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Hydrochip

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background Surface water quality has been deteriorating in recent decades, due to the emission of chemical compounds (e.g. heavy metals, pesticides, nutrients and fertilisers), physical alterations (e.g. infrastructure, dams and fixed water levels) and the presence of harmful organisms such as cyanobacteria. Due to climate change, the latter is becoming a ...
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Demonstration of an innovative process to produce biobased plastic out of cellulose recovered from domestic waste water (cellu2plaLIFE+)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Jul 1, 2017,

Background Waste water treatment focuses on the quality of the effluent as well as on the efficiency of the treatment process. The negative impacts of waste water treatment (energy use, CO2 and sludge production) are accepted as inevitable. Nevertheless, waste water treatment plants (WWTP) have considerable ecological footprints. In the Netherlands, for e ...
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Climate Adaptation Mainstreaming through Innovation (CAMINO)

Start date: Feb 8, 2013, End date: Jan 2, 2015,

CAMINO reconciles economic growth (Europe2020) and climate adaptation. It delivers innovative governance approaches and business cases that support mainstreaming climate adaptation in local investment projects and product/service development. CAMINO builds upon results of MARE, SKINT, SAWA (NSR), FRC (NWE) & BaltCica (BSR) and enriches its 5 regional Partnerships with industry and (inter)national ...
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North Sea Skills Integration and New Technologies (SKINT)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The project is focusing on to integrate and create knowledge on different methods to empower water in interdisciplinary urban development and planning processes. The project has significant relevance for national and EU policy evaluation and the project supports the implementation of the Floods Directive (FD) and the Water framework Directive (WFD). The project will develop a SKIN Water portal, wh ...
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Restoration of brackish ecosystems in Westzaan polder (Verbrakking Westzaan)

Start date: Sep 1, 2006, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

Background In the past, the Westzaan Natura 2000 site was an area of brackish water due to a regular inflow of salt water. However, since the closure of the Zuider Zee in 1932 by the Afsluitdijk between Friesland and Noord-Holland, the water has become fresh, threatening the ecological value of the site. Westzaan is one of the few areas where a former bra ...
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NORIS : No Rainwater in Sewers (NORIS)

Start date: Feb 25, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

Noris had four concrete aims:• Introducing modern sustainable technologies in the area of rainwater disconnection;• Testing and adapting technologies developed in pilot projects; • Building awareness and understanding of sustainable planning and management of rainwater runoff, both among spatial planners and politicians;• Producing an Inspiration Book, to be spread amongst spatial planners. ...
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