Stichting Water Alliance
Netherlands: Friesland
Roman Gijzen
Overview
Profile:
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About us
Stimulating economic growth by accelerating innovative and sustainable water technology solutions.
Development of the European Water Technology Hub, with its physical core at WaterCampus Leeuwarden
Cluster composition
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107Cluster Members
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85SME's
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15Large Companies
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2Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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5Other Ecosystem Actors
Achievements
Recent achievement 2016
During the Leeuwarden International Waterweek, with a.o. EIP Water Conference and Conference on Cities & Water, Water Alliance supported the promotion actions, The WaterTech Experience Tour with participants from Singapore, Mexico, France, The USA, Denmark, Kenya, Ireland en Malta: Water Alliance also organised the Water Match. More than 40 parties from 11 countries took part in Water Match 2016 on 9 February. Businesses, knowledge institutions and government authorities, all looking for opportunities for international cooperation, contacted one another in Leeuwarden by means of short one-on-one conversations.
Management team
Hein
Molenkamp
Cluster Manager
Pieter
de Jong
Internationalisation Responsible
Roman
Gijzen
ECCP Responsible Person
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral Industries
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Cross-sectoral industries
Blue Growth Industries
Key members
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Services
Support services provided
Other (please specify)
Further information
Water Alliance supports Dutch watertechnology SMEs in export, internationalisation and transnational technology cooperation by participating in brockerage events, creating the Holland Innovation & Inspiration Hotspot,organising international business cases.
Furthermore, watertechnology SMEs are invited to use the WaterCampus Innovative Ecosystem to accelerate their product development. The WaterCampus Innovative Ecosystem offers testsides and demosites to develop, test and validate innovative watertechnology solution form field test to pilot plant. WaterCampus partners offer services regarding knowledge, applied and research. Professsionals and students can be connected to the experiments. Next, international enterprises and SMEs are invited to open their Dutch or European office at the WaterCampus Leeuwarden, the physical hotsport for European Water Technology. Water Alliance gives international enterprises and SMEs a soft landing in the European water technology hotspot.
Water Alliance cooperates with other clusterorganisations in The Northern Netherland, the Northern Development Agency and granting institutes. Therefor Water Alliance is able to support SMEs in their questions for funding and grant-instruments. Next to that, The waterCampus Business Challenge is a yearly event where innovative startups are being coached in growing their business; funding is one of the main subjects in this Challenge.
Support programmes
EU Programmes
European Programmes
H2020
CIP/COSME
Name & description
H2020: E.E.N.-North partner, aiming at watertechnology SMEs
H2020: EnW-partner aiming at supporting SMEs in Water & Energy Nexus
Project name
EnW-Nexus
Enterprise Europe Netwok North-Netherlands
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Canada
Singapore
United States
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Denmark
France
Germany
Iceland
Netherlands
Transnational support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairs
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsFurther information
- Incoming and outgoing mission
- Matchmaking (technology and commercial cooperation between SMEs)
- Business cases with industries and SMes
- Brockerage events
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