WATERLINE: Transforming Advanced Water Skilling Through the Creation of a Network of Extended-Reality Water Emulative Centres

Water Line旨在创建一个基于四螺旋创新模式的欧洲数字水高等教育机构(HEI)联盟，以促进联盟的研究、教育和创业能力的发展。这将利用变革的结构性和可持续的学习和创新环境所需的个人、机构和区域资源。为了实现这一目标，Water Line有五个具体目标：(1)通过共同创建共同治理框架和研究与创新(R&I)能力建设计划来支持联盟的巩固；(2)共同创建主要级别的水组件组合，并将合作伙伴扩大高等院校的竞争实验室转变为辅助和虚拟现实。这些结构变化将导致R&I高等院校的转型和更具竞争力；(3)通过实施暑期学校等活动，加强水资源研究人员的研究与开发能力，以提高教育和R&I技能，并举办提案撰写讲习班；(4)建立一个欧洲学者/研究人员网络，他们将与四重螺旋行动者一起，使知识在水资源领域和扩展现实技术中得以流动。这使得区域行为者能够更多地参与研究和投资进程，并加强了一个重大的社会挑战：与水有关的教育。此外，它还将通过学术界对企业的会议和黑客马拉松来加强学术和商业联系，将创业思维纳入主流。最后，Water Line将通过(I)建立大使网络，(Ii)确定R&I资金状况，从而增加对高等教育的参与和水领域资源的调动，以及(Iii)与欧盟倡议、机构、其他项目和网络创造协同效应，来维持联盟。

WATERLINE aims to create a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance, based on the quadruple helix model of innovation, leading to the development of the Alliance’s research, educational and entrepreneurship capacities. This shall leverage the individual, institutional and regional resources required for a transformative structural and sustainable learning and innovation environment. To achieve this, WATERLINE has five specific objectives: (1) support consolidation of the Alliance by co-creating a common governance framework, and a Research & Innovation (R&I) capacity building plan; (2) co-create a portfolio of water components for Master level and transform emulative laboratories in partner Widening HEIs into assisted and virtual reality. These structural changes will lead to transformed and more competitive R&I HEIs; (3) strengthen WATERLINE researchers’ R&I capacity excellence by implementing activities, such as summer schools to enhance education and R&I skills, and proposal writing workshop; (4) build a European network of academics/researchers who, together with quadruple helix actors, will allow knowledge flow in water domains and extended reality technologies. This allows greater involvement of regional actors in the R&I process and enhances one of the major societal challenges: water-related education. Moreover, it will strengthen academic and business links through academia-tobusiness meetings and a hackathon to mainstream entrepreneurship mindsets. WATERLINE will, finally, (5) sustain the alliance by, (i) establishing ambassador networks, (ii) identifying the R&I funding landscape, thus increasing participation in HE and the mobilisation of resources in the water sphere, and (iii) creating synergies with EU initiatives, institutions, other projects and networks.