Water smart industrial symbiosis
ULTIMATE aims to create economic value and increase sustainability by valorising resources within the water cycle.
Wastewater plays a key role both as a reusable resource but also as a carrier for energy and materials to be extracted, treated, stored and reused within a dynamic socio-economic and business oriented industrial ecosystem.
Reuse wastewater
Exploit energy
Recover Materials
Marketplace and Technology Evidence Base (TEB) for Circular Economy
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News
Making Waves – Immersive stakeholder engagement for sustainable societies: the water-smart cities example
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Stakeholder engagement is key for societal impact of EU-funded inter- and trans-disciplinary research projects
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New app Water-kennis allows users to interactively raise their water awareness
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Third Community of Practice (CoP) meeting called “WATER↔ENERGY” by Aqualia
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Learning about wastewater via Immersive Media Experiences in Kalundborg, Denmark
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Collaboration of Water Stakeholders in Living Labs to Boost Innovations
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9 demosites
ULTIMATE will implement Water Smart Industrial Symbiosis in nine large-scale business cases from the international agro-food, petrochemical and biotech sector.
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ULTIMATE's STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
LIVING LABS
Implementing the Innovation
Building a support system in practice. Scale impact, create sustainable strategies and actionable goals through innovation, capacity development, and market outreach
COMMUNITY of PRACTICE (CoP)
Integration and Peer Knowledge
Learning with peers and experts
Involving domain-specific stakeholders and experts with various hands-on experiences
CO-CREATION
Play & Community Engagement
Learning by doing and reflection
Involving local communities and general public to co-innovate by allowing them to
reflect on the processes and finding new solutions to challenges
PLAYBOOK
Multi-use Playspaces
Learning beyond
Formulating human-centered approaches, methodologies, tools, and interventions to guide and motivate people to do things, disseminate, use and re-use information in a new way
Immersive Narrative / Art and Technology Interventions in 3 Case Studies