Project
Summary:
The technologies developed provide a speed-up of existing bioremediation techniques and will provide a tool-box to end-users with microbes for remediation
actions in different European climatic, geological and biological setting which will allow low-cost, sustainable, on-site bioremediation of metal contaminations.
At the same time, the introduction of a concerted, internationalized education of interdisciplinary trained PhD students across Europe will ascertain a
long-lasting, sustainable education profile with relevance to soil remediation. The involvement of government agencies is focussing on the possibility
to provide governments with fused guidelines for soil and water protection in a way that overcomes the practises of separated agencies by focussing on ecotoxicological
risks resulting from metal contamination on-site as well as by transport through water paths in ground water and international water ways. Dissemination
of results will be ensured by international congresses and publications. The management of an integrative, multi-partner consortium ensures the applicability
by combination of eight sites across Europe in one modeling approach which will cover Northern, Southern, Middle and Eastern European sites to guarantee future
applicability across Europe.
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Professor Paul Bardos