Description du projet
S’attaquer à la pollution des sols pour restaurer les écosystèmes
L’Europe est confrontée au défi majeur de réduire la pollution des sols et de promouvoir la restauration écologique. Les conséquences destructrices de la pollution des sols, qui vont de la baisse de la productivité agricole à la dégradation des écosystèmes, exigent une attention immédiate. Dans ce contexte, le projet EDAPHOS, financé par l’UE, entend révolutionner les pratiques de gestion des terres. Cherchant à réduire la pollution des sols et à améliorer la restauration, EDAPHOS propose une approche holistique qui combine des solutions basées sur la nature (NBS pour «nature-based solution») et des technologies de pointe pour accélérer la récupération des terres contaminées et faire de la restauration écologique une entreprise courante. En développant un cadre pour la réhabilitation des terres, en menant des évaluations complètes des risques et en validant l’efficacité des stratégies NBS, EDAPHOS vise à établir un marché européen NBS autonome et reproductible, porteur d’espoir pour un avenir plus sain.
Objectif
EDAPHOS proposes a holistic and innovative land management approach to contribute to the Mission “A Soil Deal for EU” and to its specific objective “Reduce soil pollution and enhance restoration”. EDAPHOS will develop a framework for land rehabilitation and ecological restoration of contaminated areas featuring nature-based solutions (NBS) technologies, to accelerate the recovery of contaminated lands to a healthy ecosystem status and making ecological restoration a mainstream business endeavor. EDAPHOS will improve the monitoring of contaminated soils and the understanding of precise pollution sources at selected EU regions by combining robust remote sensing tools and GIS-based methods that will be applied at representative territorial lands. Site-specific risk assessment methods and metrics, based on the TRIAD concept and considering the sources, the pathways, the exposure and effects of soil pollution, will be developed and applied on 7 case studies. EDAPHOS will perform lab and field studies to validate the technological readiness and the cost-effectiveness of NBS as effective remediation strategy for reducing soil contamination in urban, peri-urban and rural settings and land uses. EDAPHOS will assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of selected NBS sites and will develop the most suitable quantitative metrics and KPIs that depict accurately and reliably their integrated socio-environmental performance in both terms of economic benefit (e.g. growth of ecosystem services value, final phytoremediation compounds for further industrial valorization) and cost prevention (e.g. environmental footprint reduction) potentials, along with tailored ecological finance instruments for establishing a self-sustained and replicable EU NBS market. With the aim of providing data-driven tools for forecasting, analyzing and establishing quantitative relationship of multi-scale processes, artificial intelligence techniques will be implemented throughout the project.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationphytoremediation
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
25000 BESANCON
France