Project description
Bioremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants with circular value creation
Growing industrial and agricultural activity is leading to increasing contamination of surface water, groundwater, soils and sediments with heavy metals, chemical discharge, organic waste and more. Microorganisms have complex metabolic pathways enabling them to break down a vast range of organic compounds and absorb inorganic substances. Bioremediation relies on these living organisms to remove or neutralise pollutants. The ambitious EU-funded SYMBIOREM project will develop 12 bio-based technologies and strategies as modular solutions to enhance bioremediation efficiency, use secondary inputs and valorise residues and contaminants. The solutions will target the four most common pollutants of soil and groundwater in Europe as well as mixed contamination, eutrophication, organic micropollutants and microplastics.
Objective
The overall goal of SYMBIOREM is to improve the effectiveness, sustainability, circularity and cost-efficiency of bioremediation and revitalisation strategies for soils, sediments, surface water and groundwater. SYMBIOREM focuses on the intersection of advanced bioremediation methods with circular bio-based systems. Twelve novel bio-based technologies and strategies are developed as modular solutions to mutually enhance bioremediation efficiency, use secondary inputs, and turn residues and contaminants into valuable resources. SYMBIOREM investigates the exploitation potential of indigenous species with bioremediation capabilities, including microorganisms, microbiomes, proteins, plants and animals.
SYMBIOREM targets five archetypes of contaminated environments: industrial brownfields, mixed solid waste landfills, urban surface water bodies with mixed contamination, contaminated soils and surface water bodies, and European marine environments. SYMBIOREM targets the four most common pollutants of soil and groundwater in Europe: heavy metals, mineral oil, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) and Volatile Aromatic Hydrocarbons (VAH). The project also targets mixed contamination, eutrophication, organic micropollutants and microplastic. SYMBIOREM recovers a diverse portfolio of resources from contaminated sites, including several Critical Raw Materials (CRM). SYMBIOREM will deliver new knowledge about bioremediation agents, their functionality in combination, as well as hazards of pollutant remobilisation.
SYMBIOREM elaborates new avenues for circular value creation and empowers people on the ground by involving citizens and key stakeholders in participatory research, co-design and co-management of bioremediation sites, to facilitate bottom-up replication and increased safety and sustainability of bioremediation and revitalization strategies in aims to achieve the targets of the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediation
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbons
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processes
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48940 Leioa
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48170 Zamudio
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100 44 Stockholm
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1140 Wien
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50-375 Wroclaw
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1090 Nicosia
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1217 LA Hilversum
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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40126 Bologna
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4020 Linz
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20720 Azkoitia
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00185 Roma
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7000 Eisenstadt
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Fresno
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UB8 3PH Uxbridge
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DA12 2BG Gravesend Kent
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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