STEPWISE Science, Technology and Policy Interfacing using WISE-RTD
Country: EU Projects
Start Date:   1/1/2011         Duration: 24 months         Project Type: Acompanying Measure
Contract Number: 265308
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Diffuse pollution-->Diffuse pollution overview
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview
Water resources and their management -->Costs, benefits and sustainability
Water resources and their management -->Monitoring and mitigation
Water resources and their management -->River basin management
Water resources and their management -->River basins
Water resources and their management -->Stresses, quality and ecological status
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
Project objectives: 
The WISE-RTD Web Portal has already been implemented to serve as a dissemination tool, linking diverse EC Water Framework Directive policy aspects to FP RTD 
(and LIFE) results, thus bridging the science policy gap in information exchange. Amendment of WISE-RTD to include also other (EC) Directives that relate 
to water policies will expand the current set of intricate algorithms that define science-policy interactions. In addition, the WISE-RTD structure will 
be expanded with environmental technologies focusing on water. FP (and LIFE) funded environmental research projects and results with high EU added value 
will be identified and selected using preset criteria
Project Summary: 
By uploading these projects/RTD results using a dedicated tool WPIS (Web Portal Input System) to the WISE-RTD Web Portal, the information automatically become 
linked to the diverse sets of policy instruments. The WISE-RTD Web Portal will be used to evaluate whether policy questions have been answered by the RTD outcome 
(top down, scientific support to policy), and whether needs from identified stakeholders, e.g. from the environmental water technologies sector, are covered 
by policy issues (bottom-up). Merging of these two approaches will form the gap-analysis, recommendations towards a better uptake of FP environmental RTD 
results with tangible impact on economic growth and social welfare. The policy and science related contents of WISE-RTD, and the two-way gap analyses will 
form the basis for dissemination using different user-friendly media. Innovative dissemination tools and activities will direct to different audiences/stakeholders 
at targeted national and/or international level including policy makers, researchers and industries.
Achieved Objectives:
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Additional Information:
Project Resources:
Weblink:
http://www.spi-water.eu/index.cgi?s_id=56
Funding Programme(s): 
EC FP7: Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
Link to Organisations:
Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  25/08/2011 16:56:00