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WATERLINE Project

Transforming Advanced Water Skilling through the Creation of a Network of Extended-Reality Water Emulative Centres
WATERLINE aims to 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, (i) establishing ambassador networks, (ii) identifying the R&I funding landscape, thus increasing participation in HE and the mobilisation of resources in the water sphere, and (iii) creating synergies with EU initiatives, institutions, other projects and networks.
ACEEU's Role: Research and analysis of data; co-developer of work packages
ACEEU supports the creation of a nurturing, collaborative and interdisciplinary ecosystem empowering universities to be active agents of change via engaging with industry and communities to tackle unprecedented societal and economic challenges, maximise learning paths and growth of their students and staff and unleash its innovative potential. Therefore, ACEEU contributes towards the co-creation of the WATERLINE governance framework.
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Adekola Ashonibare


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Project information

Project period
01 Sep 2022 to 31 Aug 2025
Funding body & program
Horizon Europe: European Excellence Initiative (EEI) , European Commission
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Partners
10 Partners (see partner information below)
Target group focus
EDU leaders,
Researcher,
Students
Educational level focus
Higher education
Topic focus
Digitalisation
Output focus
Curriculum development,
Network / partnership development,
Skills / mindset development
Discipline focus
Natural sciences
Industry sector focus
Water
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ACEEU presents WATERLINE project in Round table at University of Nis as part of SKILLS for WATER project
At the round table discussion on advancing soft skills in the water sector across the EU and beyond, held in Niš, Serbia on March 14th, 2024 as part o [...]
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New Chapter in Waterline: Work on Capacity Building in Full Swing
WATERLINE partners have iniaitived the work on WP3: Capacity building for education, R&I, entrepreneurship, lead by DEU-DESUM. The work will be con [...]
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PRESS RELEASE: WATERLINE innovation capacity building summer school 2023
WATERLINE project, which receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe, aims to create a European Digital Water Higher Education Instituti [...]
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WATERLINE Project: Mapping the Landscape of Digital Water Innovation Ecosystems
The WATERLINE Project sets out on a mission to establish a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance, following the quadruple [...]
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Navigating the Skills Landscape in Industry 4.0: Perspectives from the WATERLINE Project
WATERLINE project is creating a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance based on the quadruple helix model of innovation. I [...]
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Message from the WATERLINE Project Coordinator
In an era in which data and digital transformation are critical to survive the ever-changing environments, never so more than now the water sector nee [...]
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WATERLINE at Working Group Human Capital Water Europe
On March 17th WATERLINE was presented in the Working Group Human Capital as one of the Best Practices to support employability within the Water Sector [...]
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Introducing the WATERLINE Project: Leveraging Extended Reality to Revolutionise Digital Water Education
In the era of digital transformation, it is imperative for the water sector to adopt Industry 4.0 technologies to survive in the constantly changing e [...]
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This project has received funding from Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme.