Webinar on Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment

Open call for innovation challenges on water quality monitoring and assessment
14 - 16 Jun 2023
UTC+01:00
World Meteorological Organisation
Ispra, Italy

The Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment, organized by World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA), co-organized with and supported by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will take place on 14 – 16 June 2023, in a hybrid format at JRC (Ispra, Italy). 

The key focus areas of the workshop are:

  • crowdsourcing for water quality monitoring and assessment (including associated uncertainties);
  • acceptance and integration of water quality data from non-traditional data sources (e.g., citizen science, remote sensing, modelling);
  • low-cost methodologies to monitor and assess water quality;
  • integrated spatial, geophysical, and ground measurement to monitor and assess water quality;
  • methods of data exploration and visualization.

 

The workshop will include presentations, pitches and/or panel discussions on the operational challenges and needs as well as existing and potential innovative approaches and solutions. The workshop will also include collaborative working sessions aiming at: 

  • refining and narrowing down the challenges selected through this Call; 
  • exploring and defining innovative ideas and solutions to address these challenges; 
  • exploring and defining a way forward for the implementation of the identified innovative ideas and solutions. 

 

Open Call for Innovation Challenges on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment

In this “Open Call for Innovation Challenges”, WMO is soliciting proposals for challenges to be put forward at the workshop, in order to accelerate innovation in water quality monitoring and assessment.

The deadline for the submission of the proposals is the 31 March 2023.

 

Event Themes

Understanding operational challenges and needs in water quality data collection, management and use
Identifying and promoting innovative approaches and technologies for water quality data collection, management and use
Supporting private sector (solution providers) to tailor their solutions to operational realities
Helping academia to direct research towards the most pertinent topics where pragmatic solutions are concerned
Identifying and promoting innovative approaches and tools that increase data uptake and use
Venue

European Commission's Joint Research Centre
via Enrico Fermi, 2749
21027 Ispra VA
Italy