| projects-491 |
887173 |
AQUASERS |
The European first generation of aquaculture SERS-based Biosensor |
H2020 |
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
2019-11-01 |
2020-02-29 |
Completed |
€ 000 071 429.00 |
Aquaculture industry has turned essential to fulfil the growing demand of fish & shellfish seafood. With latest global production peaked at 171 M tones in 2016, aquaculture represented 47% of the total and a first sale value of $232 billion. Nonetheless, in spite of its importance, yet the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease agents during the whole process is not sensitive neither fast enough. Consequently, aquaculture industry faces up to $6 billion per year of productivity losses due to uncontrollable diseases, because they are not identified on time.In response, we have developed the first equipment for the detection of infection diseases within minutes in aquaculture. Our solution uses antibody-gold nanoparticles that specifically capture the infection disease agents present in water sample. Once combined, the agent-antibody-nanoparticles cross a microfluid chamber that after been irradiating gives an amplified light signal if the agent is present. This signal is immediately detected by surface-enhanced RAMAN spectroscopy (SERS). Thanks to the sensitivity of the SERS-technology, our equipment enables a fast treatment respond within 30 min for three of the main infections in Europe affecting salmon, abalone and flatfish. Thus, thanks to AQUASERS equipment we will reduce the productivity losses for salmon, abalone & flatfishs in Europe and Worldwide. Furthermore, after 4-year sales, our product will give net revenues of ~€66.84M, net profits of ~€46.64M and considering the investment of €2.69M, a ROI of ~17.33 euro per € invested. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/887173 |
Coastal waters' |
| projects-492 |
101037097 |
REST-COAST |
Large scale RESToration of COASTal ecosystems through rivers to sea connectivity |
H2020 |
H2020-LC-GD-2020 |
LC-GD-7-1-2020 |
2021-10-01 |
2026-03-31 |
On going |
€ 018 482 592.50 |
REST COAST will demonstrate to what extent upscaled coastal restoration can provide a low-carbon adaptation, reducing risks and providing gains in biodiversity for vulnerable coastal ecosystems, such as wetlands or sea grass beds. By overcoming present technical, economic, governance and social barriers to restoration upscaling, REST COAST will develop the large-scale river-coast connectivity and increase the nearshore accommodation space for the resilient delivery of coastal ecosystem services (ESS). The selected ESS (risk reduction, environmental quality and fish provisioning) touch urgent coastal problems such as the erosion/flooding during recent storms or the accelerating coastal habitat degradation that seriously affects fisheries and aquaculture. By enhancing these ESS under present and future climates at 9 Pilots that represent the main EU regional seas (Baltic, Black, North, Atlantic and Mediterranean) we shall increase the commitment of citizens, stakeholders and policy makers for a long-term maintenance of restoration. Such commitment will go together with a transformation of governance and financial structures, supported by evidence-based results on restoration benefits for the welfare of coastal societies and assets. This transformation will build upon the results from hands-on restoration at the Pilots, steered by the multidisciplinary project advances. Combining new techniques, risk assessments, innovative financial/governance arrangements and homogeneous metrics for ESS and biodiversity, REST-COAST will develop a systemic approach to coastal restoration based on a scalable coastal adaptation plan. The plan will underpin a transformative change in governance and policies, proving the importance of the coastal dimension in the EU Green Deal for adaptation/mitigation under climate change. The proposed adaptation will facilitate replicating large scale restoration and introducing coastal ESS into national and international policies. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101037097 |
Wetlands', 'Coastal waters' |
| projects-493 |
687289 |
Co-ReSyF |
Coastal Waters Research Synergy Framework |
H2020 |
H2020-EO-2015 |
EO-2-2015 |
2016-01-01 |
2018-12-31 |
Completed |
€ 002 999 901.25 |
The Co-ReSyF project will implement a dedicated data access and processing infrastructure, with automated tools, methods and standards to support research applications using Earth Observation (EO) data for monitoring of Coastal Waters, leveraging on the components deployed SenSyF. The main objective is to facilitate the access to Earth Observation data and pre-processing tools to the research community, towards the future provision of future Coastal Waters services based on EO data.Through Co-ReSyF‘s collaborative front end, even young and/or inexperienced researchers in EO will be able to upload their applications to the system to compose and configure processing chains for easy deployment on the cloud infrastructure. They will be able to accelerate the development of high-performing applications taking full advantage of the scalability of resources available in the cloud framework. The included facilities and tools, optimized for distributed processing, include EO data access catalogue, discovery and retrieval tools, as well as a number of pre-processing and toolboxes for manipulating EO data. Advanced users will also be able to go further and take full control of the processing chains and algorithms by having access to the cloud back-end and to further optimize their applications for fast deployment for big data access and processing.The Co-ReSyF capabilities will be supported and initially demonstrated by a series of early adopters that will develop new research applications on the coastal domain, will guide the definition of requirements and serve as system beta testers. A competitive call will be issued within the project to further demonstrate and promote the usage of the Co-ReSyF release. These pioneering researchers in will be given access not only to the platform itself, but also to extensive training material on the system and also on Coastal Waters research themes, as well as to the project's events, including the Summer School and Final Workshop. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/687289 |
Coastal waters' |
| projects-494 |
694188 |
GlobalMass |
Global land ice, hydrology and ocean mass trends |
H2020 |
ERC-2015-AdG |
ERC-ADG-2015 |
2016-08-01 |
2022-11-30 |
Completed |
€ 002 397 430.00 |
Sea level rise will be one of the most serious and costly consequences of future climate change. Constraining the sources and sinks of sea level change is essential for understanding the drivers of past variations and for improving predictions of future behaviour. Matching estimates of sea level rise with the components that affect it is a long standing problem in geosciences spanning multiple disciplines: oceanography, glaciology, hydrology and solid Earth physics. Traditionally, each part of the problem has been tackled separately using different data, techniques and physical understanding. This is because of the challenge in determining just one component but also because of the different expertise and understanding within the various communities. The proposed research will, for the first time, tackle all components simultaneously. I will combine all the relevant observations (both from satellites and in situ) with physical principles of the coupled system to solve for all components of the sea level budget. First, I will produce a data-driven estimate for glacio-isostatic adjustment that is independent of any assumptions about Earth structure or ice loading history. Second, I will partition the sea level budget into its steric, hydrological, cryospheric and solid earth components for 1981-2020. Third, I will apply the methods and datasets to re-evaluate the 20th Century sea level record. These advances will also result in the determination of regional mass trends of land ice and hydrology over a ~30 year period. In the process of attaining these goals in geosciences, I will also develop state of the art techniques for statistical inference of Big Data. I have developed and tested the approach, using a subset of the data, for the Antarctic ice sheet. The approach is unique, global in scale and will address fundamental problems across four different disciplines in geosciences, as well as advancing techniques in statistical inference and computer science. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/694188 |
Coastal waters', 'Snow and ice', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-495 |
101107324 |
JustWATER |
JustWATER -- Water Decision Making tools for informed hydro politics in Italy |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01 |
HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01 |
2023-10-01 |
2025-09-30 |
On going |
No data |
Italy is the 1st European country to export crops irrigated from depleted groundwater sources. JustWATER will uncover exactly where in Italy export-led irrigation agriculture is exploiting the most vulnerable groundwaters and water-scarce areas, identifying bad virtual water GIS hotspots. JustWATER is a research aimed at providing Italian water experts and water decision-makers with a set of tools for informed actions in the realm of the hydro politics of the country. JustWATER connects irrigation patterns to crop-exports trends in Italy, producing GIS maps, graphic charts and socio-economic data to enhance water-related decision-making through virtual water analysis. The novelty of this research is the connection among sub-national levels of analysis (regional and district level) to global virtual water flows, exploring their social and environmental effects and paying attention to gender issues. Exploring the connection between irrigation trends and patterns of agricultural exports will lead to better understanding national water politics in Italy and can be replicated in other drought-prone EU countries.The researcher will get training and knowledge transfer, enhancing her employability and career prospects; the project will enhance the visibility of University of Bergamo in the forefront institutions that are active in both virtual water issues and water & gender enquiry, thanks to the gender-transformative tools enacted by the project. Interdisciplinary in nature, JustWATER will draw upon insights from Human Geography, Political Economy and Political Ecology. Introducing the sub-national scale of analysis constitutes a substantial theoretical innovation in the virtual water literature, which has so far concentrated on the global and national scale. JustWATER will provide policy-oriented tools and end-users data to serve citizen science and open science practices, allowing not only interoperability of research outputs, but also replicability in other countries. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101107324 |
Groundwater', 'Urban water' |
| projects-496 |
101136987 |
AWARD |
Alternative Water Resources and Deliberation process to renew water supply strategic planing |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-CL6-2023-CLIMATE-01 |
HORIZON-CL6-2023-CLIMATE-01-2 |
2024-01-01 |
2026-12-31 |
On going |
€ 003 690 612.50 |
AWARD recognises the urgency of action due to water scarcity and climate change impacts as well as the need to engage simultaneously the society, the science and the policy into the development of knowledge and strategic water planning. Therefore, AWARD will provide evidence-based solutions to consider AWRs into water supply strategic plans, based on socio-political engagement. The 4 Demo Cases of AWARD are already implementing AWRs (storm water, rainwater and aquifer recharge in Bucharest in Romania as well as in Milano in Italy; water reuse in Cyprus, storm water and rainwater in an industrial park in Santiago di Compostel in Spain). Through the project activities, Demo Cases will consider scaling up their actions taking in account a broader range of AWRs together with conventional water resources for planning future water supply systems at local or regional level using AWARD instruments (Local Water Fora, Digital Platform for decision making, training and guidance). They will address similar issues in a harmonised and coordinated way. Societal awareness to support the decision process on AWRs supply solutions will lead to the recommendations for further use of AWRs encompassing the 4 dimensions of social innovation (Technological, Capacity development, Governance & Policy, Economics & assessment). The AWARD AWRs catalogue will gather the project results and additional solutions which will be benchmarked. The digital platform provided by AWARD will support the exploration of resilient scenarios that will be promoted beyond the scope of the project thanks to dedicated networking activities.AWARD general objective is to provide evidence-based knowledge and lessons learnt on how to effectively integrate affordable, acceptable and reliable AWRs solutions into water supply strategic planning and implementation considering the effect of global changes. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101136987 |
Urban water', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-497 |
101135062 |
CisWEFE-NEX |
Circular Systemic Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus CCRI Demonstrator for Regions facing Severe Water Stress. |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-02 |
HORIZON-CL6-2023-CircBio-02-1-two-stage |
2024-06-01 |
2029-05-31 |
On going |
€ 011 084 718.22 |
Contributing to the CCRI project portfolio, CisWEFE-NEX will demonstrate the implementation of a circular systemic WEFE Nexus, an innovative, fully integrated, & sustainable approach applying the principles of circular economy for closing loops in the key value chains of food, water & nutrients in severely water stressed regions:1. Water:- A net positive freshwater balance to the water cycle (JRC 2021) will be achieved through combining olive mill wastewater reuse (as a co-product from biophenols extraction) with saltwater desalination at scale without using fossil fuels for use as drinking & irrigation water.- Waste streams from desalination (brine & bitterns) will be repurposed in nature-based solar saltworks as table & Epsom salt, made possible because of zero chemical use in the desalination process.2. Energy:- Cutting-edge renewable energy technologies will be developed & demonstrated to achieve a net-zero direct fossil GHG emissions process.- Agri-photovoltaics (crops under PV panels) and biogas from advanced (ultrasonic cavitation assisted) anaerobic digestion fed from olive mill & other biowastes.3. Food:- Innovative nature-based techniques will be demonstrated to enable truly sustainable, healthy, and fresh food & seaweed (containing bioactive compounds for pharma use) production at scale.- Saltwater integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (free of growth hormones, antibiotics, synthetic fertilisers, & preservatives).- Regenerative agriculture (organic permaculture reusing precious water & nutrients) and extractive reuse of biophenols from olive mill waste as bioactive products of very high nutri-pharmaceutical value.4. Ecosystems: - Monitoring of traditional & emerging (micro)pollutants using cutting-edge analytics will prevent harmful impacts on the environment & food grown from it with predictive alerts & remedies through a mobile controlled cavitation unit providing (waste)water treatment services (advanced oxidation processes, disinfection). |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135062 |
Rivers and estuaries', 'Water reservoir', 'Urban water', 'Coastal waters' |
| projects-498 |
101060428 |
StopUP |
Protecting the aquatic environment from urban runoff pollution |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-CL6-2021-ZEROPOLLUTION-01 |
HORIZON-CL6-2021-ZEROPOLLUTION-01-03 |
2022-09-01 |
2025-08-31 |
On going |
€ 003 766 439.75 |
Major progress has been achieved in protecting European freshwaters through the successful implementation of urban wastewater treatment infrastructures but significant pressures still pose threats to the quality of the receiving water bodies. The recent evaluation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive underlined that, in particular stormwater overflows including urban surface run-off and combined sewer overflows bring relevant pollutant loads into the aquatic environment. The pressure on water resources from those kinds of emissions is expected to aggravate through the impacts of global climate change with more frequent intense precipitation as well as more pronounced drought conditions. To address those challenges new ways in effectively mitigating pollution arising from urban run-off and sewer overflows are needed, providing effective load reduction, in a way affordable as well as acceptable to end-users and the society. The StopUP project will elucidate pollution pathways in urban catchments to enable targeted interventions through measures at source, retention and treatment. It will foster knowledge about emissions incl. pollutant release, transport and receiving water bodies through advanced monitoring concepts, online sensors and data processing and analysis. In the context of different case studies, innovative technologies for pollution prevention such as advanced retention soil filters for combined sewer overflow treatment which can be integrated better in urban areas will be further developed and tested. The tests will demonstrate integrated solutions including monitoring, treatment and control of diffusive pollution in different contexts concerning geographic, climatic and hydrological as well as socio-economic settings. Based on the findings, tools to support selection, implementation and operation of pollutant mitigation measures for end-users including environmental authorities, water boards/utilities, consultancies will be derived. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060428 |
Urban water' |
| projects-499 |
190191933 |
iFLUX |
Real-time flow and flux measurements for combating groundwater supply and pollution. |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 |
HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 |
2022-07-01 |
2024-10-31 |
Completed |
€ 003 464 312.89 |
iFLUX’ mission is to make groundwater visible! We have raised €1.36 million in equity & €1,185k through straight & convertible loans. With revenues from our developed paid projects, we brought our first product into the market: a passive flux sampler to measure & monitor 127 types of pollutants in the ground(water) and determine their impact. Today, our sampling technology has been used by 100+ customers across the EU and generated revenues €750k+. These customers include companies such as DOW, Total, ERM & Arcadis. A scalable real-time groundwater flow & flux sensing probe is our urgent development pipeline because monitoring groundwater dynamics is complex and requires highly accurate & real-time data to create a better understanding of aquifer behavior over time and spatially. With our sensing probe, we will be the next generation water monitoring solution by visualizing and integrating the dynamics of groundwater and its pollution. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/190191933 |
Groundwater' |
| projects-500 |
101157247 |
PartArt4OW |
Participatory Art for Society Engagement with Ocean and Water |
HORIZON |
HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01 |
HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01-11 |
2024-09-01 |
2027-02-28 |
On going |
€ 001 937 562.50 |
In line with the objectives of “Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030” and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, PartArt4OW aims to (1) strengthen the emotional attachment between society and the oceans and waters; (2) raise awareness of challenges these face; (3) develop a strong transdisciplinary and trans-European network of artistic and creative communities to protect and restore oceans and inland water; (3) support policymakers in working towards sustainable ocean and water policies. To this end, PartArt4OW focuses on participatory art and creative processes on the belief that participation can bring about a deeper engagement of people with the problem of ocean and water health by performing arts themselves. Building upon the belief that art and the creative sector can contribute to the EU Mission Starfish 2030 priorities, PartArt4Ocean mobilises artists, citizens and other stakeholders in realising 20 multi-stakeholder Participatory Art Initiatives (PAIs). All modes of artistic expression and synergies with EU-funded projects are welcome. Selected PAIs receive physical resources, human capital (training, experience, mentorship, relationships and feedback) and organisational capital (structure, planning, monitoring, and internal relationships) through a PartArt4OW Accelerator Program. To support PAIs, PartArt4OW also organises stakeholder engagement and ecosystem-building activities, including Ambassadors Network engaged in mutual learning exercise and the operationalization of ParArt Sailing Lab equipped with sustainable sailing and artistic production facilities on board to visit and connect creative communities engaged in PAIs. Matchmaking events and PartArt Festivals bootstrap the possibilities of artistic communities and creative sector stakeholders to significantly contribute to citizens' connection with the ocean and the waters. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101157247 |
Coastal waters' |
