The final presentation event of the European project “B-Watersmart,” led by Veritas, was held yesterday. At the Artigianelli, the Venice Sustainability Foundation (VSF) brought institutional greetings, highlighting the link between the institution’s goals and those of the project.
Communications director Tania Schiavon emphasized the ability and need for networking to find the answers to sustainable challenges in an area like Venice. Schiavon then added how this was «an important opportunity to discuss the perspectives offered by the B-Watersmart project and the evolution of the Venice Living Lab into the international network of Wolls (water oriented living labs)» and «an opportunity for Venice to materialize innovative ‘water smart’ solutions on a large scale».
VSF in fact aims to create an integrated model (environmental, cultural, economic, social) of sustainable development for the Venetian territory, which can revitalize the local socio-economy while ensuring the protection and preservation of the environmental, historical and cultural heritage, as well as strengthening and cohesion of the local community.
The European project aims to minimize resource losses related to the integrated water service and, through approaches based on technological and managerial innovation, create the conditions for a transition to resource enhancement in a circular economy.
It is precisely the development of the circular economy that the Foundation expresses within the Economic Transition and Environment thematic area, one of the nine areas in which VSF makes its work explicit.
