Mission
PerFORM WATER 2030 intends to create a long-term experimental platform for research, development and validation of innovative technologies, processes and
decision-making tools, in order to assure an increasingly efficient management of the public urban water.
The vision that inspired the activities of PerFORM WATER 2030 is well summarized in the words pronounced by Alessandro Russo,
president and CEO of CAP Group, during the presentation of the project.
"With PerFORM WATER 2030 we want to transform our plants and our structures into real living laboratories for innovation.
Alessandro Russo, CAP Group's president and CEO
The goal is to create a network of industrial companies and research centers that, with a multidisciplinary approach, can contribute to innovation in the sectors that characterize our activity: water quality, energy recovery and resources with a view to circular economy, cost analysis and pricing.”
Vision and strategy
PerFORM WATER 2030 will create a living lab of strategic importance for the public water management sector. Innovative technologies and practices will promote a more efficient and sustainable future for the Integrated urban water management. The project aims to support water utility managers, so that they can act as key players and promoters of innovation in the water sector.
The project will take place in various wastewater treatment plants managed by CAP Group in the Metropolitan City of Milan and it will focus on 4 main thematic areas,
whose research activities will be supported by transversal implementation and dissemination actions
(or further information, please refer to the specific web-page dedicated to project activities of PerFORM WATER 2030).
This line of action also includes an action aimed at thermally exploiting the sludge, recovering energy and raw materials from purification activities.
Innovation as a way to solve present challenges
PerFORM WATER 2030 is a unique opportunity for the Lombardy Region and the entire country to create a widespread research platform
for the development of technologies and decision-making tools aimed at improving the performance of the Integrated urban water management.
Professor Francesca Malpei of Politecnico di Milano, describes about the complex relationship between challenges and innovation in the Integrated urban water management that is a main theme of the PerFORM WATER 2030 project:
“PerFORM WATER 2030 will promote the development of innovative technologies and new methodological approaches to sector-oriented research, thus leading to new paradigms in water management, in the perspective of sustainability, resource recovery and circularity”.
Francesca Malpei, full professor of Wastewater Treatment at Politecnico di Milano and scientific coordinator of the project
Research and experimentation in wastewater treatment plants
Desdemona Oliva - Research & Development Director - CAP Group
Innovation: project's expected results and perspectives
Francesca Malpei - Scientific coordinator - Politecnico di Milano
Lombardy Region funding
PerFORM WATER 2030 project is funded within the framework of the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020 and the Lombardy Region call "Accordi per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione".
