ICN Water Innovation Challenge with Novafos and Metro Vancouver

Date
27. MAY 2025

Location

Online

Time
16.30 – 17.30 CET

Are you a SME offering innovative solutions in the water sectors? Join this webinar to hear directly from the Danish water utility Novafos and Metro Vancouver about their sustainability challenges, technology needs and approach to collaborating with innovative technology suppliers. You will have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A, and to apply to submit your solution to solve presented challenges.

 

The webinar will cover two challenges:

Challenge 1: Novafos

How to treat combined sewer overflows in order to comply with requirements in relation to bacteria and environmentally harmful substances taking into consideration.

  • High variation in flow (high flows and in periods no flow)
  • Low costs
  • Low maintenance and operation
  • Limited space

Challenge 2: Metro Vancouver

Metro Vancouver is a federation of 21 municipalities that plans for and delivers regional utility services, including water, sewers and wastewater treatment, and solid waste management. They are seeking solutions for:

  • Recovering ammonia from centrate and converting it to hydrogen

Preliminary Program

  • Welcome and introduction from International Cleantech Network
  • Challenge presentation from Novafos
  • Challenge presentation from Metro Vancouver
  • “Submit your innovation solution” form presentation
  • Next steps

The webinar will be in English.

Register here

This webinar is hosted by the International Cleantech Network (ICN), an exclusive network of more than 20 cleantech clusters in the world’s leading cleantech regions, and co-hosted by CircInWater, a European-funded project that focuses on the development of innovative water solutions. Supporting partners are Clean, Foresight Canada, SMEBeyond and UPPWATER.

Water gushing from storm sewer following very heavy rainfall of the road after heavy rain.

Partners

Novafos logo
Metro vancouver logo - Services and solutions for a livable region
International Cleantech Network Logo
Foresight Canada logo
Uppwater (Dutch water tech) logo
SME Beyond, Interreg South Baltic and Co-funded by the European Union

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