Project description
Protecting freshwaters from metals and climate stress
Freshwaters are at increased risk because of metal pollution and climate change. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the CLIMETAL project aims to study how metals extensively used in the energy transition (e.g. lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, rare earth elements), interact with extreme climate events (droughts and floods) regarding their availability and impact. These events influence the capacity of metals to be taken up by organisms and to become harmful to aquatic life. CLIMETAL will monitor chemical behaviour of metals, their levels and fate as well as how they affect aquatic organisms (biofilms and invertebrates). CLIMETAL will examine how extreme climate events affect metal ecotoxicity, informing on how freshwater environments may be protected against metal pollution and climate change.
Objective
Freshwaters simultaneously receive a high diversity of contaminants, metals being amongst the most toxic. The growing use of metals for energy transition (e.g. electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels) is exposing freshwater ecosystems to unknown threats. These also suffer from the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme climate events (i.e. droughts and floods), which may cause hydric stress, physical abrasion, lower dilution, or contaminant pulses. These overall influence metal bioavailability and expose the biota to unknown toxicological effects. CLIMETAL will address these challenges by exploring the fate of metals used in energy transition, including those with understudied toxicity (lithium, rare earth elements, etc.), as well as their separated and sequential biological effects under the hydrological alterations associated to droughts and floods. CLIMETAL will investigate the influence of these alterations on metal bioavailability, and the subsequent consequences for their bioaccumulation and ecotoxicological effects. Bioavailability of metals will be estimated by modelling their chemical speciation and by measuring their labile concentrations, giving rise to a collaboration with physical chemists (= secondment). Metal bioaccumulation as well as biological and functional effects on freshwater ecosystems will be assessed using primary producers (biofilms) and primary consumers (invertebrates). These two biological compartments are connected and provide a complementary response to the metal exposure under distinct hydrological alterations. The proposal adopts an interdisciplinary approach involving ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry, ecology and modelling and combines complementary methods from laboratory (microscosm, mesocosm) to fieldwork. Data generated in CLIMETAL will contribute to fulfill the European Green Deal, which aims to reduce the impact of climate change and environmental pollution as well as protect ecosystems.
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.
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry alkali metals
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences biological sciences zoology invertebrate zoology
You need to log in or register to use this function
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
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.
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.
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01
See all projects funded under this callCoordinator
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
17003 Girona
Spain
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.