Kick-off conference for the BMBF funding measure Global Resource Water (GRoW)“

12 and 13 September 2017

Tuesday, 12 September 2017

09:30 - 10:30 Registration and coffee

10:30 - 10:40

Welcome
Dr. Christian Alecke, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
10:40 - 10:50 Introduction to the GRoW funding measure
Dr. Leif Wolf, Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA)
10:50 - 11:00 Presentation of the accompanying academic project
Annika Kramer, adelphi
Topic: Global water resources
11:00 - 11:30 VIWA, Virtual Water Values: Multiscale monitoring of global water resources and options for their efficient and sustainable use
Professor Wolfram Mauser, Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität München, Department of Geography
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 - 12:30

SaWaM: Seasonal water resources management for semi-arid areas: Transferring regionalized global information into practice
Professor Harald Kunstmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
12:30 - 13:00

GlobeDrought: A global-scale tool for characterising droughts and quantifying their impact on water resources
Dr Stefan Siebert, University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation

13:00 - 14:15

Lunch break and discussion of the projects in the topic zones

14:15 - 14:45

MuDak-WRM: Multidisciplinary data acquisition as the key for a globally applicable water resource management
PD Dr Stefan Fuchs, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Water and River Basin Management
14:45 - 15:15 MedWater: Sustainable use of politically and economically relevant water resources in hydraulically, climatically and ecologically highly dynamic hard-rock aquifers in the Mediterranean region
Dr Mirko Schankat, Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Applied Geosciences

15:15 -15:45

Coffee break and discussion of the projects in the topic zones
Topic: Global water demand
15:45 - 16:15

InoCottonGROW: Innovative impulses reducing the water footprint of the global cotton-textile industry towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Dr Frank-Andreas Weber, Research Institute for Water and Waste Management at RWTH Aachen e. V.
16:15 - 16:45 WELLE: Water footprints in companies: Local measures in global value chains
Dr Markus Berger, Technische Universität Berlin, Sustainable Engineering
16:45 - 17:15 WANDEL: Water resources as important factors in the energy transition: Conditions needed at the local and global level
Dr Martina Flörke, University of Kassel, Center for Environmental Systems Research
17:15 - 17:30 Short discussion of cross-project topics / questions
adelphi / PTKA
17:30 End of Day 1 (free time to check into your hotel or visit a museum)
Social Event
ab 19:30 Evening programme at ZKM Center for Art and Media to make contacts, exchange information and discuss the joint research projects

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
08:55 - 09:00 Welcome to Day 2 (PTKA)
Topic: Good governance in the water sector

09:00 - 09:30

Trust: Sustainable, fair and environmentally sound drinking water supply for prosperous water-scarce regions: Developing solution and planning tools for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals using the Lima/Peru region as an example
Christian León, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies
9:30 - 10:00 STEER - STEER: Increasing good governance to achieve integrated water management
Professor Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Osnabrück University, Institute of Environmental Systems Research
10:00 - 10:30

iWaGSS: Integrated water governance support system
Professor Karl-Ulrich Rudolph, IEEM gGmbH
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break and discussion of the projects in the topic zones
10:50 - 11:20

go-CAM: Implementing strategic development goals in coastal aquifer management
Professor Hans Matthias Schöniger, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Leichtweiß Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources, Department of Hydrology, Water Management and Water Protection
GRoWnet interactive
11:20 - 11:35 Overview of GRoWnet on the topic of transfer & introduction with all working groups
Annika Kramer, adelphi
11:35 - 12:35 Working groups for developing additional GRoWnet activities

12:35 - 12:55

Brief feedback from working group rapporteurs, closing discussion
PTKA / adelphi

12:55 - 13:00

Closing words, outlook for GRoW
BMBF / PTKA
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Conference ends
Steering group meeting
14:00 - 16:00 Inaugural meeting of the steering group (external experts from research, policymaking and practice, and the coordinators of the joint research projects)
16:00 Steering group meeting ends