Mid-Term Progress Report Closing the water ...

The objectives of the Water JPI project “Research-based Assessment of Integrated approaches to Nature-based SOLUTIONS (RAINSOLUTIONS)” are (a) to identify stakeholder and urban ecosystem needs to inform planning/design; (b) to review and capitalize upon existing experiences of good practices; (c) to simulate the impact of climate variability and existing urban infrastructure on NBS within scaled pilot laboratory and field installations; (d) to develop an integrated indicator system for the evaluation of key NBS in terms of closing the water quantity and quality gap addressing also socio-economic aspects; (e) to map ecosystem services delivered by NBS for an evaluation of the best technology to implement in different urban contexts to support sustainable water management; (f) to create a NBS planning and design framework supported by machine learning to generate recommendations; and (g) to disseminate the self- sustainable web-based framework in collaboration with national stakeholders and communicate the project impact.