Open call with SSH aspects “Water for Circular Economy”
Published on: 01/10/2024
Deadline:
Deadline for pre-proposals submission: 13 November 2024, 15:00 CET
Deadline for full proposals submission: 29 April 2025, 15:00 CEST
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Call text
Short Call Abstract:
The call aims to deliver new solutions to develop new circular feedstocks and value chains, increase water resource efficiency, improve water allocation, and optimize water use in water-dependent sectors.
Proposals are required to address at least one of the following topics:
- Enhancement of water circularity in industries:*
- introducing innovative paradigms and methodologies for transitioning sectors towards circular economy models and decoupling production and water demand. This may include strategies to achieve zero liquid discharge and resource recovery
- development of innovative monitoring procedures for process control and development of operating concepts and metrics for efficient water cycle management, compliance with regulation and standards, economic valuation, and risk assessment
- Urban water circularity
- Resource recovery and valorization:*
- assessing the applicability of recovered materials for various uses, considering emerging standards and regulations for resource recovery, business models and the Life Cycle Analysis of the recovered materials across the value chain.
- Economic, environmental and social implications of water reuse and recovered products
- identifying and assessing economic and social aspects collectively influencing stakeholders’ awareness, market confidence and acceptance, social acceptance, opportunities, drivers and barriers to the creation and adoption of solutions for water reuse and resource recovery and reuse.
- developing management strategies, policy options, steering mechanisms and governance systems that facilitate the integration of circularity methodologies into existing water management frameworks while addressing economic and social concerns.
Proposals should take into consideration a better understanding of the socio-economic and human well-being aspects influencing the social and governance barriers that prevent or delay adoption and implementation of solutions and new paradigms, including a focus on how to overcome them.
*Selected topics, for full list of topics see the call text
SSH aspects:
Political science, Sociology, Economics, Law, Anthropology, Etichs, Psychology
Specific participation requirements:
Participants are subject to the eligibility criteria of national/regional funding organisations, in addition to the general eligibility criteria of the call.
The detailed lists of eligibility and evaluation criteria is published in the Water4All Call Announcement document.
This call include an additional call modality aiming at Early Career Researchers holding a PhD since less than 10 years. More information in the Call Announcement document.
Countries:
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom.
More information in the ANNEX A.
