Comune di Castel S.Angelo di Rieti (CSA) (Municipality of Castel Saint’ Angelo of Rieti), Italy.

Castel Sant'Angelo is located in the centre of Italy and is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about 70 km northeast of Rome and about 12 km east of Rieti. It has a population of 1,249 and an area of 31.3 km². Castel Sant'Angelo borders the following municipalities: Borgo, Velino, Cittaducale, Micigliano, Rieti.

Department of Technology and Society Studies, Research Institute on Arts and Social Sciences, University of Maastricht (UM), Netherlands

Maastricht University (UM), one of the Netherlands leading universities, has a reputation for its innovative approach to learning and international outlook. With 13,100 students and 3,500 staff, UM offers a wide choice of academic programmes, all of which are designed to bring out the best in its students.

The Research Institute for Arts and Culture at UM encompasses all research of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University Maastricht except the Centre for Gender and Diversity. All research staff of the Faculty participates in its Research Institute. The Research Institute comprises three programmes: 1. Politics and Culture in Europe, 2. Science, Technology and Society, and 3. Science and Culture: Texts and Contexts.
The Faculty has a matrix structure: the five discipline-based departments serve as a reservoir of human resources and expertise for the Faculty’s various interdisciplinary teaching and research programmes. This structure is motivated by the Faculty’s focus on issues that are typically situated at the intersection of divergent perspectives or disciplines rather than belonging to a single academic field.

International Water Association (IWA), Netherlands.

IWA has its roots in two strong associations: the International Water Supply Association (IWSA) and the International Water Quality Association (IAWQ). IWSA was established in 1947 while IAWQ was originally formed as the International Association for Water Pollution Research in 1965. IWSA and IAWQ came together in a merger in 1999 to form IWA.
Today, IWA is a member driven organisation. There are three member types within the Association: Individual, Corporate and Governing Members. In aggregate members involve and represent approximately 10,000 individuals worldwide. The Association is a non-profit organisation, self-governing and responsible to its Governing Members. A Governing Assembly, Board of Directors, a Strategic Council and various committees guide and direct the Association.
IWA’s purpose is to connect water professionals worldwide to lead the development of effective and sustainable approaches to water management and to create and foster a global network of leading-edge water professionals through the provision of services and products to members, including conferences, publications and support for member groups. In addition, to represent the views of members in international forums and to project key messages to the sector at large, aimed at advancing best practice in sustainable water management.

Italian Branch of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (AICCRE), Italy.

AICCRE is the Italian Section of the CEMR, the Council of European Municipalities and Regions. The CEMR is the largest organisation of local and regional government in Europe; its members are over 50 national associations of towns, municipalities and regions from 37 countries. Together these associations represent some 100,000 local and regional authorities.

AICCRE participates in the CEMR’s fields of activity such as regional policy, transport, the environment, equal opportunities, governance. Its committees and working groups seek to influence draft EU legislation to make sure the interests and concerns of local and regional authorities are taken into account from the earliest stages of the EU legislative process.

AICCRE has its headquarters in Rome and has Regional Federations in 20 Italian Regions. Since 2007 has its office in Brussels at the CEMR’s  together with other European national associations and sections . The main association tasks are: Twinnings, Training and technical assistance for Local authorities, Press and Communication, Projects and financial management. An important tool of communication and dissemination of European issues also goes through the e-newsletter EuropaRegioni that reaches more than 7.000 users twice a week. AICCRE has large experience in projects in several EU programmes, both as LP and as PP. AICCRE is promoting the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign in the framework of  Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme.

Laboratorio di scienze della cittadinanza (LSC) (Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences), Italy

Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences is an independent, not-for-profit association of researchers, knowledge managers and research designers founded in 1992 and based in Rome (Italy).

Putting together knowledge and policy-making, bringing social research into the scientific and technological research arena, and contributing to the development of a new citizenship science are the key features of LSC’s mission.

For more than ten years the association has been operating in Italy and Europe-wide with projects in the following thematic areas: science and society; global phenomena; public policies; health and services; social inclusion; crisis of institutions and political systems; integrated scientific project design and management.

In LSC’s view, society, science and technology develop in a single co-evolutionary process. However, awareness of such interplay is still low among decision makers and scientists, and consequently attitudes and policies are not yet developed. LSC therefore seeks to contribute to a better governance of research by promoting the ‘socialisation’ of science. LSC aims to strengthen sociology’s place in what is increasingly perceived as a single scientific field, encompassing natural and social sciences

National Council for Research of Italy (CNR), Italy.

The National Research Council (CNR) is a public organisation; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country. To this end, the activities of the organisation are divided into macro areas of interdisciplinary scientific and technological research, concerning several sectors: biotechnology, medicine, materials, environment and land, information and communications, advanced systems of production, judicial and socio-economic sciences, classical studies and arts.
CNR is distributed all over Italy through a network of institutes aiming at promoting a wide diffusion of its competences throughout the national territory and at facilitating contacts and cooperation with local firms and organizations.

Since 1968 the Water Research Institute (IRSA) has been involved in finding solutions to problems of water resources management and protection, and in developing processes and technologies for potabilisation and wastewater treatment. IRSA operates over the whole range of technological process from basic and applied research, environmental studies, processes and methodologies development, pilot and full-size plant design, supported by cost evaluation, result dissemination.

Pernik Municipality on behalf of the Water Supply and Sanitation (PNK), Bulgaria.

The major water utility in Pernic is Water Supply and Sanitation, widely known under the Bulgarian abbreviation ViK-Pernik. The company is 51% state owned and the remaining 49% by the municipality of Pernik and 4 other municipalities. The company has 400 employees.

Research Centre Regional and Global Development (REGLO), Bulgaria.

The research centre ‘Regional and Global Development’ is a non-governmental organisation established in 1990. Its main aims are: 

• to study social problems and processes;
• to work for the development of education, science and culture;
• to support civil society;
• to suggest solutions to social problems

For achieving the above aims, the REGLO Research Centre:

• conducts local, national and international sociological studies;
• offers expert assessments and proposals for social technologies
• organizes congresses, conferences, symposia, discussions;
• holds courses, seminars, consultations and other forms of education and training;
• publishes results of studies, experts’ assessments, collections and monographs.

REGLO’s research priorities are socially relevant problems related to social change, social risks and their management; individual and institutional strategies for coping with social risks; social mobility; labour market and social policy; technological and organizational innovations; education and science; change in cultural orientations and behaviour; ecology.

Water Board Company Limburg (WBL) Netherlands.

The Water Board Company Limburg was founded in 2003 as a collaboration of the two Water Boards Peel and Maasvallei and Roer and Overmaas in the province Limburg, South Holland. Within the frameworks of these two water boards, the company is responsible for operational aspects. The main task is management of water quality, combating water pollution by purifying sewerage water and therefore improving surface water quality. Low costs and high quality of performance are the main objectives to achieve this.

Dutch water boards are decentralised and the ever-present threat of flooding and loss of land requires short lines of communication between authorities and action. Typically, a water board’s territory is made up of one or more polders or watersheds. Territorially, water boards overlap with municipalities. Water boards are responsible for management and maintenance of water barriers, waterways, of pro-per water levels in polders and waterways and the maintenance of surface water quality through water treatments.
There are 27 water boards in the Netherlands.

Water, Engineering and Development Centre, Loughborough University (WEDC), UK.

The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) is one of the world's leading institutions concerned with education, training, research, and consultancy relating to the planning, provision, and management of infrastructure for development in low- and middle-income countries. WEDC is devoted to activities that improve the health and well-being of people living in both rural areas and urban communities. We encourage the integration of technological, environmental, social, economic, and management inputs for effective and sustainable development.
Loughborough University with 3,000 staff and 12,000 students has an impressive 410 acre campus - one of the largest in the UK - with easy access from the M1, East Midlands Airport and only 90 minutes from London St Pancras. Loughborough itself is a remarkable combination of a large, thriving town and a prominent high-technology centre for the East Midlands - a magnet for inward investment.

The university has won an unbeaten 4 Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education for work with the aeronautical and automotive industries (1994); support for developing countries (WEDC, 1998); for a pioneering role in developing applications of modern optics and laser technologies (2000); and for its world leading role in sports research, education and development (2002).