Our ​EU Projects

NEXUS–NESS: NEXUS Nature Ecosystem Society Solution Fair and Sustainable Resource Allocation Demonstrator of the Multiple WEFE Nexus Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits for Mediterranean Regions
13 partners: Cyprus, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Egypt and Tunisia
Total Budget: 3 Million Euros
Duration: 36 months (2021-2023)
XPRO is responsible for the designing and applying the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Transition through Innovation Ecosystem Approach in all four Nexus Ecosystem Labs running in Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Egypt. XPRO will apply its RRI Roadmap methodology.

Horizon 2020 Project: MARINA - ​"Marine Knowledge Sharing Platform for Federating Responsible Research and Innovation Communities"
14 partners from 10 EU members and 1 non-EU
Total Budget: 3 Million Euros
Duration: 3 years (2016-2019)

XPRO Consulting has been instrumental in defining the project's concept, identifying suitable partners, advisory board members and in defining the project's concept and methodologies.
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XPRO Consulting was responsible for:
  • Work-Package leader of RRI Methodological Learning and Spill-over activities of MARINA
  • Development and dissemination of the RRI Roadmap
  • Defining the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning​ (MML) workshop methodology and inclusion actor criteria
  • Policy makers mobilisation
  • Definition of Dissemination and Communication Strategy
  • MARINA platform taxonomy and ontology
  • MARINA platform user interface​
INTREPID COST Action
Interdisciplinary Symposium 1st-2nd of November 2016 in Tallinn, Estonia
​"Enabling Interdisciplinarity in Urban Studies – Methods and Tools. Experiences from Case Studies"
Tallinn University of Technology, the School of Economics and Business Administration
The objective of the symposium was to identify ways for overcoming significant interdisciplinary barriers in urban research for creating a framework across disciplines and practices for potentially enabling interdisciplinarity in urban studies.

STEP-WISE:Science, Technology and Policy Interfacing using WISE-RTD
7 partners from 5 countries
Total Budget: Just above 1 Million Euros
Duration: 2 years (2011-2012)

STEP-WISE aimed to improve and promote the WISE-RTD Water Knowledge Portal for increasing the use of FP environmental RTD results in the sector of environmental technologies focusing on water by diverse stakeholders: policy, scientists and industry.
XPRO Consulting was responsible for:

SPI-Water - Science-Policy Interfacing in support of the water framework directive implementation
15 partners from 10 EU States and 2 non-EU  
Total Budget: 1,4 Million Euros
Duration: 2 years (2006-2008)

The SPI-WATER project aimed to enforce communication links between the involved stakeholders by developing and implementing a ‘science-policy interface. 
XPRO Consulting was responsible for:
  • Identify connections among EU-funded for supporting the implementation of the Water Framework Directive.
  • ​Define User Requirements for the  information web portal WISE-RTD, which is part of the Water Information System for Europe
  • Populate the WISE-RTD by linking research water-related projects to the WFD policy statements allowing policy-makers and researchers to identify links and gaps.
  • Publish a final policy brief

SWIFT-WFD - Screening methods for Water data InFormaTion in support of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive
40 partners from 20 EU States
Total Budget: 6,7 Million Euros
Duration: 3 years (2004-2007)

XPRO Consulting was responsible for: