The ICT4Water cluster is a hub for EU-funded research projects on ICT applied to water management. Currently, around 90 projects are members of the cluster. These are both ongoing projects and projects that were members of the cluster before their completion. In the latter case, the ICT4Water site continues to display links to the projects’ webpages and to selected project outcomes (e.g. videos, IT tools open to the public). This permanent link between the cluster and the projects, even after their completion, helps showcasing project results and supports their dissemination and exploitation.
All ICT4Water projects have digitalisation at their core as a means to address several research topics. Our members work, among others, on real time monitoring, smart devices, IoT platforms, system interoperability, standardisation, data/image analytics, artificial intelligence algorithms, simulation and 3D visualisation, and cyber-security. They use these tools to address a variety of topics, including integrated water and wastewater management, water treatment, water reuse, circular economy, water-energy and/or water-land-food-energy-climate nexus, nature base solutions, pollution reduction and prevention, smart irrigation, water system monitoring, hydro-informatics and big data analytics, and resilience in the field of floods and droughts.
At the beginning of 2022, the leadership of the cluster has been transferred to the European Research Executive Agency (REA) from the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises(EASME) which had taken over the leadership from EC Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) in 2018. DG CNECT continues to support the cluster for policy related aspects. The cluster’s activities are coordinated by a management team made of two representatives from REA and three external experts from projects which are members of the cluster.