WssTP launches first Water Innovation SME awards in Europe

To support the economic opportunities for the European water sector and especially the small and medium enterprises in Europe, the European Technology Platform for Water WssTP is taking the initiative to host a Water Innovation SME awards ceremony for the European SMEs that have generated innovative solutions or technologies for water resource management with high market potential.

All small and medium enterprises, registered in a Member State of the European Union or Associate Country are warmly invited to submit innovative breakthrough solutions or technologies that are in line with WssTP working groups topic areas of :

Agriculture and Irrigation	Membrane Technologies
Bathing Water	Resource Recovery
Eco-systems Services	Shale Gas
Emerging Compounds	Techwatch (Emerging Technologies)
Fin4WatComp	Urban Water Pollution
Green Infrastructure	Water and ICT
International Relations	Water and Industry
Hydro-climatic Extremes	Water-energy-food-biodiversity Nexus

WssTP Technology Advisory Board will evaluate all the innovation proposals submitted, on the basis of their innovation, market potential and exploitation strategy. The winning applications will be the innovations characterised as best practices in their field of application with high market potential.

Which SMEs are allowed to participate ?
Any Independent private company with legal address in Europe, < 250 employees and < € 50 million turnover.

Contact information	n/a
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.waterinnovationeurope.eu/awards/wsstp-sme-awards/
Source of information	WssTP
Keyword(s)	WEAM4i, OpIRIS, SAID, demEAUmed
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Relation	http://www.waterinnovationeurope.eu
Geographical coverage	n/a
News date	14/05/2014
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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