D5.3 SPLASH E-CONFERENCE REPORT: “TOWARDS BETTER WATER POLICIES: HOW CAN INCREASE IN THE UPTAKE OF RESEARCH FINDINGS HELP?”

Gaps have been identified between research, policy and practice at each stage of designing, conducting and communicating research to policy makers and practitioners, which serve to hinder the use of research. The SPLASH ERA-Net seeks to address these problems of utilizing research in policy through exchanging experiences between EU Member States and Developing Countries.

This report firstly provides a description of the e-conference in terms of what are its aims and objectives in relation to the SPLASH project.Details of subscriber numbers and countries of origins are also given.

There follows a summary of the discussion is structured around the questions posed and the content addressed, i.e. theme 1 – week 1, theme 2 – weeks 2 and 3, and theme 2 - week 4.

Each of these main sections includes the summary report given by the e-conference facilitators at the end of the discussion period with which they were involved.