Objective The World is running out of clean, safe, fresh water. By 2025 one third of humanity (ca. 3 billion people) will face severe water scarcity. This has been described as the "single greatest threat to health, the environment and global food security". Water is essential and preservation of its safety in quantity and in quality is critical to the sustainable development of any society. The goal of this project is to make a contribution to meet this challenge. The protection of water in the European Union has been encouraged through the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The intention of WFD is to protect water resources (quality and quantity) through an integrated water resource management policy. Wastewater treatment is an important aspect of water management. Efficient, cost effective treatment processes are needed for transforming wastewater into water free from contamination, which can be returned to the hydrological cycle without detrimental effects. The development and application of MBR for full-scale municipal wastewater treatment is the most important recent technical advance in terms of biological wastewater treatment. It represents a decisive step further concerning effluent quality by delivering a hygienically pure effluent and by exhibiting a very high operational reliability. The overall objective of EUROMBRA is to develop a cost-effective, sustainable solution for new, efficient and advanced municipal wastewater treatment based on MBR technology. This will be achieved through a multi-faceted, concerted and cohesive research programme explicitly linking key limiting phenomena (fouling, clogging) observed and quantified on the micro-, meso-. and macro-scale. Key to the success of the programme is the harnessing specialist knowledge, conducting of dedicated yet interlinked experiments and incorporating key aspects of both system design and operational facets, the latter encompassing hydrodynamics and mass transfer, foulant speciation and dynamic impacts. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesengineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactorsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologymedical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutritionengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-2004-3.II.3.2.2 - Advances in membrane bio-reactor technologies for municipal wastewater treatment Call for proposal FP6-2004-GLOBAL-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator NORGES TEKNISK - NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET EU contribution No data Address Hogskoleringen 1 TRONDHEIM Norway See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (17) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Cranfield BEDFORDSHIRE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data EAWAG - EIDGENOESSISCHE ANSTALT FUR WASSERVERSORGUNG ABWASSERREINIGUNG UND GEWAESSERSCHUTZ Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Ueberlandstrasse 133 DUEBENDORF See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ERFTVERBAND Germany EU contribution No data Address Paffendorfer Weg 42 BERGHEIM / ERFT See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FLOWCONCEPT GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Vahrenwalder Strasse 7 HANNOVER See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE TOULOUSE France EU contribution No data Address Avenue de Rangueil 135 TOULOUSE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLOGICA Portugal EU contribution No data Address Av. da Republica, Quinta do Marques OEIRAS See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KOCH MEMBRANE SYSTEMS GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Krantzstr. 7 AACHEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MILLENNIUMPORE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Unit 9, Spire Road, Glover Network Centre WASHINGTON, TYNE & WEAR See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data POLYMEM SA France EU contribution No data Address Impasse de Palayre TOULOUSE See on map Total cost No data RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Germany EU contribution No data Address Templergraben 55 AACHEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Julianalaan 134 DELFT See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNESCO-IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Westvest 7 DELFT See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Belenzani 12 TRENTO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER II France EU contribution No data Address Place Eugene Bataillon 2 MONTPELLIER See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL South Africa EU contribution No data Address University Road, Chiltern Hills WESTVILLE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY Australia EU contribution No data Address Broadway SYDNEY See on map Total cost No data WATERSCHAP HOLLANDSE DELTA Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Johan de Wittstraat 40 DORDRECHT See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data