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Project Acronym: AfriAllianceFull title: AfriAlliance – Africa-EU Innovation Alliance for Water and Climate

Funding instrument: H2020-EU.3.5.4. Enabling the transition towards a green

economy and society through eco-innovation

Topic: WATER-5b-2015 - A coordination platform

Coordinator: Dr. Uta Wehn, IHE Delft

Beneficiaries: #16; countries ZW, ZA, CI, GH, BF, NL, FR, SP, BE

EU contribution: € 3.2 million

Start date: 1 March 2016 End date: 28 February 2021

Duration: 5 years

Contact point for the ICT4Water cluster: u.wehn@un-ihe.org

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Goal

Water & Climatechallenges

Existing & new knowledge,

innovations & solutionsCC and water-related needs

with potential, innovative solutions

Bridge

Serve as an 'alliance of networks' by connecting

existing African & European networks in Water & Climate

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approach

Co-create solutionsMatching needs & solutions

Knowledge sharing

Triple sensor approach

Strategic AdviceGeoDataPortal

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Call for collaboration Join the AA Community Share Needs & Solutions Share & find eventsProvide Metadata Generate data

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➢ Triple sensor approach

➢ Social innovation

➢ Platform for dissemination

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under

grant agreement No. 689162.

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Project Acronym: Ground Truth 2.0Full title: Ground Truth 2.0 – Environmental knowledge discovery of human

sensed data

Funding instrument: H2020-EU.3.5.5. - Developing comprehensive and

sustained global environmental observation and information systems

Topic: SC5-17-2015 - Demonstrating the concept of 'Citizen Observatories'

Coordinator: Dr. Uta Wehn, IHE Delft

Beneficiaries: #14; countries ES, SE, NL, BE, ZM, KE, UK

EU contribution: € 5 million

Start date: 1 Sep 2016 End date: 31 Dec 2019

Duration: 3.3 years

Contact point for the ICT4Water cluster: u.wehn@un-ihe.org

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GoalDemonstrate & validate a new approach to citizen observatories

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Innovation

Business development

CitizenObservatories

Market

Socio-technical approach LivingLabs principles

SocialDimensions

EnablingTechnologies

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Balancing livelihoods& biodiversity mgt

Water qualitymanagement

Community-basedsustainable NRM

Preparing for ClimateChange

Weather & Climateproof water mgt

Environmentalquality of life

Zambia Kenya Sweden

Spain The Netherlands Belgium

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Call for collaboration

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Dissemination opportunities Exploitation

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➢ Validated co-design methodology

➢ Citizen Science

➢ Impacting decision making with co-created knowledge

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