Water Alliance
Stichting Water Alliance
Netherlands: Friesland
Bart Volkers
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Overview
About us
The Water Alliance is a unique partnership of public and private companies, government agencies and knowledge institutes involved in water technology in the Netherlands. The Water Alliance focuses on innovative and sustainable water technology that can be used worldwide. It brings together a complete chain of innovation for water technology, from first idea, research & development, specialised laboratories, a water application centre, various demosites, launching customers to international applications with commercial companies. Indeed from knowledge to business.
Established - 31 December 2009
Staff in the management team - 1-5
Support services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
- Vocational training
- Mentoring
- entrepeneurship
Cluster composition
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108Cluster Members
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85SME's
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6Number of start-ups among SME's
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15Large Companies
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2Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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1Number of civil society members
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5Other Ecosystem Actors
Legal form of the cluster organisation
Non-Profit
Languages spoken
Dutch
English
German
Link to the team description on the cluster organisation website
Management team
Hein
Molenkamp
Cluster Manager
Stefan
Bergsma
Project Manager
Matthijs
Plijnaar
Project Manager
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral industries
Manufacturing:C10 Manufacture of food products -
Manufacturing:C13 Manufacture of textiles -
Manufacturing:C17 Manufacture of paper and paper products
Sectoral Industries (NACE 4 digit)
Cross-sectoral industries
Environmental Industries
Industrial Alliances and Ecosystems
Alliances:Circular Plastics
Ecosystems:Agri-food
Technology fields
B\: Performing operations; transporting:Physical or chemical processes or apparatus in general -
C\: Chemistry; metallurgy:Treatment of water, waste water, sewage, or sludge -
E\: Fixed constructions:Water supply; sewerage
S3 EU priority areas
Blue growth:Blue renewable energy -
Social innovation:Social innovation with regard to environmental issues -
Sustainable innovation:Climate change -
Sustainable innovation:Eco-innovations -
Sustainable innovation:Sustainable land & water use
Services
Support services provided
Access to the European Internal Market
Internationalisation Support (access to third countries markets)
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 services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
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Mentoring -
Other (please specify)
Support programmes
EU Programmes
European Programmes
H2020
CIP/COSME
INTERREG
EIT KICs
LIFE
Name & description
Project name
Water Smart Territories
EU Techbridge
WaterStart
Water Test Network
Enterprise Europe Network (EEN)
Value-Added Innovation in Food Chains (VIDA)
Iwatermap
Aquaconnect
ERRIN
Water4all
EnOLL
WSTTP /Water Europe
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Canada
Singapore
United States
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Israel
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Denmark
France
Germany
Spain
Netherlands
Transnational support activites
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Support to collaborative activities/etc.
International support activites
Promotional ActivitiesFurther information
- Incoming and outgoing mission
- Matchmaking (technology and commercial cooperation between SMEs)
- Business cases with industries and SMes
- Brockerage events
Membership in cluster networks, meta clusters and national associations of clusters
| Profile name | Location | Network type | |
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| E.E.N. North | |||
| TKI Water Technology | |||
| WaterCampus Leeuwarden | |||
| WaterCoalitieNL |
Membership in Cluster Partnerships or initiatives
| Profile name | Location | |
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| Energy in Water |
United Kingdom
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Latest news and documents
Virtual German-Dutch matchmaking Watertechnology
Kick-off S3 platform Water Smart Territories
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