi-hazards

Water management

Engineering and built environment

Dike Profile Generator

Under the Dutch Water Act water managers are required to assess the flood probability of the primary flood defences every 12 years. The Dike Profile Generator supports...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

All4Elevation

Flooding kills more than 6000 people every year, leaves millions of people homeless and causes more than $60 billion in annual damages. Flood predictions help reduce t...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Spatial Processes in HYdrology (SPHY)

Many hydrological models exist nowadays provide us with answers to questions focusing on the impact of climate change, droughts, flooding, water availability, glacier ...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

SLAMDAM®

SLAMDAM® is a temporary flood defender filled with water. A stable base to fight flooding with water.

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Technology

Floating cities with positive impact

Multi-hazards

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Engineering and built environment

Polderroof

Heavy rainfall events are occurring more frequent and are becoming more intense due to climate change. In dense city areas with a large share of hard surfaces (roads, ...

Multi-hazards

Buildings Water management

Engineering and built environment

Green-skin permeable system for urban rainwater management

The increase of the human population, its concentration in the cities and the urban expansion is promoting the waterproofing of large areas of soil which generate impo...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Draining pavement to support transit traffic and displace storm peak

The new BREINCO's draining pavement, which is able to support transit traffic by regular cars, allows to retain over 10 cm of water per square meter promoting runoff p...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

Engineering and built environment

NoFloods mobile barrier

Quick and reliable solution for protection of people, critical infrastructure and the environment during flooding and natural disasters.

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Drone+LiDAR for emergency response

Updated, detailed information and data acquisition on the displacement and location of flood defences is essential in emergency situations. To protect and maintain the...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Governance and social innovations

Futureproof peat meadow polder

Peat meadow areas have to deal with soil subsidence and high emissions of carbon dioxide, because of the oxidation of the organic peat soil. The area also has to deal ...

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation River floods

Water management

Technology

MyFloodRisk (for business)

In the EU many businesses are at risk of floods. Although information is available such as the EU Flood Directive maps, these maps are based on various methodologies a...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Education

FlooDrought

In the last years, climate change has led to increasing disturbance of the water balance – mainly consisting in an increase of flooding events and at the same time, in...

Multi-hazards

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Models and tools

SolarDew

Pollution, climate change and population growth are expected to affect 5 billion people by 2050. Today, 850 million people have to worry about how they are going to pr...

Multi-hazards

Water management

Technology

Danube Living Labs Pilot application Potelu Living Lab Romania

While at the Danube basin scale strategies create a sustainable framework for action, acknowledging and managing water related risks at local level is generally a majo...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Financial Water management

Governance and social innovations

Water management

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