Welcome to IWRM-Net
The site for networking water research
IWRM-net scientific coordination project
Due to technical reasons the SCP for the second call will be relaunched, opening on the 1 Dec 09 and closing on 8 Jan 10. The call is limited to French and German applicants only. Read more...
Developing a research ’agenda’
IWRM-net partners are looking to build the network of interested scientists and funders. To provide a baseline document to set out common intentions and areas of interest the partners have started to create a document detailing the short, medium and long-term research needs. This will inform discussions and provide a basis for developing collaborations. Recently a number of IWRM-net partners have held discussions with the Water Supply and Sanitation technology platform (WSSTP) to investigage common issues.
Growing the community
IWRM-net provides a network for funders, policy makers and scientists so that the process of research management is an integrated and considers issues such as the science-policy gap. To assist in this process IWRM-net has run a workshop on research management and looks to share experience on all the latest techniques for improving research management along the whole life-cycle. read more...
social webs, semantic webs and clouds...
With the rise of technology to help online collaboration, IWRM-net is starting to investigate the right solution to support era-nets and the water community. Intially the work has been about sharing the database of programmes and projects with the support of NETWATCH, but as this develops partners are starting to look at options for the future and more ambitous ideas. more soon...
Latest news
- IWRM-Net at World Water Forum - A number of the IWRM-net partners were at the World Water Forum in Istanbul during March 09. Through the International Office of Water Natacha Amorsi chaired a table discussion on the identification research needs. Final report will be written by the conveners of the session but a short text on the discussion is available. More detailed update is proposed in the near future...
IWRM-Net blog - Bridging the Sci-Pol Gap? - With around 60 people attending the event in Brussels the project received some excellent inputs and comments from a wide range of stakeholders. The discussions on Science policy interface were well received and the event has given the partners alot of food for thought.
SCI-POL Gap webpage...
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