Objective The proposed project focuses on heavy and heterogeneous soil formations contaminated with heavy hydrocarbons mixtures and intends to develop and provide to the soil remediation market the cost-effective and highly efficient soil remediation technique applied in-situ to remove historical oil contamination and accidentally or intentionally deposited oil. The proposed technique will be applicable to all types of oil (including crude and heavy oil) in different soil profiles and convenient to use in areas difficult to approach. This would be achieved by developing three separate elements based on different bioremediation solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of soil remediation practice and further combining them into integrated technique. The overall three-step treatment or selective treatment elements can be applied on a specific site in order to reach the environmental goals in the most cost-efficient way. The different options for remediation actions will be selected taking into account soils current use and approved future use. The consortium combines know how on ecological biotechnology, environmental research and research on soil and soil structures. Contract research will be performed by a Lithuanian, Spanish and Danish research institutions which provides a unique integration of know how on biologically active compounds, environmental and soil remediation technologies. Application of the SORBENT soil remediation technique will reduce both the clean up time and total costs by 25%. The soil contaminated by oil pollutants remediation market will have a value of over 0.93 billion EUR in 2011 for EU. More than 35% or about 0.33 billion EUR of this market will be covered by in situ techniques. Thus, development of the SORBENT technique has potential savings of over 0.08 billion EUR annually. Such savings could contribute to a reduction of some economic and social problems that are caused by the contamination. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbonssocial sciencessociologysocial issues Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2008-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator UAB GROTA EU contribution € 371 570,00 Address Eisiskiu pl. 26 02184 Vilnius Lithuania See on map Region Lietuva Sostinės regionas Vilniaus apskritis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Danguole Draguniene (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HIMAL Poland EU contribution € 141 805,00 Address Traktorowa 17b 91-116 Lodz See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ryszard Chudzik (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data CLEAN-BIOTEC SLL Spain EU contribution € 167 759,00 Address Calle san jose de calasanz 11 26004 Logrono See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Angélica García García Alvaro (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WILD BERRY ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 200 367,00 Address High street TN8 9AF Edenbridge See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Linda Baharier (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DEKONTA, a.s. Participation ended Czechia EU contribution No data Address Dretovice 109 27342 Stehelceves See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Petra Najmanova (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UAB BIOCENTRAS Lithuania EU contribution € 2 500,00 Address Graiciuno 10 02241 Vilnius See on map Region Lietuva Sostinės regionas Vilniaus apskritis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Egidijus Baskys (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data L'UREDERRA, FUNDACION PARA EL DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO Y SOCIAL Spain EU contribution No data Address Área industrial perguita c/a n°1 31210 Los arcos See on map Region Noreste Comunidad Foral de Navarra Navarra Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Ana Esparza Hermoso (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DANISH INNOVATION INSTITUTE A/S Participation ended Denmark EU contribution € 183,00 Address Fruebjergvej 3 2100 Kobenhavn See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Sébastien Allibe (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data OSAUHING EESTI INNOVATSIOONI INSTITUUT Estonia EU contribution € 317,00 Address Sepapaja 6 11415 Tallinn See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Lauri Nirgi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data