ZINNAE is the aragonese water cluster. Resource efficiency (water and energy) is a key regional priority included in the Smart Specialization Strategy (one of the three priority areas). In terms of economic development, other priority areas for aragon are agriculture and logistics. Water is essential for both. One million people live in our Region. Most of them, concentrated in Zaragoza, a city of 700,000 inhabitants, often used as a medium-sized city laboratory for market analysis. In Zaragoza, there is one of the largest eco-districts in europe, a sustainable neighbourhood of 9,000 houses with bioclimatic, water efficiency, lightening and irrigation approaches for urban sustainability: Ecociudad Zaragoza. Beyond Zaragoza, Aragon is mostly rural, with 75% of the municipalities having less than 500 inhabitants. Agriculture represents up to 10% of the gross regional product. With extreme weather conditions (and a pluvioumetry of 200 mm a year in some areas), aragonese farmers are devoted to efficient irrigation in terms of water and energy.
ZINNAE's business members are within the whole water value chain, including water industry technology providers, enginering services, water utilities (also international companies with offices in Aragon); and bath plumbing manufacturer. Together they represent more than 30% of the water sector of Aragon and up to 136 Million € turnover. ZINNAE was born as a enabler of collaboration for innovation among the water stakeholders regionally, and beyond, specially through European funding schemes. Since 2014 we have an alliance with Centro de Competencias del Agua, the water cluster of Peru based in Lima for collaborative projects that support both the peruvian and spanish water performance. We are specially devoted to support our SME for competitiveness of our economy, our researchers and our Region.
With a team of two people and a huge network of European contacts, we are an ambitious association that supports the internationalisation and innovation approaches for smart water and energy management in urban, rural, industry and agriculture practices.
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