The Water Open Innovation Lab for municipalities, promoted by Aigües de Barcelona and Mobile World Capital Barcelona, is a commitment to make Barcelona’s municipalities laboratories for innovation in water and sustainability. Through global alliances within the innovation ecosystem and addressing real challenges in the territory at the local level, it will seek to multiply the impact through public-private collaboration and putting technology at the service of society.
Challenges will be carried out with different municipalities. The first edition will take place in 2022-2023.
News & ongoing calls
Calls
Esplugues de Llobregat
How can technology help to optimize the use of irrigation water in the city’s green areas? (CLOSED)
What are we looking for?
– To local and international startups with digital and technological solutions that can address the water challenges from each municipality. The solutions must have a level of technological development equal to or greater than TRL 6 (Technology Readiness Level), and their implementation through a pilot must be viable, both technically and economically, in a time between 6-9 months.
– Scalable solutions will be valued positively.
– Solutions that respond to at least 1 out of the 6 lines of action of Aigües de Barcelona, and contribute to the achievement of one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as objectives of the roadmap of the Spanish Urban Agenda.
How the call works
Submission of proposals
The proposals will be made electronically through the forms of each challenge.
Evaluation of proposals
The evaluation of the proposals will be carried out in three phases: the firsts two where the startups will be informed about the status of each phase. A final phase will be the Pitch Day.
Pitch Day and winner announcement
The six finalist startups will be presented at a Pitch Day, where the winning startup will be chosen.