Testing and improvement of innovationsOverview of innovations selected
cycles 1, 2 and 3

Evapo Control Lorca, Spain

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Reduction of water losses in drought-prone regions.

Droughts

HYDROVENTIV Moisy, France

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Heavy precipitation / pluvial floods: rainfall events that result in 1) (urban) floods due to exceedance of: drainage capacity, and 2) flash floods, defined as rapid flooding of low-lying areas, generally within a few hours after heavy rainfall events such as thunderstorms.

Heavy Precipitation

ARIEL Barcelona, Spain

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High-resolution monitoring of soil moisture at the land surface level.

Droughts

Water from Heaven Netherlands

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Reduction of water losses in drought-prone regions.

Droughts

SCAN Leuven, Belgium

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A tool to evaluate and optimize water management strategies in the scope of climate change and other trends (such as the increasing urbanization, population growth and water demand.

Multi Hazard

TubeBarrier Gouda, Netherlands

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In case of a flood threat due to extreme precipitation and/or high river discharges, rising water levels may exceed to capacity of flood prevention systems such as dikes and urban drainage. In those cases emergency measures must be taken swiftly, for instance by deploying a temporary flood prevention system.

River Floods

eEM-DAT Leuven, Belgium

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A tool that used a standardised and structured method to collect, validate and analyse climate-related disaster impact data. This leads to an evidence base for the development of disaster risk reduction policy.

Multi-hazard

MyFloodRisk (for business) Delft, Netherlands

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HKV has transformed the data from the EU RAIN project to provide location based flood risk profiles showing flood probability against flood depth for different climate scenarios at any given location in the EU. This information can be used by companies to assess their flood risk and the costs and benefits of flood protection measures.

Multi-hazard

ThirdEye: Flying Sensors to support farmers’ decision making Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Flying Sensors, sometimes referred to as drones, provide high resolution information on crop status. This innovation provides this information at: (i) an ultra-high spatial resolution, (ii) an unprecedentedly flexibility in location and timing, (iii) a spectrum outside the human eye.

Drought

Water+ Furrow Diker Bucharest, Romania

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The Water+ Furrow Diker is an innovative equipment which allows for the maximization of the collection and harvesting of rainfall water and irrigation drainage at the root plant zone.

Drought

GM4W – GeoGuard Module for Water vapor monitoring Lomazzo, Italy

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GM4W provides new technology for the reliable and continuous water vapour monitoring with high horizontal resolution. It is based on low-cost single-frequency Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers.

Heavy precipitation

Active Eco-Wildfire Management System Vila-Real, Portugal

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Innovative method to planning and execution of Strategic Forest Fuel Management and Prescribed Burning techniques in forests to reduce risk of wildfire.

Wildfire

FireAd (Fire Risk Monitor Advisor) Lisboa, Portugal

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The innovation FireAd is an ITC-desk solution able to regularly advice to forest and fire managers on windows of opportunity for forest management practices aiming at reducing the risk of wildfires.

Wildfire

OBREC Caserta, Italy

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The OBREC device consists of a concrete top element, which can be installed in new or existing breakwater, e.g. during maintenance operations.

Coastal Floods

InfoSequía Cartagena, Spain

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A web-mapping service for the operational monitoring of droughts and the assessment of their impacts.

Drought

Blue Bloqs Delft, Netherlands

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They provide municipalities with a compact and circular system to sustainably manage urban surface run-off.

Multi Hazard

Paint your city green!-3 Kessel, Belgium

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Pre-fabricated plant pit realised with 4 hollow concrete curbstones, which can buffer net 200 litres of water.

Extreme weather

URBRAIN Romania

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URBRAIN consists of techniques and methods for rainwater management in the perspective of urban climate change adaptation. It provides a common approach between urban planners, civil engineers and geoscientists. So far, components of “Green Infrastructure” (“rainwater ponds”, “bioswales” etc.) identified by international research projects have been studied mostly individually. There is clearly a need for a model that uses these components globally, in a system, applicable at the city scale.

Heavy Precipitation

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The Multiflexmeter offers a cheap solution that allows to set up such a realtime monitoring network.

Droughts

This technology generates new water resources for irrigation from the treatment of agro-industrial wastewaters through the usage of a holistic nature-sourced technology which combines a nanocomposite clarification-sedimentation system for the TSS removal, aerated bio-reactors for the COD and nutrient removal, and halophyte-zeolite wetlands for the sodium removal.

Droughts

The Natural Biological System (NBS™) is the energy-free sewage treatment technology.

Droughts

The ARTYS Smart Rainfall System (SRS) is an innovative rainfall and flood risk monitoring system. The rainfall maps are provided in real-time with an high spatial resolution taking advantage of ICT technologies and a network of low-cost rainfall sensors deployed in the monitored territory. The rainfall now-casting system allows a short-term prediction of the flood scenarios thanks to a dedicated runoff model and the web-GIS platform displays risk maps with a one-minute refreshing time.

Heavy Precipitation

The innovation is built around WaterView’s patented technology IR2 that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision techniques to turn imaging devices, like surveillance IP cameras and smartphone cameras, into “eyes” for seeing, gauging and returning real time precipitation measures (rain, hail, snow).

Heavy Precipitation

EFESTO is an artificial intelligence system, mounted on a drone, that carries out continuous aerial monitoring of forest areas. It is able to predict the development of fires and intercept them. It can send alerts about hazardous situations by sending images and GPS coordinates directly to the smartphone of rescuers and law enforcement.

Wildfires

System for early warning and monitoring composed by: on site sensors (e.g. along a river); an automated application framework to provide warning system features; fitted for communication with deployable system like drones that can perform a variety of monitoring tasks providing data to the application framework.

River Floods

The methodology will include a framework for action plans and illustrations of the methodology in one or more study cases. The action plan will include: description of conditions (hydrological, topographic, geotechnical data), potential causes of dike failure, and hypotheses about possible damages to dikes. The hypotheses will be based on the size of the flood, the area in which the dike is prone to failure and the size of the breach.

River Floods

The Toolkit Method is a GIS-based evaluation method which requires a set of inputs about the urban area which is expected to be evaluated. These inputs include: DTM, buildings & streets map, utility network map and a flooding map. The user can sketch different intervention scenarios by applying a set of tools which include general design strategies and more detailed solutions represented by specific protection measures. Each of them can be then evaluated and compared against alternatives.

Multi-hazard

IRRINET-IRRIFRAME is an expert system for irrigation backed by the results of more than 50 years of research on sustainable irrigation. It processes several data bases and develops irrigation schedules that are available through different communication channels. Its main feature is the real-time irrigation scheduling, i.e. daily information on how much and when to irrigate. During the period 2007-2013, the IRRINET-IRRIFRAME system allowed to save more than 50 millions of m3 of water in the Emilia Romagna region (Italy).

Droughts

The presented flood protection system is self-erecting and does not depend on electricity or manpower to get in a vertical position. When there is no flooding the concrete elements are in a horizontal position.

Heavy Precipitation

Runoff water contaminated with heavy metals, mineral oils, etc. is treated and stored underground, making it available for reuse in all kinds of applications (extinguishing water for the fire-departments, irrigation, process water, etc.), while saving money on drinking water.

Multi-hazards

An underground soil moisture sensor connected to the cloud.

Droughts

Leaf.skin is an ultralight vertical garden system that can be placed where no other vertical garden systems can be. Leaf.skin is composed by an anti-root waterproof membrane, a technical fabric as a planting support, adhered substrate and seeds with an only 5mm thickness. The installation process is similar to an advertising canvas installation. It is low cost, ultralight and ultrathin solution, of easier and faster installation than other commercial solutions.

Heatwaves

Alma Raingarden is a pre-fabricated raingarden that can be used to handle runoff water from roofs and open spaces.

Heavy Precipitation

Natural Water Retention through restoration of the ‘sponge’ function of currently drained soils in the middle-mountains of the Rhine basin is a locally applied nature-based solution to flood mitigation with potential impacts at basin scale. We argue that the benefits of the proposed solution are not only local, but will also favour end-users further downstream. This solution fits a systems approach and contributes to achieve water, agriculture and nature policy objectives as well as delivering societal benefits such as recreation and carbon capture.

River Floods

As recent events in Albania’s neighbour country Greece show, wildfires can be unpredictable and spread in urban areas causing serious damages. In these cases natural fibre blankets have the disadvantage that in sunny periods the fibres quickly become dry and can catch fire by just a cigarette.

Wildfires

RichWater is a modular technology reclaiming water from domestic/urban wastewater for combined irrigation and fertlisation purpose.

Droughts

Aims to prevent flooding by planting techniques that are environmentally friendly. It focuses on two alternative solutions.

River Floods

Flip-Flap Cofferdam is designed to prevent floods in urban areas. It can be used as boardwalk (walkway) around the clock. When flood emergency arises it is raised in vertical position and locked into the concrete gutter. In this position it acts just like a regular flood protection wall. Material is PVC sheet piles.

River Floods

PAS-WATER is a flexible toolkit and consultancy service. It works on different spatial scales and develops iterative diagnosis cycles to provide information and evidence to build consensus among stakeholders and public administration for the adoption of a scheme of payments for adaptation services based on water harvesting.

Droughts

AUDIMOD tool is composed by two separate modules: a) The “Ex-Post” Module: this module supports decision makers and managers to regularly monitor and audit the irrigation system including hydrological, environmental and socioeconomic indicators b) The “Ex- Ante” Module: this module helps decision makers and managers to simulate the potential effects of an irrigation modernisation project, based on a set of indicators and variables which can be easily compiled and/or produced before the project is approved.

Droughts

Recycle is a porous and permeable pavement block. It is mainly made of a recycled natural stone, porphyry, binded with small amounts of concrete. Its structure is porous, 15-20% empty spaces of the total volume, which allows high rates of permeability to water and creates no surface runoff. It is normally led down on a gravel layer that can store water and reduce the amount of water that flows downstream.

Multi-hazard

For cities who must face chronic stresses and acute shocks with limited budgets, HAZUR® is the first city-resilience-oriented online platform that provides a flexible methodology and a simulation of a system to go through the whole process of integrating resilience concepts into operations of basic municipal services and infrastructures with the engagement of city stakeholders. HAZUR is designed to support the implementation and management of cities’ resilience. It includes a method to understand that the city works as system of systems by analyzing interdependencies in service networks.

Multi-hazard

SolarDew has developed a unique alternative to solve this problem with an affordable product that is easy to use, robust, extremely low in maintenance and only requires energy from the sun to produce clean water from saline, biological or chemically contaminated water. SolarDew’s unique technology eliminates the need to transport water over large distances.

Multi-hazard

Despite the multitude of sensors and DSSs currently available, estimating stomatal conductance and transpiration at orchard level remains a challenge. ArboDroughtStress is a validated model which applies a direct parameterization of the Penman–Monteith equation to compute diurnal courses of orchard canopy conductance (gc) from sap flow in sub-hour resolution for both day and night conditions.

Droughts

Despite the multitude of sensors and DSSs currently available, estimating stomatal conductance and transpiration at orchard level remains a challenge. ArboDroughtStress is a validated model which applies a direct parameterization of the Penman–Monteith equation to compute diurnal courses of orchard canopy conductance (gc) from sap flow in sub-hour resolution for both day and night conditions.

Multi-hazard