Co-designing sustainable management solutions for resilient Alpine headwaters

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Alpine Space
Date of latest update: 2025-11-11

Description

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Actual Achievements (EN): Read more
Project outputs: Protocol for the collection of HW critical data.(EN)

An open source and user-friendly web-platform for performing HW vulnerability assessments.
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Tried-and-tested vulnerability assessments at the stakeholder testing sites
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Local multi-stakeholder dynamics towards resilient and adaptive HW management in the testing sites
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Joint solution to incorporate the toolbox in the activities of the municipalities(EN)
Legal strategies to better consider HW into regional to EU policies(EN)
Website: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/waterwise/

Thematic information


Priority: (VI-B_AS_1) Climate resilient and green Alpine region

Priority specific objective: RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility

Type of intervention: 060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Université de Neuchâtel

Partner’s ID if not PIC: CHE-343.042.942 TVA

Department: Centre of Hydrogeology and Geothermics (CHYN)

Address: Avenue du 1er-Mars, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Department address: Rue Emile-Argand, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.unine.ch

Total budget: EUR 340 200.00

Partner contribution: EUR 340 200.00

Centre de recherche sur l’environnement alpin

Name: Centre de recherche sur l’environnement alpin

Partner’s ID if not PIC: CHE-104.493.435 TVA

Address: Rue de l’industrie , 1950 Sion, Switzerland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.crealp.ch

Total budget: EUR 200 200.00

Partner contribution: EUR 200 200.00

Agenzia Regionale Protezione Ambiente - Lombardia

Name: Agenzia Regionale Protezione Ambiente - Lombardia

Department: Hydrology-Snow-Meteorology and Climate Department– Bormio Unit

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 13015060158

Address: via Rosellini, 20124 Milano, Italy

Department address: Via Monte Confinale, 23032 Bormio, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Sectoral agency

Website: https://www.arpalombardia.it

Total budget: EUR 195 761.66

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 146 821.24

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 48 940.42

Legambiente Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta

Name: Legambiente Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 06478780015

Address: Via Maria Ausiliatrice, 10152 Torino, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.legambientepiemonte.it/

Total budget: EUR 250 567.62

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 187 925.71

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 62 641.91

Contractors:

  • Name: Legambiente Nazionale APS
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 02143941009
  • Name: Carlo Angelo G. Sirocchi
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 02286500182
  • Name: Martina Bosica
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 12541160011
  • Name: Tommaso Dreina
    VAT registration or tax identification number: DRNTMS04A03F335K
  • Name: Sergio Capelli
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 09787530014
  • Name: Elisa Leo
    VAT registration or tax identification number: 12287040963
EVTZ Geopark Karawanken m.b.H.

Name: EVTZ Geopark Karawanken m.b.H.

Partner’s ID if not PIC: ATU75506409

Address: Hauptplatz, 9135 Bad Eisenkappel, Austria

Legal status: public

Organisation type: EGTC

Website: https://www.geopark-karawanken.at

Total budget: EUR 98 002.80

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 73 502.10

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 24 500.70

Geološki zavod Slovenije

Name: Geološki zavod Slovenije

Department: Groundwater - Hydrogeology

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI23064145

Address: Dimičeva ulica, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Department address: n.a., n.a. n.a., Slovenia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.geo-zs.si/

Total budget: EUR 214 100.04

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 160 575.03

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 53 525.01

Alpinarium Galtür Dokumentation GmbH

Name: Alpinarium Galtür Dokumentation GmbH

Partner’s ID if not PIC: ATU 56432809

Address: Hauptstrasse, 6563 Galtür, Austria

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.alpinarium.at/

Total budget: EUR 81 250.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 60 937.50

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 20 312.50

Contractors:

  • Name: ETZ Elektro Technik Zangerl
    VAT registration or tax identification number: ATU77650212
  • Name: Verein Gletscher und Klima
    VAT registration or tax identification number: ATU80263402
Hochschule Karlsruhe

Name: Hochschule Karlsruhe

Department: Institute of Applied Research

Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE-14 35 89 180

Address: Moltkestraße, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany

Department address: n.a., n.a. n.a., Germany

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.h-ka.de/

Total budget: EUR 256 200.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 192 150.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 64 050.00

Universität Passau

Name: Universität Passau

Department: Bioeconomy Economics

Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE 811193057

Address: Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. , 94032 Passau, Germany

Department address: n.a., n.a. n.a., Germany

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.uni-passau.de/bioecon

Total budget: EUR 261 800.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 196 350.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 65 450.00

TETRAKTYS

Name: TETRAKTYS

Partner’s ID if not PIC: FR-2008 - EIN - 0302725077

Address: Rue Federico Garcia Lorca, 38240 Grenoble, France

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.tetraktys-ong.org

Total budget: EUR 196 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 147 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 49 000.00

Réserves Naturelles de France

Name: Réserves Naturelles de France

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SIRET 428 434 831 000 31

Address: Allée Pierre Lacroute, 21000 Dijon, France

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: https://www.reserves-naturelles.org/

Total budget: EUR 260 400.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 195 300.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 65 100.00

Contractors:

  • Name: BDO Rhône-Alpes
    VAT registration or tax identification number: FR72061500542
Fondazione Edmund Mach (ERDF Lead Partner)

Name: Fondazione Edmund Mach (ERDF Lead Partner)

Department: Research and Innovation Centre – Hydrobiology Unit

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 02038410227

Address: Via Edmund Mach, 38098 San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Department address: n.a., n.a. n.a., Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.fmach.it/

Total budget: EUR 337 637.46

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 253 228.09

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 84 409.37

Fondazione Edmund Mach

Name: Fondazione Edmund Mach

Department: Research and Innovation Centre – Hydrobiology Unit

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 02038410227

Address: Via Edmund Mach, 38098 San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Department address: Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.fmach.it/

Total budget: EUR 337 637.46

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 253 228.09

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 84 409.37

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Summary

Project name (EN): Co-designing sustainable management solutions for resilient Alpine headwaters

Project acronym: WATERWISE

Project ID: ASP0500341

Project start date: 2024-09-01

Project end date: 2027-08-31

Project status: ongoing

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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 692 119.58

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 613 789.67

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 59.94%

Co-financing sources:

  • ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 613 789.67. Co-financing rate, 59.94%.


Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

  • Protocol to build and maintain low cost sensors.
  • Stakeholder testing sites report
  • User support and training package
  • Guidelines report on resilient HW management strategies.
  • Final project report including a summarising report from the transnational governance workshop

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

  • EUStrategyAlpineRegion WATERWISE supports the Cross-cutting priority “Promoting a Joint Water Management Transition” by sharing information on water scarcity at HW level. Project information has been provided to the embedded Action Groups (AGs) at a side workshop during Conference “Sustainable and economical management of Water resources” June 2024, Scuol (CH). Outcomes will feed into the activities and goals of the involved AGs and the Youth Council, and support the science-policy dialogue at transnational level.
  • EuropeanGreenDeal Adaptation to the effects of climate change, e.g. water scarcity and drought, is recognised as a priority by the EU Green Deal and is reflected in major European strategies such as the 2021 EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change and the Mission “Restore our Oceans and Waters”. EU and PPs’ regional officers involved in these strategies will be invited to discuss during WATERWISE events to produce indications for sound territorial planning and preservation of Alpine HW resources and quality.
  • TerritorialAgenda2030 Demographic and societal imbalances, quality of life of involved communities, employment and economic development induced by climate changes are touched by WATERWISE. It will contribute to Pilot Actions Small Places Matter, and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience through landscape transition by involving national policy makers and officers which contribute to drafting the guidelines for the sustainable management and preservation of Alpine HW quality and biodiversity.
  • Other WATERWISE contributes to fulfil the goals of the Alpine Convention priority “Water” of Climate Action Plan 2.0, and to pathways of Alpine Target System 2050. It will develop a digital toolbox where transboundary cooperation would improve water management and smooth conflicts of interest through a deeper science-policy dialogue. PPs will develop a common approach towards early warning and emergency tools and relevant measures against water scarcity and drought at catchment level.
  • Other WATERWISE supports and enhances information exchange and transboundary cooperation for tackling mountain water security in the framework of the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) for the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Floods Directive, and contributes to the Task Group “Water Scarcity and Droughts”. CIS members invited to project meetings will trigger the transboundary harmonisation of local/regional actions to limit the negative impacts of climate change on HW.
  • Other WATERWISE contributes to the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the NATURA 2000 network by improving the status of habitats related to mountain HW ecosystems in and outside protected areas, and by developing HW-adapted monitoring indicators and protocols. Regional development of climate protection strategies are considered in the framework of pilot areas. EU and partners’ regional officers involved in the above strategies will be invited to discuss during the events organised by WATERWISE.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

  • RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
  • RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
  • RCO 121 - Area covered by protection measures against climate related natural disasters (other than floods and wildfire), Measurement unit:

Programme Common Result Indicator:

  • RCR 098 - SMEs staff completing training for skills for smart specialisation, for industrial transition and entrepreneurship (by type of skill: technical, management, entrepreneurship, green, other), Measurement unit:
  • RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSALP

EUSALP Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

EUSALP Degree of compliance:

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Alpine Space

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2025-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

46 / 46 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

467 / 467 (100%)

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