Environmental Risk from Ionising Contaminants: Assessment and Management (ERICA)

Objective

The objective of ERICA is to provide an integrated approach to scientific, managerial and societal issues cerned with the environmental effects of taminants emitting ionising radiation, with emphasis on biota and ecosystems. The final outcome of the project will be the ERICA integrated approach to assessment and management of environmental risks from ionising radiation, using practical tools. The project will partly build on the achievements of the FASSET project, which provided a basic framework for the assessment of environmental impact of radionuclides. The objectives of the ERICA project will be fulfilled through development of a user-friendly assessment tool with risk characterisation methodologies coupled with communication strategies aimed at decision-making. This involves detailed sideration of gaps in scientific data, expansion of the current effects database, and experimental and theoretical sideration extrapolation issues, e.g. from effects on individuals to effects on populations. The tool will be tested and applied to a series of case studies and supported by stakeholder interaction. The development of science-based managerial guidance, including methodologies for stakeholder involvement in assessments, will be based on a number of meetings with end-users representing a range of different interests, whom have agreed to participate in ERICA. The meetings will be cerned with different scientific and managerial aspects of assessments, including the development of methodologies to derive standards. Emphasis will be put on disseminating the progress of the work through tinuous interaction with the end-users. A workshop will be organised towards the end of the project to demonstrate to end-users how the integrated approach developed within this project can be practically applied within a European dimension.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › nuclear chemistry › radiation chemistry

Programme(s)

• FP6-EURATOM-RADPROT - Thematic priority - Radiation Protection as part of the specific framework programme for the European Atomic Energy Community, within the multi-annual framework programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

EURATOMCALL2003-FIXEDDEADLINE
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

STATENS STRAALSKYDDSINSTITUT

Address

Solna Strandväg 96
Stockholm
Sweden

Participants (14)

SVENSK KAERNBRAENSLEHANTERING AB

Sweden

Address

Brahegatan 47
5864 Stockholm

FACILIA AB

Sweden

Address

Valsgaerdevaegen 12
Bromma

Links

SOEDERTOERNS HOEGSKOLA

Sweden

Address

Alfred Nobels Allé 7
Huddinge

STATENS STRAALEVERN

Norway

Address

Grini Naeringspark 13
Oesteraas/oslo

CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGETICAS, MEDIOAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLOGICAS

Spain

Address

Avenida Complutense 22
Madrid

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

United Kingdom

Address

Rio House, Waterside Drive, Aztec West
Almondsbury, Bristol

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

United Kingdom

Address

Senate House, Abercromby Square
Liverpool

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

United Kingdom

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Swindon

WESTLAKES SCIENTIFIC CONSULTING LIMITED

United Kingdom

Address

Westlakes Science And Technology Park
Moor Row / Cumbria

SATEILYTURVAKESKUS - RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY

Finland

Address

Laippatie 4
Helsinki

INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE

France

Address

77-83 Avenue Du General De Gaulle
Clamart

Links

GSF - FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER UMWELT UND GESUNDHEIT GMBH

Germany

Address

Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1
Neuherberg

NORGES LANDBRUKSHOEGSKOLE

Norway

Address

Kirkeveien 1
5003 Aas

ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE

France

Address

22-30 Avenue De Wagram
Paris