The European Commission has awarded grants to 31 consortia for running projects on water innovation, waste recycling, earth observation, climate action or natural resources. All in all, more than 550 organisations from 48 different countries, including 25 EU Member States, will be involved in the new projects.

The projects will run for three to four years and range from deploying environmental living labs across Europe for improving air quality in cities to developing waste management strategies for tourist cities.

For more details on the projects, please have a look at the catalogue of projects funded in 2014/15 through Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials'.

These projects were selected from among 625 proposals submitted for the 2015 two-stage calls for proposal.

A new round of calls for proposals will be launched in October 2016.

List of new projects

Project EU Contribution Coordinator MADFORWATER: DevelopMent AnD application of integrated technological and management solutions FOR wastewater treatment and efficient reuse in agriculture tailored to the needs of Mediterranean African Countries € 2,91 million ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, Italy REPAiR: REsource Management in Peri-urban AReas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism € 5,09 million TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT, the Netherlands WATERSPOUTT: Water - Sustainable Point-Of-Use Treatment Technologies € 3,08 million ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND, Ireland SCENT: Smart Toolbox for Engaging Citizens into a People-Centric Observation Web € 3,26 million INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, Greece INTEGROIL: Demonstration of a Decision Support System for a Novel Integrated Solution aimed at Water Reuse in the Oil & Gas Industry € 4,27 million ACCIONA AGUA SA, Spain Waste4Think: Moving towards Life Cycle Thinking by integrating Advanced Waste Management Systems € 8,82 million FUNDACION DEUSTO, Spain SIM4NEXUS: Sustainable Integrated Management FOR the NEXUS of water-land-food-energy-climate for a resource efficient Europe € 7,9 million STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK, the Netherlands DECISIVE: A DECentralIzed management Scheme for Innovative Valorization of urban biowastE € 7,75 million INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES POUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET L'AGRICULTURE, France WADI € 3,82 million YOURIS.COM, Belgium INCOVER: Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater € 7,2 million ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE, Spain INTCATCH: Development and application of Novel, Integrated Tools for monitoring and managing Catchments €7,57 million BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON, United Kingdom CLAiR-CITY: Citizen Led Air pollution Reduction in Cities € 6,7 million TRINOMICS BV, the Netherlands VicInAqua: Integrated aquaculture based on sustainable water recirculating system for the Victoria Lake Basin € 3 million HOCHSCHULE KARLSRUHE-TECHNIK UND WIRTSCHAFT, Germany AquaNES: Demonstrating synergies in combined natural and engineered processes for water treatment systems € 7,8 million FACHHOCHSCHULE NORDWESTSCHWEIZ, Switzerland MERCES: Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas € 6,65 million UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE, Italy MAGIC: Moving Towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity: Informing Nexus Security € 7,45 million UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, Spain AMBER: Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers € 6,02 million SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom Ground Truth 2.0: Environmental knowledge discovery of human sensed data € 4,97 million STICHTING IHE DELFT, the Netherlands SALTGAE: Demonstration project to prove the techno-economic feasibility of using algae to treat saline wastewater from the food industry € 8,3 million TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL, Spain LANDSENSE: A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring € 5,1 million INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE, Austria INNOQUA: Innovative Ecological on-site Sanitation System for Water and Resource Savings € 7 million NOBATEK, France SafeWaterAfrica: Self-Sustaining Cleaning Technology for Safe Water Supply and Management in Rural African Areas € 3 million FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, Germany iSCAPE: Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe € 5,85 million THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN, Ireland Urban_Wins: Urban metabolism accounts for building Waste management Innovative Networks and Strategies € 4,96 million COMUNE DI CREMONA, Italy URBANREC: New approaches for the valorisation of URBAN bulky waste into high added value RECycled products €8,62 million AIMPLAS - ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE MATERIALES PLASTICOS Y CONEXAS, Spain ICARUS: Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems € 6,47 million ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS, Greece GROW Observatory € 5,1 million UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, United Kingdom DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and transboundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries. € 3,4 million EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, Switzerland SMART-Plant: Scale-up of low-carbon footprint material recovery techniques in existing wastewater treatment plants € 7,53 million UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA, Italy FLOWERED: de-FLuoridation technologies for imprOving quality of WatEr and agRo-animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of aDaptation to climate change € 3 million UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI, Italy UrBAN-WASTE: Urban strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities € 4,25 million GOBIERNO DE CANARIAS, Spain

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Horizon 2020 call for proposals "Growing a low carbon, resource efficient economy with a sustainable supply of raw materials"

Horizon 2020 call for proposals "Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials"

Horizon 2020 call for proposals "Water innovation: boosting its value for Europe"