World Meteorological Organization Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment

World Meteorological Organization Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment

The Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment, organized by World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA), co-organized with and supported by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will take place on 14 – 16 June 2023, in a hybrid format at JRC (Ispra, Italy).

The Key Focus Areas of the Workshop Are:

Crowdsourcing for water quality monitoring and assessment (including associated uncertainties);

Acceptance and integration of water quality data from non-traditional data sources (e.g., citizen science, remote sensing, modelling);

Low-cost methodologies to monitor and assess water quality;

Integrated spatial, geophysical, and ground measurement to monitor and assess water quality;

Methods of data exploration and visualization.

The workshop will include presentations, pitches and/or panel discussions on the operational challenges and needs as well as existing and potential innovative approaches and solutions. The workshop will also include collaborative working sessions aiming at:

Refining and narrowing down the challenges selected through this Call;

Exploring and defining innovative ideas and solutions to address these challenges;

Exploring and defining a way forward for the implementation of the identified innovative ideas and solutions.

A challenge is not usually seen as a good thing, but when it comes to innovation, it is.
Contrary to what many believe, ideas are not the first step of innovation, problems are.

In this “Open Call for Innovation Challenges”, we are soliciting proposals for challenges to be
put forward at the upcoming Innovation Workshop on

Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment, in order to accelerate innovation in water quality monitoring and assessment.

The workshop will include presentations, pitches and/or panel discussions on the operational challenges and needs as well as existing and potential innovative approaches and solutions. The workshop will also include collaborative working sessions aiming at:

• Refining and narrowing down the challenges selected through this Call;

• Exploring and defining innovative ideas and solutions to address these challenges;

• Exploring and defining a way forward for the implementation of the identified
innovative ideas and solutions.

The Submitted Challenge Proposals Will Be Evaluated and Selected Based on the Following Criteria (No Challenge Should Be Expected to Meet All the Criteria):

• The challenge isrelevant to the workshop’s key focus areas;

• The topic of the challenge needsincreased attention and development;

• The challenge has a high potential for impact;

• The challenge has an international scope and is faced by multiple countries;

• The challenge is generally comprehensible;

• The challenge has a potential for innovation;

• The challenge is evidence-based;

• The challenge is well-designed.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; World Meteorological Organization Innovation Workshop on Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment

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