CEWP PI Project Kick-off Plenum Session Lot 5 - China Europe Water Platform

CEWP PI Project
Kick-off Plenum Session
          Lot 5

Priorities for Lot 5
• Coordination and Coherence of PI Lots 1-5
• External Communications

• Business
• Policy

Lot 5 Work Packages
WP 1 - Coherence and Co-ordination
• CEWP High-level Policy Dialogue
• Co-ordination of PI Project
WP 2 - Business and Innovation
• Access Program
• Business Framework Conditions
WP 3 - New and Emerging Issues
• 3.1 SDG’s
• 3.2 Source2Sea
• 3.3 Circular Economy (Integrated with WP2)
• 3.4 Emerging Issues: Climate Change (Italy), Digitalization
  (Estonia)

HOW and WHEN will we do it?
The answers to be provided by Lot 5

WHY?                      HOW?

WHAT?                    WHEN?

Methodology Notes
• A series of Methodology Notes for all Work
  Packages will be drafted before end of 3Q

• Involvement of Lots 1-4 during drafting and
  implementation, based on synergies

• Concrete plans to be developed at the basis of
  finalized Inception Reports from Lots 1-4

WP 1: Strategic
Coordination, Coherence
  and Communication

WP 1: Strategic
Coordination, Coherence
                                                                                      Co-funded by the
                                                                                      European Union

and Communication
•   Activity 1.1: Strategic Coordination and Coherence
     –   Organize CEWP High-Level Dialogue
     –   Organize CEWP Joint Steering Committee
     –   Organize exchange between CEWP and international organizations, other Chinese Ministries and
         other EU initiatives active in water issues in China
     –   Develop CEWP Work Programme 2018-2021
•   Activity 1.2: Technical Support to the CEWP EU Secretariat
     –   Support to coordination of the preparations of Joint Steering Committee meetings
     –   Support to coordination of the preparations of High-Level meetings
     –   Dissemination of information about CEWP activities
     –   Develop and maintain CEWP websites; Represent CEWP at Social media; Communicate CEWP
         activities, via website and newsletter
•   Activity 1.3: CEWP PI Co-ordination
     –   Develop and harmonize proper steering of PI
     –   Facilitate sharing of key analysis and documents for internal capacity building
     –   Synthesize results from other WPs of the Horizontal Activity, from the Vertical Lots and other relevant sources of
         information
     –   Prepare Kick off and Mid Term Workshops for all PI programs

Support to the High-level Dialogue

Support to Secretariat
• Contribute to Annual High-level Dialogue,
  including Annual Meeting in Beijing November
  2018 and JSC Qingdao June
• Contribute to Communications
• Stakeholder Meetings

Coherence and Co-ordination

Communications

Policy Recommendations

• Proposal for elaboration, approval and
  dialogue reg Policy Recommendations
• Will be discussed in detail in Lot 5 parallel
  session on June 26th

WP2 - Business and
   Innovation

Approach Access Program Events
• Facilitating Access to information, markets,
  partners and innovation opportunities
• Geographically distributed in China, Europe
• Selected themes prioritized according to
  regional water challenges and market
  perspectives
• Placed at selected Tech Expos, to facilitate
  dialogue with business community

Plan for Access Program Events
•   2018
-   CN: Shanghai and Qingdao
•   2019
-   CN: Chengdu and Guangzhou
-   EU: Amsterdam
•   2020
-   CN: Qingdao and ”Yangtze”
-   EU: IWA World Congress, Copenhagen
•   2021
-   CN: Beijing and Shanghai
-   EU: tbd

Plan for Access Program Events
Involving selected Lots for each event:
• Policy sessions reg Water Challenges (=Market
  Segments)
• Game Changer Sessions for selected Water
  Challenges: Circular Economy, Policy Targets,
  Digitization, Climate Change
• Open Innovation Session within selected
  Water Challenges

Business Framework Conditions
WP 2.3 DEN
• Adressing Barriers
• Elaborate Recommendations
• Dialogue with Business Community

WP 2.3 POR
• Financing opportunities – Annual Overview
• Open Innovation and Matchmaking

WP 3 - New and Emerging
         Issues

WP 3.1 SDG Water Promotion
Strategic Long Term Objectives
• EU and China as examples in comprehensive and immediate
   implementation of SDG 6
• EU and China acting jointly to achieve SGD 6 globally
   – Agree how to jointly promote SDG in international processes (FAO,
     UNECE, HLPF, Water Architecture, …)

Process (tbc)
1. Baseline Study; situation in EU and China
2. 2 Workshop in the first half of 2019; medium level representation
3. Panel discussion & Declaration in CEWP Annual meeting 2019
4. Possible Follow-up workshop 2021?
    In connection with Source to Sea concept (tbc)

WP 3.2 - Source to Sea (S2S)

• S2S is a Governance approach

• Understanding the interdependency:
  Upstream (Source) to downstream (Sea)

• System thinking and coordination across
  sectors and geographic segments

WP 3.2 - Source to Sea (S2S)
• Objective of WP 3.2:

Explore challenges, opportunities and potential
actions for application of Source to Sea concept
in China

• Main activities of WP 3.2 (2018 and 2019):

2 studies, 2 workshops and 1 MoU

WP 3.2 - Source to Sea (S2S)
1.   A desk study to map out the current approach and structure of the water and marine
     governance in China and EU from a Source to Sea perspective. (ToR ready and experts
     identified)

2.   A desk study to identify opportunities, challenges and potential actions for achieving a
     more integrated governance approach based on the Source to Sea concept (ToR ready
     and experts identified)

3.   A workshop in Beijing in November 2018: Integrated management of water and
     marine environment in China and EU – from a Source to Sea perspective (Preparation
     ongoing)

4.   A workshop in 2019 (details tbc)

5.   A MoU signed with a Chinese organization with mandate and expertise in integrated
     management of water and marine environment (process not started yet)

WP 3.3 – Circular Economy

• Development of a Green Paper outlining the Water Systems and
  providing an introduction to, how we are dealing with the topic
  overall
• Development of White Papers on the topics above (Scope of
  Lots), ready in due time before an Access Program where the
  topic will be adressed
• Key note speech on the outcome of the White Paper: how does
  this act as a game changer for the market
• Taking an active part in the organization of the Access Program
  for the priority topics, including contributing to identifying
  Challenge Owners

WP 3.4 – Emerging Issues

• An opportunity to include new
  issues in the PI Project
• A call has been launched for new
  issues to be taken into account
• Climate Change (Italy),
  Digitalization (Estonia)