The 13th Forum will highlight the main challenges and opportunities in research, development and innovation when entering the global market, and aims to promote and support the international collaboration in eco-innovation. The Forum will look specifically at local, regional and global water challenges, and the need for partnerships, demonstrate technologies, methodologies and strategies for better water management in new markets and examine mobilisation of the necessary finance, investment and public-private partnerships. This year’s Forum will for the first time be combined with a brokerage event allowing Forum participants to form new partnerships and launch collaborative project proposals.The Lisbon Forum is organised by the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Environment, the Portuguese Environment Agency and the networks Eco-Innovera, EcoPol and Environmental-NCP-Together.The Location: FIL Meeting Centre, Rua do Bojador, Parque das Nações (next to the Atlantic Pavillion), 1998-010 Lisbon, Portugal.