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FP 7
Climate
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Water

Sharing Water-related Information to Tackle CHanges in the Hydrosphere – for Operational Needs (SWITCH-ON)

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Water touches virtually all societal and environmental domains. The knowledge domain is largely multidisciplinary. New water information and knowledge can thus lead to more efficient use of environmental services and better handling of environmental problems, including those posed by climate and environmental change.

The project SWITCH-ON explores and exploits the currently untapped potential of open environmental data to address water issues. Water information is of interest to many kinds of end-users, both within government and business as well as within civil society. SWITCH-ON will show the benefits achieved through the whole process chain. The project aims at re-purposing (re-using under different context) open data products into more water-dedicated and refined products. Those are considered to have high value and a broad impact on society.

Objectives

The main vision of the project is to ensure sustainable use of water resources and improve resilience to water related hazards. This should be reached through better governance, smart regulation, improved public services, efficient decision-making and business growth. This is based on new forms of collaborative research and innovative products and services.

SWITCH-ON aims to use open data for the implementation of:

  1. an innovative spatial information platform with open data tailored for direct water assessments,
  2. an entirely new form of collaborative research for water-related sciences,
  3. fourteen new operational products and services dedicated to appointed end-users,
  4. new businesses and knowledge to inform individual and collective decisions in line with Europe’s smart growth and environmental objectives.

While focusing on water, the project is expected to inspire a much broader knowledge domain and many different end-users to better address environmental and societal challenges through openness and collaboration.

Ecologic Institute in SWITCH-ON

Ecologic Institute leads work package 5 (WP5). WP5 will ensure that SWITCH-ON products enter new markets and have strong societal impacts in the areas of governance and different business sectors. It aims to analyse information availability (open data) for the information needs of different users, i.e., policy-makers, environmental managers, businesses and citizens. WP5 will analyse legislative, technical and market-based barriers to a greater exploitation of the products and provide business plans for opportunities in new markets across Europe.

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Main Link
SWITCH-ON Project website
Related Articles
  • Framework for Judging Market Potential of Information Products
  • SWITCH-ON Opening Europe to the World to Achieve Sustainability
  • SWITCH-ON – Making Open Innovation a Reality
  • The SWITCH-ON Market Analysis Framework
  • The SWITCH-ON Virtual Water Science Laboratory

Funding
European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation)
Partner
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
Partner
Ecologic Institute, Germany
University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
cismet, Germany
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands
Deltares, Netherlands
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Italy
GECOsistema - Geographic Environmental Consulting (GECOsistema), Italy
Dipl.-Ing. Günter Humer, Austria
HKV Consultants, Netherlands
Jeremy Benn Associates, JBA Consulting (JBA Consulting), United Kingdom
Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria
Linköping University (LiU), Sweden
EMVIS Consultant Engineers (EMVIS), Greece
Team
Dr. Ulf Stein
Team
Gerardo Anzaldúa
Rodrigo Vidaurre
Sabine Lund
Anouk Vieveen
Evelyn Lukat
Monica Ridgway
Assoc. Prof. Tanja Srebotnjak, PhD
Albrecht Gradmann
Ansel Olive Klein
Mira Wenzel
Duration
November 2013 to October 2017
Project ID
2732
Keywords
Open data, water, global change, application (apps), research, GIS, Market analysis, Qualitative empirical research, Policy analysis, Europe, Global

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