WaterDiss Better strategies to transfer research results in Europe

The consortium of the European Water- Diss2.0 project organized, on 2 and 3 December 2013 in Barcelona, its final conference entitled ”Definition of the best strategies to transfer research: exchange of Europeans ideas, methods and tools”. The conference addressed the following main questions: l Why the transfer time of water research is currently more than 10 years? l Why is it so important to develop specific and adaptive strategies for dissemination? l What are the responsibilities and respective roles of water managers, scientists and stakeholders in this transfer? l Are transfer tools and methods likely to stimulate innovation? l What are the actions to be taken by donors to optimize the quick use of research results on water?