Projects
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IMDROFLOOD: Improving Drought and Flood Early Warning, Forecasting and Mitiga...
Strengthen drought and flood forecasting and early warning is essential to improve adaptation to climate change. IMDROFLOOD plans different actions to improve the mitigation of... -
DOMINO: Dikes and Debris Flows Monitoring by Novel Optical Fiber Sensors
Floods are among the most disruptive natural events threatening our Society. Just in Europe and in the last decade, floods have killed more than 1000 people and caused damages... -
AWARE-ASSESSING THE FATE OF PESTICIDES AND WATERBORNE CONTAMINANTS IN AGRICUL...
Two main issues have a high impact in the agricultural food production: the lack of water resources in some European countries and pollution with pesticides. The use of... -
OPERA-Operationalizing the increase of water use efficiency and resilience in...
Agriculture is confronted with changing weather patterns. For farmers this implies higher risks related to crop growth and field work conditions. Adequate, timely and spatially... -
LEAP-Legacies of Agricultural Pollutants: Integrated Assessment of Biophysica...
Widespread nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizer use threatens water quality and aquatic ecosystems. Agricultural best management practices (BMPs) have been implemented in... -
PROGNOS: PREDICTING IN-LAKE RESPONSES TO CHANGE USING NEAR REAL TIME MODELS
Lakes and reservoirs are under continuous pressure from urbanization and agricultural intensification, and from changes in climate, including an increasing occurrence of extreme... -
CLEARANCE-CircuLar Economy Approach to River pollution by Agricultural Nutrie...
Riverine wetlands provide a range of ecosystem services: cultural (esthetics, recreation and education), provisioning (storage and retention of water), supporting (soil... -
Pioneer_STP - The Potential of Innovative Technologies to Improve Sustainabil...
Pioneer_STP addresses the challenges related to wastewater treatment (WWT) from a holistic perspective. Concepts such as resource recovery, sludge management, energy balance... -
PERSIST - Fate and peristence of emerging contaminants and MRB in a continuum...
Emerging organic contaminants (EOCphoto peps), such as pharmaceutical compounds, and mutli-resistant bacteria (MRB) represent a growing public health concern. Their source are... -
WaterFARMING Improvement of water and nutrient retention and use efficiency i...
WaterFARMING goal is to enhance the water and nutrient retention capacity and improve use efficiency (Challenge 1) in diverse arable production systems across Europe and N.... -
SOSTPRO - SOurce STream (headwater) PROtection from forest practices: what a...
Source streams, or headwaters, are often provided with the least protection from forestry and other land uses. However, the impact on ecological status of small streams from... -
METAWATER - New metagenomics and molecular based tools for european scale ide...
The overall aim of the project is to develop European scale tools for the rapid evaluation of the role that irrigation water has in the transmission of existing, new and... -
THERBIOR: Thermal energy recovery from a novel sequencing batch biofilter gra...
THERBIOR focuses on the development, implementation and diffusion of technologies to improve energy efficiency in wastewater treatment plants using a solar-assisted heat pump... -
STEEP STREAMS - Solid Transport Evaluation and Efficiency in Prevention: Sust...
The recent increase in intensity and frequency of meteorological and hydrological events in mountainous areas is recognized as one of the effects of climate change. Extreme... -
DESERT - Low cost water desalination and sensor technology compact module
The main aim of DESERT project is to create an innovative concept as a smart system combining sustainable technology on water treatment and water quality sensors, tuned to the... -
MOTREM - Integrated processes for monitoring and treatment of emerging contam...
The project aims to provide new technologies for water treatment and/or improving the existing ones through the development of integrated processes for monitoring and treatment... -
AQUAVAL - Valorisation of water use in aquaculture using multi trophic systems
AquaVal is framed in the subtopic in Challenge I the "water reuse and water recycling technologies in the agriculture and freshwater aquaculture sectors", with clear relation to... -
StARE - Stopping antibiotic resistance evolution
The goal of StARE (Stopping Antibiotic Resistance Evolution) is to protect European citizens’s health and the environment via water quality research, by minimizing the impact of... -
Eutro-SED-Eutrophication hotspots resulting from biogeochemical transformatio...
This project endeavours to address the current lack of understanding of which P fractions on fluvial and stream bed sediments are more bioavailable and degrade water quality,... -
ProWsper-How to PROtect Water, Soil and Plants production all togethER
The need for innovative strategies for water and soil protection that substitute the time-, energy- and resource-consuming remediation processes with other more efficient and... -
AgWIT - Agricultural Water Innovations in the Tropics
Identify improvements in resource use efficiencies and environmental performance of key crops produced via alternative water and soil management strategies under rainfed and... -
POTENTIAL-Variable rate irrigation and nitrogen fertilization in Potato; enga...
With a total acreage of more than 5 200 km² in all four countries, potato is an important agricultural crop in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Germany. In the... -
REWATER- Sustainable and safe water management in agriculture: Increasing the...
Water is a natural resource vital for social wellbeing and agriculture economy. Yet, during the past decades, geographic and climatic features, as well as active release of... -
SIM: Smart Irrigation from Soil Moisture Forecast using Satellite and Hydro M...
The work aims at developing an operational tool for real-time forecast of irrigation water requirements to support parsimonious water management in case of actual or forecasted... -
WE-NEED: WatEr NEEDs, availability, quality and sustainability
Groundwater (GW) is a major source of water supply in Europe. This natural resource is endangered by several factors, such as improper water management policies, including... -
INXCES - INnnovations for eXtreme Climatic Events
The main objectives of INXCES are: (1) development of innovative methods for risk assessment, (2) mitigation methods for extreme hydroclimatic events, (3) optimization of... -
ABAWARE - Advanced biotechnology for intensive – freshwater aquaculture waste...
Aquaculture is currently estimated to be the fastest-growing area of food production in the world. Although aquaculture can provide an important food source, these types of... -
IMPASSE – Impacts of MicroPlastics on AgrosystemS and Stream Environments
While it is widely known that microplastics (MPs) in the ocean are a serious environmental problem, the threat posed by MPs in agricultural lands is almost entirely unknown. A... -
TRACE - Tracking and assessing the risk from antibiotic resistant genes using...
Given the serious public health threat posed by antimicrobial resistance, it is important to investigate the potential role of surface water in amplifying the emergence and... -
ECOSAFEFARMING-DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A NOVEL PHOTOCATALYTIC SYSTEM FOR E...
This project aims to bring a solution to water and energy issues by achieving an optimized and energy free disinfection of urban wastewater using novel solar assisted-treatment... -
Water4ever Optimizing water use in agriculture to preserve soil and water re...
Optimizing water use in agriculture to preserve soil and water resources. More Main outputs Gao, Q., Zribi, M., Escorihuela, M.J., Baghdadi, N., 2017. Synergetic Use of... -
MeProWaRe - Novel methodology for the promotion of treated wastewater reuse ...
In the Mediterranean countries, there is an urgent need to develop novel methodologies to build trust among the different water users in terms of economic and environmental... -
SMARTECOPONICS-on-site microbial sensing for minimising environmental risks f...
The main objective of SMARTECOPONICS is the design and development of a novel approach for monitoring the main biological hazards affecting consumers of aquatic foods. This... -
AGRINuPeS*: INTEGRATED MONITORING AND CONTROL OF WATER, NUTRIENTS AND PLANT P...
Sustainability and competitiveness of European agriculture are intrinsically related to the efficient use of water, fertilisers and Plant Protection Products (PPP), for... -
Biorg4WasteWaterVal+: Bioorganic novel approaches for food processing waste w...
Food processing industry uses a large volume of fresh water to deliver safe food for humanity, which is obtained from public water providers or ground and spring water sources.... -
PROMOTE - PROtecting water resources from MObile TracE chemicals
Drinking water quality is potentially threatened by the release of chemicals that we are producing and using. If these chemicals are water soluble and poorly degradable or if... -
ACWAPUR - Accelerated Water Purification during Artificial Recharge of Aquif...
Water is essential for life, not only for direct consumption, but also for sanitary requirements, and for agricultural and industrial production. Pure drinking water is a... -
INNOMED - Innovative Options for Integrated Water Resources Management in the...
There is a need to achieve a better understanding of the interactions between land use and climate and their effect on water resources in order to improve long-term sustainable... -
WATINTECH: Smart decentralized water management through a dynamic integration...
The WATINTECH project proposes a combination of concepts of sewer mining with urban run-off treatment in decentralized treatment facilities to enhance the recovery of valuable... -
FRAME - A novel Framework to Assess and manage contaminants of Emerging conce...
Emerging water pollutants (e.g., antibiotics, household chemicals) and pathogens (e.g. antibiotic-resistant bacteria, viruses) are only partially removed by conventional... -
IRIDA: Innovative remote and ground sensors, data and tools into a decision s...
Efficient agriculture water use is of crucial importance for water resources management. Evapotranspiration is an important part of the water cycle, as it is the sum of... -
FORWARD -Operational monitoring and FOrecasting system for Resilience of agri...
The main objective of FORWARD is to understand and increase the resilience of water resources of agricultural systems and forestry through data mining and modelling in a Big...