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Towards a Roadmap for the Uptake of EU Water Research in Policy and Industry

Towards a Roadmap for the Uptake of EU Water Research in Policy and Industry. Claire McCAMPHILL DG Environment – Unit D1 – Protection of Water Resources. Main questions posed by the event. - How to get policy makers involved in the scientific process to serve water policy's needs?

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Towards a Roadmap for the Uptake of EU Water Research in Policy and Industry

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  1. Towards a Roadmap for the Uptake of EU Water Research in Policy and Industry Claire McCAMPHILL DG Environment – Unit D1 – Protection of Water Resources

  2. Main questions posed by the event - How to get policy makers involved in the scientific process to serve water policy's needs? - How to promote coordination and collaboration of research and technology development in the water industry? - How to facilitate the water knowledge transfer at all EU-levels (EU, states, regional, local)? - How to facilitate water management and innovation to meet societal needs? • I will attempt to draw from my UK and EU experience in answering these questions

  3. How to get policy makers involved in the scientific process to serve water policy's needs? • - make it a policy makers job to know what the current state of the evidence base is and how this is being applied in the delivery of policy (accountability, list in objectives) • - get ministers interested • - deploy "translators" (who speak both policy and science) throughout ministries • - recruit scientists into policy making roles • -include in performance indicators/appraisal

  4. How to promote coordination and collaboration of research and technology development in the water industry? • - make funding dependent on collaboration • eg : DTC "platform" £6 m and over 30 researchers , trialling innovative monitoring kit and stakeholder participation • : all participants learn from each other • - ask specific questions that require research and industry to work together on to produce answers

  5. How to facilitate the water knowledge transfer at all EU-levels (EU, states, regional, local)? • - 1st- map the knowledge network as it is (gaps) • - identify the inefficiencies with the status quo (eg significant agriculture spend on r&d and little progress, gaps in the RBMPs (pressures and measures) • - recruit people to fill the gaps – systems thinkers, natural collaborators & communicators • Key roles: horizon scanning, understand delivery, understand policy drivers • and the key intermediaries that make the network work (from local to national level) • -

  6. A demanding but vital role

  7. How to facilitate water management and innovation to meet societal needs? • - Clearly define societal needs • - white papers etc should set out a clear problem to solve and a clear direction • - research funders should show how they can contribute….eg research funding in UK has to show policy impact • - involve social scientists more in interdisciplinary research (good example is RELU)

  8. Concluding remarks - There are many good practice tools and good examples - However it needs to be mainstreamed to be more effective - Embed within (often unclear) policy and science Governance (– how does knowledge flow and who makes the decision on this knowledge? - Needs high level champions – eg science, innovation or finance ministries to encourage and reward change

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