WATERLINE

We create a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance

The full name of the project is WATERLINE – Transforming advanced water skilling through the creation of a network of extended-reality water emulative centres.

We will create a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance, based on the quadruple helix model of innovation, leading to the development of the Alliance’s research, educational and entrepreneurship capacities. This shall leverage the individual, institutional and regional resources required for a transformative structural and sustainable learning and innovation environment.

To achieve this, WATERLINE has five specific objectives:

  1. support consolidation of the Alliance by co-creating a common governance framework, and a Research & Innovation (R&I) capacity building plan;
  2. co-create a portfolio of water components for Master level and transform emulative laboratories in partner Widening HEIs into assisted and virtual reality. These structural changes will lead to transformed and more competitive R&I HEIs;
  3. strengthen WATERLINE researchers’ R&I capacity excellence by implementing activities, such as summer schools to enhance education and R&I skills, and proposal writing workshop;
  4. build a European network of academics/researchers who, together with quadruple helix actors, will allow knowledge flow in water domains and extended reality technologies. This allows greater involvement of regional actors in the R&I process and enhances one of the major societal challenges: water-related education. Moreover, it will strengthen academic and business links through academia-to-business meetings and a hackathon to mainstream entrepreneurship mindsets. WATERLINE will, finally,
  5. sustain the alliance by
    • establishing ambassador networks
    • identifying the R&I funding landscape, thus increasing participation in HE and the mobilization of resources in the water sphere, and
    • creating synergies with EU initiatives, institutions, other projects and networks.

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Contact Us

  • Piia Leskinen

    Principal Lecturer, Deputy for the Research Leader
    +358 50 598 5626
    piia.leskinen@turkuamk.fi

Partners

  • Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST)
  • Mendel University in Brno
  • University of Nis, Serbia
  • Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
  • Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria
  • Norwegian University of Life Sciences
  • Sustainable innovaiton Technology Services Ltd.
  • H2O-PEOPLE BV, Netherlands
  • The Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities, Germany
  • Energy and Water Agency, Malta
  • Water Services Corporaiton, Malta
  • Full Scale Dynamics Ltd., UK
  • CREA HYDRO&ENERGY, Czech Republic
  • The University of Exeter

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