01/06/2026
⭐ Horizon Europe Project of the Month WATERLINE ⭐
WATERLINE aimed to create a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance, based on the quadruple helix model of innovation, leading to the development of the Alliance’s research, educational and entrepreneurship capacities.
To achieve this, WATERLINE had five specific objectives:
📌 support consolidation of the Alliance by co-creating a common governance framework, and a Research & Innovation (R&I) capacity building plan
📌 co-create a portfolio of water components for Master level (EQF Level 7) and transform emulative laboratories in partner Widening HEIs into assisted and virtual reality. These structural changes will lead to transformed and more competitive R&I HEIs
📌 strengthen WATERLINE researchers’ R&I capacity excellence by implementing activities, such as summer schools to enhance education and R&I skills, and proposal writing workshop
📌 build a European network of academics/researchers who, together with quadruple helix actors, will allow knowledge flow in water domains and extended reality technologies;
📌 sustain the alliance by, (i) establishing ambassador networks, (ii) identifying the R&I funding landscape, thus increasing participation in HE and the mobilisation of resources in the water sphere, and (iii) creating synergies with EU initiatives, institutions, other projects and networks.
The Malta College of Arts Science and Technology is the co-ordinator of the project, which was funded under the Widening participation and spreading excellence of Horizon Europe.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101071306
