Innovative water governance practices - Insights from Horizon Europe projects
The Europe-INBO conference held next week in Bordeaux, France, will again host a workshop dedicated to water governance innovations. . The GOVAQUA project is one of the organizers of the workshop. The workshop will be held on Monday, 7 October 2024, from 9:30 to 12:00 at the Cité Mondiale Congress Center.
Participants of this workshop will learn about innovative water governance practices from three sister projects. The workshop will also present an assesment tool developed in GOVAQUA project and lessons learnt from applying it by the Living lab partners. Over all, the workshop will discuss various governance innovation cases and provide tools, for example, to better govern the problems related to water protection and restoration or sustainable water use.
GOVAQUA has also published a new Policy brief for the event: Building water resilience: towards better implementation of ecological flows and water allocation in Europe
The workshop is targeted to experts and specialists working in basin management and in the implementation of the European Union’s Water Framework Directive, its “Daughter Directives,” and other related regulations.
The workshop is organized by the WaterGovernance 2027 synergy group. The group includes three research and innovation projects funded under the Horizon Europe programme by the European Commission: GOVAQUA, InnWater and RETOUCH NEXUS.
Europe-INBO 2024 International Conferences for the Implementation of the European Union water directives
7–10 October 2024
Bordeaux, France
More information at the conference website