5.
Progress towards Strategic
Research and Innovation Agenda
(SRIA) 2.0
The SRIA is a living document, under continuous review and update in order to cover current
and actual RDI needs in a fast-changing world. Upon release of SRIA 1.0, efforts will shift to the
development of SRIA 2.0. This third version of the Agenda will be published in December 2015,
in coincidence with the end of the WatEUr Coordination Support Action.
The European water RDI is currently characterised by its rapid evolution as new working groups
and structures are continuously created (this is the case for, for example, the EIP Action groups,
the working groups of the WssTP and the Common Implementation Strategy [CIS]). The Water
JPI will review the work carried out by these new groups and structures, so that new RDI needs
are taken into account in the preparation of SRIA 2.0.
In addition to the information sources used in SRIA 1.0, the new version will be fuelled by the
second Water JPI Mapping Report, to be released by the end of 2014. The new version will also
deepen the relationship between needs and Water JPI instruments. Additionally, a broader per-
spective will be gained by integrating information coming from outside Europe. New information
sources – such as those listed below – will be analysed, thereby completing the analysis of rel-
evant information sources initiated in February 2013:
• River Commissions (e.g. Rhine, Danube);
• Strategic agendas of European Technology Platforms (e.g. WssTP, SusChem, Forestry, Sus-
tainable Mineral Resources);
• Strategic agendas/roadmaps of European networks (Euraqua, EuroGeoSurvey, Norman);
• Recent developments of the European Stewardship Standard;
• Outputs from international conferences (such as the European Water Research Conference
organised by the Water Science Alliance);
• CIS working groups;
• Roadmap of the European Water Association;
• Roadmap of Eureau;
• Agendas of relevant ERA-Nets in the field of water resources;
• Activities of the EIP action groups;
• Activities of active Water Partnerships in Europe; and
• Roadmaps/agendas of the organisations to which members of the SAG belong.
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