Looking back at 2024…
- Our research teams on legal and regulatory approaches, participatory and collaborative approaches, economic and financial instruments and digital solutions for information sharing have completed their comprehensive reviews and are currently busy with case study analyses and comparisons
- Our Living Labs in Finland, France, Romania, Spain and the UK have started their active stakeholder engagement and co-creation, applying the GOVAQUA Assessment tool for water governance innovations with local partners to reach a shared understanding of the challenges at hand and the desired future states, and agreed on innovative practices to be further experimented with
- We have launched our first digital tool with the lead of the UK CEH and the Rivers Trust https://oxfordrivers.ceh.ac.uk/ , providing past and current data on river conditions in the Oxford area
- We have had excellent discussions with our audiences in our WaterGovernance2025 Synergy Group webinar in the EU Green Week, INBO World General Assembly in Bordeaux, Alliance for Water Stewardship Global Forum in Edinburgh, Water4All consultative workshop and special session in the IAHR Conference in Lisbon, among others
- We’ve launched two policy briefs to support the EU Water Resilience Strategy development
In 2025, we look forward to sharing more publications, completing our case study analyses and systematic comparison, diving deeper into experimentation in the Living Labs, EURO-INBO in Parma, and starting building our recommendations on transition pathways and good practices for sustainable and equitable water governance in Europe.
Many thanks for your collaboration and happy holidays!
GOVAQUA Team
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