Project description
To inform and revolutionise aquatic monitoring globally
Rising aquatic hazards and pollution pose a critical threat to our waters, demanding urgent intervention. The current challenges in monitoring these issues, often centralised and inefficient, hinder effective mitigation. In this context, the EU-funded AquaBioSens project is poised to revolutionise aquatic monitoring. For instance, it introduces handheld devices to measure emerging contaminants, microbial biohazards, and heavy metals. Aligned with the EU Mission to restore oceans by 2030, the project will pioneer cutting-edge techniques like immunoassays, RNA quantification, and novel biosensors. Ensuring accessibility, low-cost fabrication strategies empower industry operators and government agencies in environmental monitoring. Real-time data feeds and a dedicated live dashboard enhance data flow, while prototype devices undergo validation in polluted environments.
Objective
AquaBioSens aims to drive the decentralisation of tools for the measurement of aquatic hazards and pollution. We will produce and demonstrate new handheld devices to measure contaminants of emerging concern, microbial biohazards and heavy metals. The aim is to make monitoring more efficient and widely accessible, supporting the EU Mission to “Restore our ocean and waters by 2030” Mission, and specifically the Destination “Clean Environment and Zero Pollution”, as well the Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive. We will achieve this by developing novel analytics based on cutting-edge techniques: i) immunoassays to measure organic contaminants, ii) isothermal environmental RNA quantification for harmful microalgae and fecal coliform bacteria, and iii) two novel whole cell biosensors based on genetically modified diatom microalgae and fish gill epithelia for multiplexed heavy metals quantification and toxicity assessment. These will be coupled with state-of-the art sensors such as acoustic biosensors, multichannel fluorimetry and organ-on-chip microfluidic devices. Low-cost fabrication strategies will ensure that the developed technologies are accessible to end-users, such as industry operators and government inspection agencies responsible for environmental monitoring. New digital real-time data feeds will enable seamless data flows from sensors to the web, including a dedicated live dashboard. The prototype devices will be demonstrated and validated in potentially polluted coastal and freshwater environments in the UK, Ireland and Greece, with the support of local government inspection agencies. Together with measures to disseminate results widely to the international community, stakeholders and citizen science groups, we will maximize exploitation with a view to commercialize the new technologies in future.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors biosensors
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics RNA
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies microtechnology organ on a chip
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION-01
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70 013 IRAKLEIO
Greece
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