Project description
For a pollution-free Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea faces a pressing challenge: chemical contamination and build-up. With anthropogenic influence surging since the industrial revolution, this pristine waterway is now vulnerable to emerging concerns. With this in mind, the EU-funded iMERMAID project will integrate, coordinate and synergise innovative solutions that prevent, monitor and remediate chemical contaminants. It will construct a multidimensional framework, underpinning policymaking and altering societal perspectives. Cutting-edge sensors and remediation methods will be advanced, tackling contaminants at their source while curbing upstream pollution. By bringing together SMEs, researchers, regulators and innovation professionals, iMERMAID aims to strengthen regulations, boost economic prospects, enhance EU residents’ quality of life and, ultimately, create contaminant-free waters in the Mediterranean.
Objective
The Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding regions support a diverse variety of essential socioeconomic activities. It is one of the highly exploited water ways and the influence of anthropogenic activities on its marine habitats and ecosystems has grown significantly since the industrial revolution. Because of this, the Mediterranean Sea basin is very vulnerable to chemical contamination and buildup. To safeguard the Mediterranean Sea basin from contaminants for emerging concerns (CoEC), iMERMAID will integrate, coordinate, and synergize innovative preventive, monitoring, and remediation solutions. iMERMAID will build an evidence-based multidimensional framework that will guide policymaking and transform societal perceptions to reduce CoEC usage, emissions, and pollution. Furthermore, next generation sensor and remediation solutions will be developed within iMERMAID to monitor and remove prioritized chemicals from its source while reducing upstream pollution. iMERMAID builds an ideal interdisciplinary team by bringing together prominent SMEs, researchers, regulators, and innovation professionals who have been essential in improving the knowledge and awareness of CoEC. Beyond state-of-the-art techniques, iMERMAID will strive to strengthen regulations against CoEC, expand economic possibilities and competitiveness, improve the standard of living for EU residents, while preventing the accumulation of chemical pollution in the Mediterranean Sea basin. iMERMAID will empower the efforts to create a zero pollution, contaminant free waters by enabling the Chemical Strategy's goals to become a practical reality.
Fields of science
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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Participants (26)
75015 Paris
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40500 Jyvaskyla
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10135 Torino
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19013 Attikia Anavissos
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49035 Angers Cedex 01
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02150 Espoo
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6300 Larnaca
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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6029 Zrig Gabes
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50121 Florence
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D02 XE80 LOWER DUBLIN
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75008 Paris
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47012 Valladolid
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26101 PANCEVO
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1095 Nicosia
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10152 Torino
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9537 TC Eesergroen
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9537TC EESERGROEN
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712 02 HERAKLION
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8144 HASELSDORF-TOBELBAD
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20131 Milano
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1944 BEVERWIJK
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10115 Berlin
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2022 ARIANA
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21000 Novi Sad
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03056 KYIV
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