Through mobility (secondments) of staff members facilitating the transfer of knowledge and boosting staff skills and career perspectives, ALICE aims to: explore society’s role, social behaviour and acceptability in the development of innovative management systems for urban WW; improve the urban resilience of WW infrastructures; enhance the reuse of reclaimed WW and resource recovery, exploring the leading edge technologies of urban WW treatment to broaden its dimension in Europe; explore the WW and energy nexus in WW treatment plants to reduce their carbon footprint, adopting a holistic approach to resource efficiency. 

ALICE will go beyond the state-of-the-art, suggesting new tools, methodologies and knowledge to boost innovation in the wastewater sector.

The staff exchange and research programme of the ALICE project has been designed jointly by academic and industrial partners to develop research innovation activities and staff exchange to accelerate innovation in wastewater management in a changing climate.

The ALICE project brings together 13 partners from 6 EU countries (Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom) with complementary expertise, including 7 leading academic institutions with groundbreaking expertise in complementary areas, such as sustainable technologies and nanomaterials (UU), environmental and behavioral economics (QUB), water engineering (DCU), climate change and adaptation policies (BC3), water governance (UniMC), antibiotics and mobile resistance in water reuse (UCY), solar process for water reuse (CIEMAT-PSA); 2 water utilities to different geographical areas (Belfast, Northern Ireland; Fano, Italy), whose needs match the research expertise of the academic institutions; 1 regional authority , Region of Murcia, Southeast Spain, with an EU-leading expertise in the area of reuse of reclaimed, where more than 100 Mm3/yr of reclaimed wastewater is reused for agriculture, providing provide access to more than 90 treatment plants and 3 SMEs with expertise complementary to the academic institutions, from the design of tailored sludge treatment solutions (Dionergy), implementation of innovation strategy (REDINN), dissemination, awareness raising, media relations and information campaigns (Militos).