The European Innovation Partnership on Water (EIP Water): approach and results to date (2012–2015)

Abstract The European Innovation Partnership on Water is an experimental, demand-driven, and flexible initiative within the framework of the EU 2020 Innovation Union; its overall objective is to facilitate the development of more innovative solutions to our water challenges. EIP Water has identified the removal of persisting barriers and bottlenecks to innovation in the European water sector as an urgent action, prioritising changes in funding schema, public procurement, set-up of partnerships, regulation, and improved dissemination. The approach some interim results are presented