about

Long-term climate change, extreme events, and seasonal variations in weather have profound impacts on water quality of rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.

Predecting climate forecasting

This implies a pressing need for tools anticipating the impacts of these environmental changes, and enabling effective water management that safeguards the ecosystem goods and services freshwaters provide. The increasing availability of new meteorological data products and advances in modelling tools now mean that it is possible for the first time to produce reliable forecasts for lake and river water quality on a regional and global scale, an unexploited potential in the water sector.

Water managers will therefore profit from the education of a new generation of interdisciplinary trained professionals able to bridge fields such as data science, climate, hydrology, and freshwater ecology, who at the same time develop the necessary skills to translate knowledge and technical novelties into products useful for managers, policy-makers, and the general public.

water quality moels

The primary objective of inventWater is to organize a platform providing cutting edge cross disciplinary education of tomorrow’s water quality experts

The core activity is the training program, focused on the development and real-world application of inventive water quality forecasting tools across a range of time-scales, to support fast and reliable decision making as well as longterm adaptation policies.

The composition of the network and the multidisciplinary of the PhD projects will make tools developed by inventWater fellows applicable to a wide range of pressing water quality issues, from local adaptation to increases of climatic extreme events, to supporting adaptation strategies to climate change and achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Total Cost:

4 021 497.72€

 

EU contribution:

4 021 497.72€

 

Coordinated in:

Spain

Topic(s):

MSCA-ITN-2020 – Innovative Training Networks

 

Call for proposal:

H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 See other projects for this call

 

Funding scheme:

MSCA-ITN-ETN – European Training Network

Coordinator

Icra Institut Català de Recerca de l'Aigua

ICRA – Catalan Institute for Water Research
www.icra.cat

Beneficiaries

Aarhus

Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk

Dundalk

Dundalk Institute of Technology
www.dkit.ie

Helmholtz

Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research
www.ufz.de

Iiasa

Internationales Institut fuer Angewandte Systemanalyse
iiasa.ac.at

 

RUB

Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de

University of stirling

The University of Stirling
www.stir.ac.uk

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
www.vub.be

Wageningen

Wageningen University
www.wur.nl

UCC

University College Cork
www.ucc.ie

Partners

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
www.pik-potsdam.de

Unesco

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
en.unesco.org

ATL

Ens d’Abastament d’Aigua del Ter i del Llobregat
www.atl.cat

Climate Analytics

Climate Analytics GMBH climateanalytics.org

Ruhrverband

Ruhrverband
www.ruhrverband.de

The water forum

An Fóram Uisce
thewaterforum.ie

Love every drop

Anglian Water www.anglianwater.co.uk

foras na mara marine institute

Marine Institute
www.marine.ie

uppsala universitet

Uppsala University
www.uu.se

Universitat de Barcelona

University of Barcelona
www.ub.edu/web/portal/ca

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech
vt.edu

Nioo

Netherlands Institute of Ecology
nioo.knaw.nl

 

Universitat de Girona

University of Girona
www.udg.edu

DCU

Dublin City University
www.dcu.ie

Universiteit Utrecht

Utrecht University
www.uu.nl

eawag

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
www.eawag.ch/en