Circular economy in water systems
5 European H2020 organizations list this as part of their work — 2 as their primary capability.
Most active in this area
- ETAIREIA YDREYSEOS KAI APOCHETEFSEOS PROTEYOYSIS ANONIMI ETAIREIA
Athens' major water utility providing large-scale demonstration sites for circular water systems, resource recovery, and smart urban water management across EU innovation projects.
“SMART-Plant, NextGen, and Fiware4Water all address circularity in water treatment — from material recovery to water reuse and digital optimization.”
PrimaryEL6 projects - SEALEAU BV
Dutch SME developing technologies to recover water, minerals, and critical raw materials from desalination and industrial brine waste streams.
“ZERO BRINE and WATER-MINING are explicitly framed as circular economy approaches; BRINE MINING applied circular economy solutions to industrial wastewater.”
PrimarySMENL4 projects - UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
Jordan's leading university contributing water treatment, circular economy, and refugee integration expertise to European research consortia.
“intelWATT combined zero liquid discharge with circular economy principles, indicating growing capability in resource recovery from wastewater.”
JO3 projects - ETRA SPA SOCIETA BENEFIT
Italian multi-utility and living lab for smart water, wastewater energy efficiency, and circular resource recovery in northeast Italy.
“B-WaterSmart keywords include circular economy and business models, suggesting ETRA is beginning to engage with the economic logic of treating water waste streams as recoverable resources.”
IT2 projects - SIMAM SPA
Italian industrial company specializing in wastewater resource recovery and PFAS contamination remediation for circular economy applications.
“Both projects share circular economy framing — iWAYS through multi-stream recovery, PROMISCES through preventing chemical loss from industrial cycles into the environment.”
IT2 projects