Food-Water-Energy Nexus / Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) (Nexus)
This Collaborative Research Action (CRA) was a joint call by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe and sought to bring together fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. The call sought to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The importance of this focus is underscored by the rapid urbanization of the world’s population. This CRA was launched in 2016 and the projects ended in 2022.
This CRA was supported by ANR, ARRS, BMBF, BMWFW, DLR, ESRC, FAPESP, FFG, Formas, FWO, Innovate UK, Innoviris, JST, MINCyT, MOST, NCN, NSF, NWO, QNRF, RCN, START, SWEA, UEFISCDI, UKRI, and VIAA.
Fifteen projects were selected:
| Creating Interfaces | Building capacity for integrated governance at the food-water-energy-nexus in cities on the water |
| CRUNCH | Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus |
| ENLARGE | ENabling LARGE-scale integration of technology hubs to enhance community resiliency via DDS in various urban FWE nexuses |
| FUSE | Food-water-energy for Urban Sustainable Environments |
| SUNEX | Formulating sustainable urban FWE strategy by optimizing the synergies between food, water and energy systems |
| GLOCULL | Globally and LOCally-sustainable food-water-energy innovation in Urban Living Labs |
| IN-SOURCE | INtegrated analysis and modelling for the management of sustainable urban FWE ReSOURCEs |
| METABOLIC | Intelligent Urban Metabolic Systems for Green Cities of Tomorrow: an FWE Nexus-based Approach |
| CITYFOOD | Smart integrated multitrophic city food production systems – a water and energy saving approach for global urbanisation |
| FEW-meter | The FEW-meter – an integrative model to measure and improve urban agriculture towards circular urban metabolism |
| M-NEX | The Moveable NEXUS: Design-led urban food, water and energy management innovation in new boundary conditions of change |
| IFWEN | Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities Click here to see a visual story about this project’s results |
| Urbanising in Place | Building the food water energy nexus from below |
| Vertical Green 2.0 | Vertical greening for liveable cities – innovation to facilitate the breakthrough of an old concept |
| WASTE FEW ULL | Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Lab – Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus |