MULTISOURCE focuses on the intersection of nature-based solutions with the four key areas of environment, circular economy, society, and policy. This is where stakeholder engagement plays a key role. Effective and inclusive stakeholder engagement methodologies will be used for each MULTISOURCE pilot, as well as for the development of business models and planning tools. The Enhanced Natural Treatment Solutions (ENTS) of MULTISOURCE will demonstrate the benefits of increased water quality, water storage, reuse, but also contribute to the creation of valuable urban habitats and provide other important ecosystem services. To achieve this, the municipalities and metropolitan municipalities (CMM, GLYON) will play a strategic role. These include: Bozeman (US); Girona (Spain); Grand Lyon (France); Leipzig (Germany); Merone (Italy); Oslo (Norway); and Turnhour (Belgium). They will ensure the tools and business models developed in the project are applicable across the scales needed for widespread uptake and implementation of nature-based solutions for water treatment (NBSWT) in urban areas (from individual municipalities up to groups of more than 100 municipalities).

Together with local, national, and international stakeholders, the MULTISOURCE project will demonstrate a variety of ENTS treating a wide range of urban waters. It will develop innovative tools, methods, and business models that support city-wide planning and long-term operations and maintenance of NBSWT, storage, and reuse in urban areas worldwide. The project will allow users to identify multiple sources for local water reuse, promote increased uptake of nature-based solutions, and minimise discharge of water that has not received adequate treatment. The use of urban archetypes in the Planning Platform will enable users (e.g. cities/regions) to quickly classify regions (in both developed or developing countries) suitable for the application of NBSWT and compare scenarios both with and without NBSWT. The project will provide knowledge, tools and business models for large-scale planning, promoting circularity and sustainable development in the urban water sector.

Programme:

• H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Topic:

• SC5-27-2020 - Strengthening international collaboration: enhanced natural treatment solutions for water security and ecological quality in cities

€ 5 169 165 (EU contribution: € 4 999 631.25)

Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Contact the project

• Aarhus Universitet
• Ayuntamiento de Girona
• Alchemia-Nova GmbH
• Forum za Enakopraven Razvoj Drustvo
• Helmholtz-Zentrum fuer Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
• Truong Dai Hoc Bach Khoa-Dai Hoc Quoc Gia Tp Ho Chi Minh
• ICLEI European Secretariat GmbH (ICLEI Europasekretariat GmbH
• Fundacio Institut Catala de Recerca de L'aigua
• Inrae Transfert SAS
• Institut national des sciences appliquees de Lyon, Iridra SRL
• Metropole de Lyon
• Citta Metropolitana di Milano
• Montana State University Bozeman
• Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning
• Oslo Kommune
• Rietland Bvba
• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
• Water Europe