BESSE
Brokering Environmentally Sustainable Sanitation for Europe
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
Organization address
address: Minderbroedersberg 4-6 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Netherlands [NL] |
| Totale costo | 1˙155˙318 € |
| EC contributo | 927˙918 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2008-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-06-01 - 2012-09-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
Organization address
address: Minderbroedersberg 4-6 contact info |
NL (MAASTRICHT) | coordinator | 254˙970.00 |
| 2 |
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: Ashby Road contact info |
UK (LOUGHBOROUGH) | participant | 204˙256.00 |
| 3 |
LABORATORIO DI SCIENZE DELLA CITTADINANZA - LSC
Organization address
address: VIA PASUBIO 2 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 198˙795.00 |
| 4 |
RESEARCH CENTRE - REGIONAL AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
Organization address
address: LYUBOTRAN 90/3/4 contact info |
BG (SOFIA) | participant | 56˙700.00 |
| 5 |
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Organization address
address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 51˙795.00 |
| 6 |
Waterschapsbedrijf Limburg
Organization address
address: Maria Theresialaan 99 contact info |
NL (Roermond) | participant | 50˙558.00 |
| 7 |
International Water Association
Organization address
address: "Caxton Street 12, Alliance House" contact info |
UK (London) | participant | 41˙664.00 |
| 8 |
Comune di Castel Sant'Angelo di Rieti
Organization address
address: Via Nazionale 70 contact info |
IT (Anetra di Cahttps:/stel Sant'Angelo (RI)) | participant | 32˙340.00 |
| 9 |
MUNICIPALITY OF PERNIK
Organization address
address: SV IVAN RILSKI SQ 1A contact info |
BG (Pernik) | participant | 19˙560.00 |
| 10 |
AICCRE - ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA PER IL CONSIGLIO DEI COMUNI E DELLE REGIONI D'EUROPA
Organization address
address: PIAZZA DI TREVI 86 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 17˙280.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'This collaborative research project will last 40 months and involve 10 partners. Its general aim is to contribute to the EU Renewed Sustainable Development Strategy through the enhancement of the links between policy and research on sustainable development in the field of sanitation (a crucial area with regard to environmental sustainability and quality of life in general). The project has two specific aims. 1. Generating new knowledge on the factors hindering the dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge that can be immediately applied in support to sustainable development, and of identifying knowledge brokerage methods enabling to overcome these hindering factors and to maximise the exploitation of relevant knowledge. 2. Starting up a learning process on knowledge brokerage in general as a tool for the socialisation of Scientific and Technological Research. The project components, to be implemented in the partner countries, are: - Research. Activities will carried out for mapping the knowledge and technological options for environmentally sustainable sanitation (ESS), and the actors that possess this knowledge. This, together with a consultation of experts aimed at listing the obstacles to knowledge brokerage dissemination, will provide the basis for experimentations. - Experimentation. Knowledge brokerage experiments on ESS will be carried out in the Netherlands, Italy and Bulgaria via 3 pilot projects. - Learning. The results achieved will serve to start up a process aimed at drafting policy guidelines (including a position paper) on knowledge brokerage on ESS. - Dissemination. Dissemination and awareness-raising initiatives will be carried out on the project issues and results. 9 WPs are foreseen. WP1 and 2 for the first part of the research; WP3-6 will be devoted to the design and implementation of 3 pilot projects, WP7 will be devoted to learning process; WP8 will deal with dissemination and WP9 with project management.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
An EU project investigated the role of knowledge brokerage in innovation processes in sanitation.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Most European approaches to sanitation are based on 19th and 20th century methods and systems. Some now consider these insufficiently sustainable, based on energy costs and environmental impact. However, there is no simple replacement for the current systems, suggesting a lack of innovation.
According to the EU-funded project 'Brokering environmentally sustainable sanitation for Europe' (BESSE), which ran from June 2009 to May 2012, such innovation would be the outcome of its efforts in knowledge brokerage in the field of sustainable sanitation. During its tenure, BESSE had two main goals: to bridge the gap between science, policymaking and implementation, and to promote inter- and transdisciplinary approaches involving sciences and social studies. BESSE implemented these through programmes intended to identify the current state of the art and knowledge gaps, and to map technology options and actors currently available.
The project conducted a series of pilot studies to model under what circumstances knowledge brokerage could accelerate the pace of sanitation innovation. BESSE ran such experiments in Bulgaria, Italy and the Netherlands. The Italian setting was rural and the other two were urban/industrial.
Project partners identified four forms of resistance to innovation: technological inertia, community disengagement, institutional immobility and research weakness. The researchers concluded that, combined, these represent a trap for sustainable sanitation.
Subsequently, BESSE began a new phase of drawing lessons from these experiments, which would ultimately lead to policy guidelines. The policy guidelines constituted a position paper, containing the project results about knowledge brokerage, and a set of policy guidelines. The resulting 26 recommendations were aimed at various actors, including water companies, civil organisations, researchers and policymakers. These were summarised by BESSE, whose partners also expressed project outcomes as a list of 20 'lessons learnt'.
The main documents delivered during the project were collated into a BESSE project resource book, published on the http://www.besse-project.info/ (project website) . The project's information was also shared through various awareness raising initiatives.