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NEWAVE · Next Water Governance

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-11-01 → 2024-04-30
EU contribution
€4,039,273
Participants
10
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

Next Water Governance

‘NEWAVE – Next Water Governance’ is a EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN), which departs from the notion that the global debate about water governance needs a reset, and aims to point the way forward. The project aims to train a new generation of 15 water governance Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) with fundamental knowledge, advanced skills, and adequate tools to address current and future water governance challenges. The project is rooted in the conviction that the rising threats of future water crises and hydro-social challenges present an urgent need to enhance the global capacity to reflect critically on the current water governance trajectory. In that light, NEWAVE aims at developing and implementing a cutting-edge actionable research agenda on the key water governance priorities and insights for future directions, from a global perspective. NEWAVE counts on the exceptional and diversified experience of its transnational network of academic and non-academic organisations. The training programme provides an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach that exposes its Early Stage Researchers to the latest scientific concepts and methodologies from fundamental to applied research. Because of its excellent design, NEWAVE helps to recognize and avoid the traps in the current debate on water governance, such as panacea thinking, the disregard of institutional contexts, and the neglect of politics or normative considerations such as justice and equity. NEWAVE thus presents an opportunity to make a step change in an salient societal debate in Europe, and far beyond, and is designed to leave a strong legacy in terms of networks, insights and skills acquired.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The NEWAVE project departs from the notion that the global debate about water governance needs a reset, and aims to point the way forward. It does so by developing research and training for a new generation of future water governance leaders, and by equipping them with the transdisciplinary skills to better tackle water challenges. The central organizing framework in NEWAVE is formed by the “three Ps” – which reflects the insight that future water governance leaders should have a deep and transdisciplinary understanding of 1) Problématiques - the nature of nowadays water challenges; 2) Paradigms – the ideational underpinnings of current approaches to water governance; and 3) Patterns – the way in which newly proposed approaches interact with existing institutions. NEWAVE proposes cutting edge research on all these aspects from a global perspective, a highly sophisticated training program to teach the required skills to analyze these issues in a reflexive way and to come up with recommendations about them, and a close collaboration with several of the most prominent players in the water governance debate. NEWAVE will not only be active in Europe, but will additionally target the water governance debate in a carefully selected number of emerging economies and developing countries, and has the right partners on board to do so. Because of its excellent design, NEWAVE will help to recognize and avoid the traps in the current debate on water governance, such as panacea thinking, the disregard of institutional contexts, and the neglect of politics or normative considerations such as justice and equity. NEWAVE thus presents an opportunity to make a step change in an salient societal debate in Europe, and far beyond, and is designed to leave a strong legacy in terms of networks, insights and skills acquired.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • STICHTING VU · AmsterdamCoordinatorNetherlands
  • ARCADIS NEDERLAND BV · AmersfoortNetherlands
  • FUNDACION NUEVA CULTURA DEL AGUA · ZaragozaSpain
  • INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT · MarseilleFrance
  • LEUPHANA UNIVERSITAT LUNEBURG · LUNEBURGGermany
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoItaly
  • SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI · NairobiKenya

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union