The primary objective of NOWELTIES is to organize a platform (European Joint Doctorate) that will provide cutting edge training opportunities for the education of tomorrow's water treatment experts. The core activity is the research programme (composed of 14 individual research projects) aimed at the development of innovative water treatment technologies (advanced biological treatments, innovative oxidation processes, hybrid systems) that allow catering for the varied treatment demands for a plethora of interconnected streams arising from recycling loops. These technologies will be able to control contamination by organic micropollutants (OMPs) and improve the recovery of water across a diversity of scales enabling a smart combination of decentralized and centralized approaches. Besides a holistic training in the field of wastewater treatment dealing with state-of-the-art technologies, experimental techniques, and knowledge management methodologies, NOWELTIES will provide a unique training approach to learning complex complementary skills leading to independent and critical thinking which seeks for originality and innovation.This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 812880.