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About SWITCH: Project Partners
How did SWITCH work?
The SWITCH Consortium represented academics, urban planners, water utilities and consultants. This network of researchers and practitioners worked directly with civil society through 'learning alliances' in twelve global cities. These are platforms which bring city stakeholders (utilities, planners, NGOs, finance departments etc) together with researchers. Other methods used to accelerate the sharing and adoption of more sustainable urban water solutions across different geographical, climatic and socio-cultural settings were demonstrations, research, training and knowledge sharing.
The SWITCH Consortium had 33 partners around the world, listed alphabetically below:
- University of Abertay, Dundee, United Kingdom
- ARUP, United Kingdom
- AYTO Municipality of Zaragoza, Spain
- University of Birmingham, UK
Rae Mackay * ** - CEDARE Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe, Egypt
- CQU Chongqing University, China P.R.
- EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland
- ETC-UA Urban Agriculture, Netherlands
- FHH, Hamburg Municipality, Germany
- University of Greenwich, United Kingdom
- HCU HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany
- HUJI Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Avner Adin * - HWE House of Water and Environment, Palestine
- ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, European Secretariat, Germany
- IGSNRR Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources Research, China P.R.
- IPES Promocion del desarrollo sostenible, Peru
- IPS Ingeniergesellschaft Sieker, Germany
- IRC International Water and Sanitation Center, Netherlands
John Butterworth * - IWMI International Water Management Institute, Ghana
- KNUST Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
- University of Łódż, Poland
- MEKOROT Israel National Water Company, Israel
- Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Mike Revitt * ** - NTUA National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- PBH Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte, Brasil
- TUB Technical University Berlin, Germany
- TUHH Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
- UFMG Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
- UNAL Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
- UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Netherlands
Gary Amy **, Carol Howe *, Kala Vairamoorthy * **,
Peter van der Steen *, Meine Pieter van Dijk ** - UNIVALLE Universidad del Valle, Colombia
- Wageningen University, Netherlands
Adriaan Mels * - WEDC, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Ian Smout *
* Member of Management Team; ** Member of Scientific Committee
External members of the Scientific Committee:
- Prof. David Butler – Exeter University, UK
- Prof. Pradeep Mujinder – Indian Institute of Science, India
- Dr. Cyrus Nijru – African Development Bank, Africa
- Prof. Wolfgang Rauch – University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Dr. Alberto Tejada-Guibert – UNESCO-IHP, France