The third call “Water for Circular Economy” organised by the European partnership Water4All with 36 Funding Agencies and the European Commission is welcoming joint transnational proposals supporting research and innovation projects. Formas is supporting the call with a budget of 20 million Swedish Crones.
The proposals presented to the Water4All’s 2024 Joint Transnational Call are expected to deliver new knowledge, innovative tools, methodologies, and approaches to governance and management enabling the development of new circular feedstocks and value chains, increased water resource efficiency, improved water allocation, and optimized water use in water-dependent sectors.
The proposals are also expected to contribute to the acceleration of the adoption of measures and to connect actors to improve coordination of actions. In all cases, knowledge transfer and impact of the outputs must be demonstrated. Likewise, the proposals will be required to demonstrate how stakeholders are involved to achieve the desired impact.
Proposals must not duplicate past efforts and results delivered by projects and actions previously funded by other instruments. Read more about the duplication and collaboration with active projects on the topics in the call text.
The general theme of the call is “Water for Circular Economy”.
Research & innovation proposals submitted under the Water4All 2024 Joint Transnational Call are required to address at least one of the following themes:
Topic 1: Enhancement of water circularity in industries.
Topic 2: Urban water circularity.
Topic 3: Resources recovery and valorization.
Topic 4: Economic, environmental and social implications of water reuse and recovered products.
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom.
The European Union is contributing to the call.
Researchers, branch organisations, municipalities, companies, actors from the cultural and creative industries and other stakeholders who can contribute to the projects’ aim and performance are welcome to participate in the projects. Eligible organisations when applying for funds from Formas: universities, research institutes, private companies, private and public organisations that engage in economic activity, public authorities, and NGO's.
- Who can apply for funding?
- State aid regulations – for private and public organisations that engage in economic activity
The Water4All 2024 call is open to a wide range of scientific disciplines and welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. It intends to support a large range of activities, from research to innovation and implementation.
Each proposal must involve, at least, three partners from three countries eligible for funding by their respective national/regional funding agency. The added value of transnational collaboration should be clearly stated.
The national requirements for each funding agency can be found in the national annexes in the international call text.
Please, read the National Requirements carefully together with the Call text that you find under the heading “Call Documents to Download” on the Call website Water4All 2024 Joint Transnational Call | European Partnership Water4All (water4all-partnership.eu)
External link.
The main applicant is responsible for coordination and contacts with the Water4All 2024 JTC Call Secretariat. Applicants should contact their national contact point regarding questions for eligible partners and funding.
The call is a two-step process. A pre-proposal is submitted as a first step to the International Submission platform on the Call website.
Applicants who proceed to the second stage receive this information via the application system - and will be asked to submit a full proposal.
For applicants applying to Formas, an invitation to submit an additional full proposal to Prisma (Formas application system) will be sent to the applicants. The invitation to Prisma will be sent after the results from the step 1 evaluation process of the pre-proposals.
- The call opens on 12 September 2024
- Information meeting 2 October 2024
- Last day for applying, step 1, 13 November 2024, 15.00 CET
- Selection of preproposals end of February 2025
- Step 2 application opens, 28 February 2025
- Application to national portal (PRISMA) begins, 15 April 2025
- Last day for applying, step 2, 29 April 2025, 15.00 CEST
- Application to national portal (PRISMA) closes, 13 May 2025, 15.00 CET
- Selection of funded proposals: early October 2025
- Project start, end 2025 or beginning 2026
- Kick off meeting of the funded projects spring 2026
Important information
For complete information about call topics, participating countries’ budgets, application procedures, and requirements, see the international call text at the Call website on Water4All webpage.
Contact
For questions about call
For questions about PRISMA
