To maintain inclusive societies, governments have to ensure primary needs among which a sustainable access to potable and drinkable water. Considering a unique vision for providing water for all would be a mistake. It engages more forces dealing with engineering, ecology and ecosystem management, regulations and policies together promoting innovation through an innovative networking strategy to provide relevant solutions. Universities can enter in this global process and take benefit of it by sharing experiences, points of view and competences to complementarily propose new schemes and solutions. Such process can boost sustainability for the education community, promoting more transversal joint curriculum with a more global vision for novel approaches, sharing of teaching competences, common research approaches and projects, the installation of better administrative facilitative practices to the services of justice and equality for societies. This is the aim of the Water4All proposal, a relevant transversal multi-layer cooperation plan between engineering and ecosystem sciences through solutions for sustainable access to water.
This project is made possible through seed funding from the EUPeace Fund, an initial incentive launched to cultivate and develop interest across EUPeace communities in our network; by providing a first format for collaboration, the Fund equips participating researchers, educators, students and administrators with a practical tool for experimentation and active participation, employing a bottom-up approach that generates concrete information on the interests and needs of our communities and informs future collaborative initiatives.
© Laurent Bourdier
