Water smart industrial symbiosis
ULTIMATE aims to create economic value and increase sustainability by valorising resources within the water cycle.
Wastewater plays a key role both as a reusable resource but also as a carrier for energy and materials to be extracted, treated, stored and reused within a dynamic socio-economic and business oriented industrial ecosystem.

Reuse wastewater

Exploit energy

Recover Materials
Marketplace and Technology Evidence Base (TEB) for Circular Economy
Ultimate Videos
💬I could even say that there is nothing like waste water but only..wasted water. We, as people, give priority to ...urgency than importance. I have seen the #value of #water changing in my life" says Hp Nanda from @grundfos #UN2023WaterConference side-event #WEFE #nexus
🎺🎺 World Water Day special newsletter is out! Read how our member projects contribute to safe and clean water for... all.
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Valuing #water appropriately is core to a water-secure world.💧
Thinking about pricing water in a broader values ...framework connected to social norms is essential for the #UN2023WaterConference. The process is priority.
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#WorldWaterDay
#WorldWaterDay2023 – Data and AI for “Accelerating Change”
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This #WorldWaterDay is about accelerating change to solve the #water & sanitation crisis. Because water affects us ...all, we need everyone to take action.
Read how ULTIMATE is contributing to setting-up innovative #solutions:
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News
Circular economy solutions to water scarcity: Promoting sustainability via industrial symbiosis
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Special Issue on “Entropy and Industrial Symbiosis”
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Open Call for Greenfield assessment industrial symbiosis potential
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International water research networks offer solutions for water stress
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ULTIMATE Pageflow – 9 case studies to discover
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ULTIMATE at the EU Green Week 2022
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9 demosites
ULTIMATE will implement Water Smart Industrial Symbiosis in nine large-scale business cases from the international agro-food, petrochemical and biotech sector.
ULTIMATE's STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

LIVING LABS
Implementing the Innovation
Building a support system in practice. Scale impact, create sustainable strategies and actionable goals through innovation, capacity development, and market outreach

COMMUNITY of PRACTICE (CoP)
Integration and Peer Knowledge
Learning with peers and experts
Involving domain-specific stakeholders and experts with various hands-on experiences

CO-CREATION
Play & Community Engagement
Learning by doing and reflection
Involving local communities and general public to co-innovate by allowing them to
reflect on the processes and finding new solutions to challenges

PLAYBOOK
Multi-use Playspaces
Learning beyond
Formulating human-centered approaches, methodologies, tools, and interventions to guide and motivate people to do things, disseminate, use and re-use information in a new way

Immersive Narrative / Art and Technology Interventions in 3 Case Studies