BESSE

Brokering Environmentally Sustainable Sanitation for Europe

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT    more  Organization address address: Minderbroedersberg 4-6 city: MAASTRICHT postcode: 6200 MD contact info Nome: Dennis Cognome: Ernes Email: send email Telefono: +31 43 3883450 Fax: +31 43 3884917
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT  Organization address address: Minderbroedersberg 4-6 city: MAASTRICHT postcode: 6200 MD contact info Nome: Dennis Cognome: Ernes Email: send email Telefono: +31 43 3883450 Fax: +31 43 3884917	NL (MAASTRICHT)	coordinator	254˙970.00
2	LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Ashby Road city: LOUGHBOROUGH postcode: LE11 3TU contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Andy P. Cognome: Cotton Email: send email Telefono: 441509000000	UK (LOUGHBOROUGH)	participant	204˙256.00
3	LABORATORIO DI SCIENZE DELLA CITTADINANZA - LSC  Organization address address: VIA PASUBIO 2 city: ROMA postcode: 195 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Giovanna Cognome: Murari Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 98877300 Fax: +39 06 98877147	IT (ROMA)	participant	198˙795.00
4	RESEARCH CENTRE - REGIONAL AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT  Organization address address: LYUBOTRAN 90/3/4 city: SOFIA postcode: 1407 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Nadia Cognome: Nikolova Email: send email Telefono: 35929811395 Fax: 35929811395	BG (SOFIA)	participant	56˙700.00
5	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Massimo Cognome: Cannatà Email: send email Telefono: +39 6 49933803 Fax: +39 6 49933820	IT (ROMA)	participant	51˙795.00
6	Waterschapsbedrijf Limburg  Organization address address: Maria Theresialaan 99 city: Roermond postcode: 6043 CX contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Onneke Cognome: Driessen Email: send email Telefono: 31888420000 Fax: 31475311605	NL (Roermond)	participant	50˙558.00
7	International Water Association  Organization address address: "Caxton Street 12, Alliance House" city: London postcode: SW1H 0QS contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Armand Cognome: Van Oostrom Email: send email Telefono: 31703150790 Fax: 31703150799	UK (London)	participant	41˙664.00
8	Comune di Castel Sant'Angelo di Rieti  Organization address address: Via Nazionale 70 city: Anetra di Cahttps:/stel Sant'Angelo (RI) postcode: 2010 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Paolo Cognome: Anibaldi Email: send email Telefono: +39 0746 698629 28 Fax: +39 0746 698187	IT (Anetra di Cahttps:/stel Sant'Angelo (RI))	participant	32˙340.00
9	MUNICIPALITY OF PERNIK  Organization address address: SV IVAN RILSKI SQ 1A city: Pernik postcode: 2300 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Rosita Cognome: Yanakieva Email: send email Telefono: 35976649814 Fax: 35976649831	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 city: ROMA postcode: 187 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Emanuele Cognome: Farnetani Email: send email Telefono: 390670000000 Fax: 39066793275	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.