Project description
Innovative bioremediation technologies
Biotechnology plays a central role in the elimination of several pollutants and mixtures in contaminated wastewater, groundwater, soil and sediment. The EU-funded ELECTRA project will deliver two innovative sets of pioneering electromicrobiology technologies aiming to accelerate the elimination of pollutants in contaminated soil, sediment and waters. The project relies on environmental technologies that facilitate and improve electron transfer during microbial degradation processes. The first set uses bioelectrochemical systems that require low energy and no chemical addition. The second uses electromicrobial technologies that do not require energy and need minimal chemical amendment. The project is an EU-China research and technological development joint initiative profiting from recent innovations in biotechnology for the development of environmental bioremediation applications.
Objective
The ELECTRA project is a EU-China RTD joint initiative that will deliver 2 innovative sets of novel electromicrobiology based environmental biotechnologies, facilitating/improving electron transfer during microbial degradation processes. Our approach will accelerate the elimination of several classes of pollutants and mixtures thereof in contaminated wastewater, groundwater, sediment and soil. The first set of biotechnologies employs bioelectrochemical systems requiring low energy input and no chemical addition. The second set comprises biotechnologies, which necessitate no energy input and minimal chemical amendment using electromicrobial concepts. ELECTRA biotechnologies will build on recent groundbreaking advances in biotechnology to develop them for environmental bioremediation applications and test the 4 most advanced technologies during field trials under various environmentally relevant conditions in both Europe (4 sites with contaminated wastewater, groundwater, soil, and sediment) and China (4 sites: mirroring tests concept) to prove their efficiency and robustness. The ELECTRA project deliberately addresses the accelerated elimination of compounds representative of hydrocarbons and derivatives, emerging pollutants, metals and nutrients and mixtures thereof in environmentally relevant concentration as a wise and careful approach taking into account the real problem of contaminations by organic and inorganic pollutants as well as nutrients. ELECTRA is a consortium of European and Chinese partners for a 4-year project. The EC-funded consortium gathers 17 partners from 6 EU countries,1 Associated Country. 1 large Chinese company is part of the EC consortium without claiming any funding from the EC since NSFC finances only fundamental research and does not allow for the inclusion of companies as partners in NSFC projects. This company has a key/essential role in replicating field test experiments from European sites to Chinese sites. The NSFC-funded consortium is constituted by five research institutions acting as international partners.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistrybioelectrochemistry
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediation
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbons
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmonetary and finances
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
100085 BEIJING
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
230026 Hefei
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
210093 NANJING
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
210095 NANJING
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
100101 Beijing
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40126 Bologna
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731 00 Chania
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17004 Girona
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9000 Gent
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00185 Roma
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00185 Roma
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04318 Leipzig
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73344 Gruibingen
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1111 Budapest
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45141 Essen
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41820 Carrion De Los Cespedes
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
9032 Gent-Wondelgem
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1690 Villaz-St-Pierre
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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100082 BEIJING
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CH-3003 Bern
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00144 Roma
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300192 TIAJIN
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