The European research project B-WaterSmart accelerates the transformation to watersmart economies and societies in coastal Europe and beyond. The project now has released a preliminary version of a Knowledge Portal for Circular Economy (CE) and watersmartness. It provides the following services: (i) a Knowledge Base of collected experiences with CE and water-smartness from demonstration sites, (ii) a Toolbox providing access to smart applications and tools designed for CE and water-smartness improvement and assessment and (iii) a Marketplace for stakeholders to learn and share their solutions and team up with other solution providers to address challenges at national, regional and local level.
The Knowledge Base and the Toolbox are freely accessible by all users. The Marketplace functionality will only be available to registered users in order to receive advanced and personalised services based on the users’ preferences, interests and browsing behaviour. The portal is still under progress and the focus right now is on creating a final design and populating the Knowledge Base with smart applications and tools for water-smartness improvement and assessment. The portal is of interest for: (i) Problem owners such as utilities, authorities, or industries seeking to find the best solution to turn linear processes within their organisation into circular ones, reducing waste and reusing resources, (ii) solution providers such as Research and Technology Organisations (RTO), or commercial entities offering a technology or a service as part of a CE enabling portfolio and (iii) investors seeking opportunities to maximize investment revenues.