Objective
The project examines the feasibility of cost-effective systems for the treatment and valorisation of aquaculture farm effluent, and the re-use of products and by-products of such systems, providing a solid base for reducing the environmental impact of commercial aquaculture and reinforcing the sustainable development of the sector. Systems and applicable technology will be designed, according to well-defined parameters, for installation in 3 European sites that are geographically/environmentally and operationally different. Their efficiency to prevent recipient ecosystem pollution will be verified and monitored through analytic characterisation of water, waste and the recipient wetland ecosystems. Finally, the system output products and by-products will be fully identified and characterized, accompanied by identification of the potential and means of their further use. The research programme encompasses a series of interdisciplinary and interconnected work packages which will complementarity contribute to the investigation of the technological, biological, physiological, ecological, environmental and economical aspects related to mentioned topic.
The work packages contain well-defined tasks for laboratory investigations (RTD performers) and/or field work (European fish farms). A specific training technical programme for SME staff and young European researchers will be developed. This will be accompanied by the application of a capillary dissemination plan to allow the effective transfer of the innovative skills and technology developed by this project to the European aquaculture sector. A consortium agreement between the participants, regarding the purpose of the collaboration, their interest in the exploitation of the results and IPR management and access, will clearly define all the rights, obligations and responsibilities of the partners. This agreement will be finalised upon implementation of the project, in agreement with the FP6 Rules for participation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2002-SME-2
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
SAINT-JEAN-D'LLAC
France
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