Delta technology focuses on matters of safety and landscape surrounding rivers, cities, deltas, and along coastlines. The sector includes the waterway construction, water management, and water and nature segments.
The key parties in this sector are governmental bodies (both national and regional), universities, research institutes such as Deltares, KNMI, and TNO, engineering agencies, contractors/dredgers and technology companies, platform organisations such as STOWA, and RIONED, and the Centre of Underground Construction (COB).
Themes of the Delta Technology Sector
The key themes within the delta technology sector are:
- Climate change
- Building with nature/eco-engineering
- Desiccation/salinisation
- Sustainable deltas
- Urban water management
- Accessibility
- Integration of functions
- Smart systems
- Installation and maintenance of offshore wind energy
Relevant Grant Programmes
- WBSO, Innovation credit, for proprietary research and development
- NWO, Horizon Europe, for scientific research
- ERDF, MIT and TSE, for the cooperation between corporations and research institutes
- LIFE, Interreg, DEI (Demonstration Energy Innovation), for demonstration projects
- DRIVE, DHI, for export
Examples of Projects in the Delta Technology Sector
O2DIT, UU, TUD: STW-OTP voor onderzoek naar snelle infiltratie
WUR e.a.: STW Partnership voor Water Nexus, omgaan met verzilting
STOWA e.a.: Interreg IIB NWE voor NOAH, waarschuwingssysteem voor overstromingen
Duwind e.a.: STW Perspectief voor EUROS, reduceren van onzekerheden in ontwerp en kostenverlaging van offshore windmolens
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