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Towards the water infrastructures of the future

Funds teams building smart sensors, AI, digital twins and cyber-defence tools that make drinking-water and wastewater infrastructure more resilient.

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Proposals are expected to build on earlier framework-programme work, especially the ICT4Water project cluster, and to stay complementary rather than overlapping with the EU Mission to Restore our Ocean and Waters, the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, and relevant security-focused projects under Horizon Europe's Cluster 3. Work should also feed into existing observation platforms: the ev…

This call wants proposals that build smart sensors, IoT, digital twins and AI-based predictive tools for drinking-water and wastewater infrastructure, alongside protection against cyber and physical attacks. It also wants nature-based solutions to cut infrastructure's carbon footprint and better manage stormwater.

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Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€10M

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