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BeWater: Making society an active participant in water adaptation to global change (project no. 612385).

BeWater is a 3.5-year multi-actor FP7 Science and Society project, Coordination and Support Action FP7-SIS.2013.1.2-1 Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Action Plans: main-streaming Science in Society actions in research.

Project period: October 2013 - March 2017 Project budget: 3,588,713.20€ with a contribution of 2,934,724.00€ from the European Commission.

Photo: Felipe Valladares

Society Adapting to Global Change

Coordinator: CREAF Edifici C Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès Barcelona. Spain

Tel: +34 93 581 46 75 info@bewaterproject.eu www.creaf.uab.cat

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 612385

Society in transition for adaptive water management

BeWater is in dialogue with local communities, who will participate in discussions focusing on expected global change impacts on water management. This involvement will raise public awareness of the importance of adaptation at river basin scale. The outcomes of these processes will be put together into River Basin Adaptation Plans as guidance for decision taking at local and regional level.

Iterative interactions will result in growing and shared insights within each of the four Case Study River Basins.

Findings obtained will be shared with other regions and across the Project.

BeWater insights, results and methodology aim to guide similar processes in different river basins across Europe.

Four Case Study River Basins across the Mediterranean

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BeWater uses an iterative process of mutual learning to ensure that stakeholders play an active role in determining appropriate strategies for management of river basins.

The exchange of information, knowledge and experience between the scientific community (data and findings) and society (local knowledge, perceptions, needs and concerns) results in shared learning at different levels:

Impacts on water availability due to global change in the Euro-Mediterranean region need to be urgently addressed through a bottom-up approach leading to increased resilience of the socio-ecological system of a river basin.

In four Case Study River Basins, methodologies integrating physical, ecological, social and political perspectives are used to develop Water Management Options.

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BeWater promotes dialogue and collaboration between science and society for adaptive water management facing the impacts of global change in the Mediterranean.

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Talking to people for a resilient society

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