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This June, the 2026 EU Green Week comes back; this year's theme is: "Investing in a nature-positive economy", demonstrating that it is essential for Europe’s prosperity, resilience, and competitiveness to invest in nature. Water4All is part of the Partner Events, running the whole month of June.

This event is the EU's largest annual environmental conference organized by the European Commission. It allows exploring the transition to more sustainable and circular models for Europe, addressing pressing environmental challenges.

High-level conference to open this EU Green Week

The high-level conference in Brussels (3–4 June) is a dynamic programme combining:

  • panel discussions, 
  • TED-like talks, 
  • cinema nights, and
  • a dedicated startup-investor matchmaking event. 

It will explore how nature-positive models work in practice, focusing on profitable farming, soil health, greening cities, and innovative financing to reverse rural flight. Bringing together policymakers, investors, farmers and civil society, EU Green Week 2026 is where environmental ambition meets economic reality.

You can still join ONLINE! Register now

Water4All Partner Event on June 17

Throughout June, Green Week partner events will demonstrate how nature-based investments can generate positive and lasting benefits for businesses, individuals, and communities at local and regional levels throughout Europe and beyond.

  • Water4All is organising, on June 17, 2026, an online webinar as an EU Green Week Partner Event.

This online event - organised to mark the Desertification and Drought Day - provides an excellent opportunity for outstanding research projects to promote their key achievements and disseminate their results to a wide audience.

It will showcase the results of research & innovation projects funded in the framework of the 2022 joint transnational call for projects on the management of water resources - resilience, adaptation & mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events & management tools. 

Five selected cutting-edge research projects address diverse challenges, ranging from urban water management to nature-based solutions (NbS), sustainable agriculture, and water use and reuse.

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The Water4All Partnership - Water Security for the Planet - is a funding programme for scientific research in freshwater. It aims to tackle water challenges to face climate change, help to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and boost the EU’s competitiveness and growth.

It is co-funded by the European Union within the frame of the Horizon Europe programme (a key funding programme for research and innovation). The Partnership duration is for seven years from 2022.

The Water4All objective is to enable water security at a large scale and in the long term. Its goal is also to tackle water issues in a holistic frame. 

All forms of life on earth need water. All human activities operate with this resource. Water is part of our everyday life. It is also integrated within urban and countryside landscapes. It is one of the most valuable elements we share with plants and animals.

These simple facts must be kept in mind to understand the Water4All ambition.

This resource is weakened in many places due to climate changes, and human habits. We know that we can improve the way we use water. Everyone has a role to play and especially the scientific research community.

Scientific research is the heart of the Partnership as It is a powerful tool to improve knowledge on preserving, restoring, and managing this essential resource. 

International cooperation is also needed as water has no borders on Earth and runs from one country to another.

Water4All brings together a broad and cohesive group of 90 partners from 33 countries in the European Union and beyond. This consortium gathers partners from the whole water Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) chain.