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Automatic control system to add organic waste in anaerobic digesters of WWTP to maximize the biogas as renewable energy (LIFE ECOdigestion)
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2017,
Background
Energy generation is the main contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. For that reason, renewable energies, such as biomass, must play a fundamental role in climate change mitigation.
At the same time, improving waste management in order to achieve a completely circular economy remains another EU priority. The agri-food industries produce sub ...
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SmartH2O: an ICT Platform to leverage on Social Computing for the efficient management of Water Consumption (SmartH2O)
Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,
Description
SmartH2O: an ICT Platform to leverage on Social Computing for the efficient management of Water Consumption
The SmartH2O project develops an ICT platform for improving the management of urban and peri-urban water demand thanks to the integrated use of smart meters, social computation, ...
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Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe (ENHANCE)
Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,
The main goal of the ENHANCE project is to develop and analyse new ways to enhance society’s resilience to catastrophic natural hazard impacts, by providing new scenarios and information in selected hazard cases in close collaboration with stakeholders, and by contributing to the development of new multi-sector partnerships (MSPs) to reduce or redistribute risk. Innovation in MSPs is essential, a ...
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Integral Management Model for Phosphorus recovery and reuse from Urban Wastewater. (LIFE PHORWater)
Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
Background
Eutrophication can occur when a body of water acquires a high concentration of nutrients - phosphates and nitrates â from agricultural, industrial and urban effluents. Systems to efficiently remove nitrogen have been relatively successfully developed; however the elimination of phosphorus components still needs to improve if the EU legislativ ...
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Transitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow (TRUST)
Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,
The European project initiative TRUST will produce knowledge and guidance to support TRansitions to Urban Water Services of Tomorrow, enabling communities to achieve sustainable, low-carbon water futures without compromising service quality. We deliver this ambition through close collaboration with problem owners in ten participating pilot city regions under changing and challenging conditions in ...
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Iberlinx II - Acção territorial transfronteiriça de conservação do lince-ibérico (0407_IBERLINX_II_6_P)
Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
OBJECTIVOS: Qualificar e promover o desenvolvimento dos territórios transfronteiriços abrangidos pelo projecto através da conservação e valorização dos seus espaços naturais, expressando essa qualificação e aumento de valor através da conservação do lince-ibérico. ACÇÕES: Controlo e Segurança do território (vigilância de incêndios; controlo da caça ilegal); Gestão do habitat (culturas para a fauna ...
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Legionellosis: risk reduction to public health from environmental sources using biotechnology in the textile sector. (TEXLEGIO)
Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jan 1, 2012,
Background
Legionella bacteria â the cause of Legionnaires' disease â are classified as a public health risk of environmental origin. The bacteria are found in natural aquatic environments and is most common in warm countries such as those of the Mediterranean. Some of these waters are used as a source for drinking water in cities, which means that th ...
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Iberlinx - Acção territorial transfronteiriça de conservação do lince – ibérico (0016_IBERLINX_6_P)
Start date: Jan 11, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2010,
OBJECTIVO: Garantir condições óptimas de habitat potencial para o lince-ibérico, de modo à sua posterior reintrodução/translocação e apoio ao funcionamento do centro de cria português, promovendo um efeito demonstrativo e multiplicador sobre outras áreas rurais adjacentes. Comunicação da sustentabilidade ambiental do projecto e impacto positivo no turismo.ACÇÕES: 1) Gestão dos habitats e das popul ...
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