SEDNET Demand driven, European Sediment Research Network
Country: EU Projects
Start Date:           Duration: 36 months         Project Type: RTD
Contract Number: EVK1-CT-2001-20002
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Brownfields
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Contaminants overview
Soil-->Erosion
Soil-->Processes
Soil-->Soil Overview
Soil-->Soil quality
Project objectives: 
SEDNET will provide a European platform where organisations responsible for the sustainable management of river basin/fresh water body related sediments 
and dredged material (problem owners) can meet and communicate with organisations (problems solvers) that help to provide solutions to their problems, in 
the form of tools, knowledge, technologies and expertise needed for that management. This platform will support, catalyse, optimise or facilitate: (1) demand 
driven research activities, (2) exchange of information between these activities, (3) co-operation between problem solvers and problem owners, (4) dissemination 
to, and exploitation of knowledge by problem owners, (5) publication of research results and (6) inform public and decision-makers. Furthermore, SEDNET 
aims to complement existing EU networks and thematic working groups and aims to be an advisory board to European, national and regional authorities on sediment 
issues, and indirectly assist with their policy implementation
Project Summary: 
Sediments mainly got local attention of water managers confronted with man-made sediment-traps, especially when associated contamination poses an environmental 
or human risk. More and more managers, port authorities and researchers express the need to exchange, at least at river basin level, these local experiences 
and to develop sediment management guidelines based on a multidisciplinary, co-ordinated and harmonised approach. Due to the trans-boundary nature, no 
single water manager or country has the responsibility for solving sediment management problems at river basin level.   
SEDNET will provide an international platform to facilitate information and knowledge exchange and to produce a joint document, containing recommendations 
and guidelines for integrated, sustainable management of sediment, from local to river basin level.
Achieved Objectives: 
The SedNet mission is to be a European network for environmentally, socially and economically viable practices of sediment management on river basin scales. 
Due to the trans-boundary nature, no single water manager or country has the responsibility of solving sediment management problems at such a scale. SedNet 
is established to help to structure and facilitate a European approach on this issue.  
SedNet, amongst others, organises conferences and workshops where those responsible for the management of riverine sediments and dredged material can 
meet the experts who provide them with the demanded management tools, technologies and expertise. The knowledge thus disseminated will be cumulated into 
a guideline for integrated, sustainable sediment management, from local to river basin level.
Product Descriptions: 
The SedNet mission is to be a European network for environmentally, socially and economically viable practices of sediment management on river basin scales. 
Due to the trans-boundary nature, no single water manager or country has the responsibility of solving sediment management problems at such a scale. SedNet 
is established to help to structure and facilitate a European approach on this issue.  
  
The available Products are:  
  
-The Sednet Booklet  
-The Sednet Strategy Paper
Additional Information:
Project Resources:

SEDNET - European Sediment Network

The Sednet Booklet Final Version: Contaminated Sediments in European River Basins.

The Sednet Strategy Paper: The opinion of SedNet on environmentally, socially and economically viable sediment management

Contaminated Sediments in European River Basins

EC FP7 research recommendations by SedNet

Sediment Management - an essential element of river basin managment plans
Weblink:
http://www.sednet.org/default.asp
Funding Programme(s): 
EC Framework Programme 5
Link to Organisations:
Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Dr Stefan Gödeke  Who does what?  03/03/2005 09:02:00