Acting 4 Water:
Tackling water scarcity by using advanced technologies
in business-academia-society cooperation.
About Acting4Water
The project aims to promote social innovation and entrepreneurship in water management through advanced technologies in harvesting and desalination practices. Acting4Water partners will develop educational resources and activities to raise awareness and address water scarcity through business-academia synergies. In particular, the project focuses on integrating citizen science in university courses regarding water scarcity as a means of encouraging civic engagement and advocacy.
The Acting4Water project is structured on an innovative business-academia-society cooperation to offer a multidimensional open training programme to academic communities as well as to the general public. Acting4Water aims to enhance education related to water scarcity, and will this conduct a landscape analysis of the existing training practices to identify their effectiveness and explore emerging new directions.
In summary, Acting4 Water intends to address the following primary needs:
- Raising awareness on water scarcity, a less known, although significant environmental problem.
- Higher Education-curricula update on water scarcity: the problem and its solutions as a step towards offering a more inclusive education on climate change and its side-effects.
- Civic engagement in climate change issues, particularly water scarcity.
- The development of interdisciplinary HE curricula for dealing with complex future problems.
- Knowledge exchange among Higher Education institutions.
Partners
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (NL, coordinator); University of the Aegean (GR); University of Girona (ES); University of Ljubljana (SI); Centre of Expertise Water Technology (CEW) (NL); Web2Learn (GR).