Innovative financial instruments and mechanisms to support public and private sector in water innovation.

1. Innovative Technology Solutions for
Sustainability
Introduction to European Innovation Partnership on Water
FInnoWater: the financing for innovation action group.
“Water beyond Europe” South Africa
February 2014
ABENGOA

2. Our commitment
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Abengoa focuses its growth on creating new technologies that contribute to
sustainable development…
 Generating energy from renewable sources
 Converting biomass into biofuels and producing drinking water
from sea water
 Creating infrastructures that respect the environment
 Promoting new development and innovation horizons
To achieve this, Abengoa…
 invests in research, development and innovation (R&D+i)
 expands the technologies with the greatest potential
 develops the necessary talent, attracting and retaining the
best professionals (more than 26,000 employees)
 dedicates economic and human resources to promoting social
action policies that contribute to social progress
Abengoa’s commitment to sustainable development is a priority in all its activities  we try to reduce the
impact of our activities with the support of an integrated management system

3. European Innovation Partnership on Water
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EIP Water
EIP Water is a flagship initiative of the European Commission to pool water
expertise and resources by bringing together public and private actors at EU
• Speed up development of water innovation
• Contribute to sustainable growth and employment
• Stimulate uptake of water innovations by market and society

4. EIP Water: priorities
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Water innovations with high impact
EIP Water
How
What

5. EIP Water: structure
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EIP Water

6. EIP Water: Action Groups
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EIP Water
• Anaerobic membrane Bioreactor for Recovery of Energy and Resources
• CITY BLUEPRINTS: Improving Implementation Capacities of Cities and Regions
• ESE - Ecosystem Services for Europe
• FInnoWater: Financing for Innovation in Water sector
• Industrial Water Re-use and Recycling
• Renewable Energy Desalination (RE-Desalination)
• Smart Pricing and Drought Insurance Schemes in Mediterranean countries
• W4EF: Framework for evaluation and reporting of the energy impacts on water
• WaterCoRe: Regional governance of water scarcity and drought issues

7. FInnoWater
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FInnoWater
• What is Innovative financial instruments and mechanisms to support public and
private sector in water innovation
• Overall objective: identify, analyze and recommend on innovative tools to
remove the barriers that hamper the existing demand and offer cycle for a wide
range of water technologies and services as identified by the priorities of work
of the EIP Water, as well as the conditions (legal, financial, procedural,
institutional, etc.) which may spur this market process.
• Leader: European Regions Research and Innovation Network
• Members: Red Aragon 7PM Network/University of Zaragoza; WETSUS; VTT,
Abengoa Water; Deltares; FEUGA; R+i Alliance; Regione Puglia, Department for
Environment, Water Resources and Public Works; Central Denmark Region; Gov.
of the Region of Valencia; Development Agency of the Region of Murcia; CDTI;
Acciona Agua.; Aqua Publica Europea; ZINNAE; ACQUEAU; OIEAU; Paragon
Europe
• Expected result: become a consolidated platform which can give advice to all
water actors and stakeholders on how to promote and benefit form innovation
oriented procurement and financial tools.

8. Initial actions
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• Initial Action 1 - An EU wide common structure to build interfaces
between funders, industry, companies, SMEs and research
organizations to foster relationships promoting innovation and
improve knowledge about access to finance
• Initial Action 2 - Options to improve access to finance for SMEs active
throughout the water cycle, especially those with potentially disruptive
technologies and those with high export potential
• Initial Action 3 - Frameworks and instruments to stimulate public
sector innovation in the priority areas identified by the EIP, based on a
review of public procurement best practices in relevant sectors of
industry in Europe and other OECD countries
• Initial Action 4 - Innovative financial instruments at an EU level to
support European companies proposing innovative goods and services
and to facilitate access into overseas water sector export markets in
line with the objectives of the EIP
FInnoWater

9. Initial action 4: why overseas?
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FInnoWater
The top 10 municipal wastewater
treatment markets, 2013-2017
(source: GWM-2014)
The top 10 desalinationt markets,
2011-2018 (source: GWM-2014)

10. Initial action 4: Goal and objectives
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• Promote and support actions to
overcome financial barriers:
 Limit
 Difficult
 Slow down
FInnoWater
• Penetration of innovative
solutions into:
 New markets
 New geographies
Water companies
(including SME)
General objectives
 Help EU water companies to be competitive in the international markets and in
particular in developing countries.
 Support EU water companies to have the know-how, technology and
capabilities to lead this global market

11. Initial action 4: specific objectives
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FInnoWater
 To identify new instruments to mobilize public and private funds at local,
regional, national and European levels to support innovation at each level.
 To promote bilateral investment treaties between EU and third countries that
enable to boost a favourable political and commercial environment for EU water
companies
 Link initiatives like Environmental Technologies Verification (ETV) for supporting
different stages of the innovation cycle and foster new approaches.
 To increase overall financial flows to the water innovation sector especially
improving the financing of –EKA programs that allows the companies to
penetrate into new markets.
 To align EU RTD&I addressed funds with the priorities of EIP Water.
 To boost strategic alliances between SME and large companies to cooperate in
common business models.

12. Initial action 4: outcomes
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FInnoWater
 Study of RTD&I funding mechanisms out of EU
 Key locations (USA, China, Middle East, India, etc.)
 Report on successful business models in water sector
 Type of costumer (public, private, etc.)
 Geographical market
 Application (desalination, wastewater treatment , water reuse, etc.)
 Report on penetration of innovative solutions into market
 Proposal to improve financial scheme of –EKA programs

13. Conclusions
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FInnoWater
 EIP Water is necessary to bridge the innovation valley of dead
 Our market is not only Europe but the world
 Leadership of EU water sector must be kept through technology
 To achieve our goals FInnoWater is the key instrument

14. Innovative Technology Solutions for
Sustainability
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