WESENSEIT
WeSenseIT: Citizen Observatory of Water
| Coordinatore | THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Organization address
address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 6˙966˙223 € |
| EC contributo | 5˙423˙764 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-10-01 - 2016-09-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Organization address
address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK contact info |
UK (SHEFFIELD) | coordinator | 990˙540.94 |
| 2 |
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION -UNESCO
Organization address
address: PLACE DE FONTENOY 7 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 686˙987.40 |
| 3 |
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Organization address
address: BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 contact info |
CH (LAUSANNE) | participant | 544˙794.00 |
| 4 |
SOFTWARE MIND SA
Organization address
address: UL BOCIANA 22A contact info |
PL (KRAKOW) | participant | 397˙678.25 |
| 5 |
HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH BV
Organization address
address: Oliemolen 25 contact info |
NL (Delft) | participant | 373˙645.20 |
| 6 |
QUINARY SPA
Organization address
address: VIALE LIEGI 41 contact info |
IT (Roma) | participant | 353˙893.50 |
| 7 |
SENSORSCOPE SARL
Organization address
address: PARC SCIENTIFIQUE EPFL PSE D contact info |
CH (LAUSANNE) | participant | 316˙489.20 |
| 8 |
DISDROMETRICS BV
Organization address
address: MOLENGRAAFFSINGEL 12-14 contact info |
NL (DELFT) | participant | 315˙098.00 |
| 9 |
AUTORITA DI BACINO DEI FIUMI ISONZO TAGLIAMENTO LIVENZA PIAVE BRENTA BACCHIGLIONE
Organization address
address: CANNAREGIO 4314 contact info |
IT (VENEZIA) | participant | 298˙344.00 |
| 10 |
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION
Organization address
address: THE BURROUGHS HENDON CAMPUS COLLEGE BUILDING contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 289˙472.80 |
| 11 |
KNOWLEDGE NOW LIMITED
Organization address
address: NURSERY STREET AIZLEWOODS MILL contact info |
UK (SHEFFIELD) | participant | 261˙526.00 |
| 12 |
STARLAB BARCELONA SL
Organization address
address: AVENIEDA TIBIDABO 47 BIS contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 255˙144.00 |
| 13 |
ADVANTIC SISTEMAS Y SERVICIOS SL
Organization address
address: AVENIDA DE EUROPA 14 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 240˙151.60 |
| 14 |
DONCASTER METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL
Organization address
address: COLLEGE ROAD - COUNCIL HOUSE contact info |
UK (DONCASTER) | participant | 100˙000.05 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'WeSenseIt will develop a citizen-based observatory of water, which will allow citizens and communities to become active stakeholders in information capturing, evaluation and communication. We propose: (i) data collection: (a) a first “hard” layer consisting of low-cost, static and portable devices that sense and transfer water information when automatically monitored or when initiated by citizens from their mobile devices; (b) a second “soft” layer consisting of techniques to harness citizens’ Collective Intelligence, i.e. the information, experience and knowledge embodied within individuals and communities, both in terms of enabling direct messages to the authorities (with mobile-phone pictures, messages, etc.) and in terms of crowd-sourcing (e.g. by mining social networks like Twitter and Facebook, as well as bulletin boards, RSS feeds, etc.). (ii) the development of descriptive and predictive models and decision-making tools integrating sensor and citizen-based data; the data suppliers (physical sensors or people) are seen as nodes of an integrated heterogeneous data collection network which undergoes progressive multi-objective optimization and tuning. (iii) two-way feedback and exchange of environmental knowledge/experience between citizens and authorities for decision-making and governance within an e-collaboration framework ,enabling improved transparency, knowledge management, accountability and responsiveness, as well as facilitating participation in water management. We will test, experiment and demonstrate the citizen observatory of water in three different case studies in water management with civil protection agencies in UK, NL and Italy. The topic is the entire hydrologic cycle with a major focus on variables responsible for floods and drought occurrences. The project results have the potential to fundamentally change the traditional concept of environmental monitoring and forecasting, as well as models of governance.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Climate change is expected to have a significant impact on the availability and quality of water and increase the likelihood of flooding. A European initiative is creating a citizen observatory for water that will allow the public to take part in the management of water resources.