Leopold Hotel
Rue du Luxembourg 35
Brussels
Belgium
Event link: 
http://bewaterproject.eu/events/bewater-european-policy-event

BeWater European Policy Event

Thursday, February 9, 2017 9 am

The BeWater European Policy Event: Implementing COP22 agreements: river basin adaptation planning through stakeholder engagement, will display the outcomes of participatory European research projects, and supporting the advancement of methodologies for assessing stakeholder interests, demands and concerns within the field of adaptive water resources management.

Experiences from several EU-funded research projects -amongst them the BeWater project – will guide discussions, helping to answer the question: What is the potential of engaging participatory processes to impact (EU) policy making processes and support the implementation of e.g. COP22 decisions?

In addition to esteemed members of the BeWater team from each of the four case study river basins, panel speakers include: Anabel Sánchez (Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications), BeWater Project Co-ordinator Dr. Uta Wehn (Associate Professor UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water), expert on citizen science and innovation in the water sector Prof. Muki Haklay (Co-director of Extreme Citizen Science), expert in participatory mapping methods and citizen science Bjørn Bedsted (Deputy Director of the Danish Board of Technology), expert in public engagement within the field of climate change adaptation.

The conference language will be English. Register now!

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