On 29 April 2024, one of the eight targeted OneWater projects was launched: SoluTest - PC6, dedicated to adaptation and resilience solutions for socio-hydrosystems. This 7-year research project (2024-2031) will contribute to the various challenges of the OneWater - Eau Bien Commun programme, including Challenge 4: Adaptability and resilience.
The aim of PC6 is to define and then test resilience solutions on demonstration sites, whether these solutions are nature-based, technical or technological, relating to the circular economy or to modes of governance. SoluTest will be divided into three phases:
1) Define what a solution is, and then identify relevant systems for testing the implementation of sustainable solutions.
2) Assess the potential for extrapolation and generalisation of these solutions and their limitations
3) Stabilise a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness, successes and failures of these solutions, in conjunction with PC3 and PC7 for in-situ tests.
Jérémy Piffady, Chief Engineer of bridges, water and forests at the Riverly INRAE research unit, and Christophe Douady, Professor and researcher at the Laboratory of Ecology of Natural and Anthropised Hydrosystems (LENHA) at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, are coordinating this project.