WP & Deliverables

WP1

Sustainable and nature-based solutions as applied innovative technologies for wastewater treatment

Lead beneficiary: Université de Montpellier (France) – Dr Serge Chiron

Main objectives: natural based-solution for wastewater treatments will be first confirmed at lab scale and then implemented on existing experimental platforms for the validation of the first application of proposed technology solutions to irrigate selected crops. This will be obtained through: (i) selecting a subgroup of indicator emerging contaminants to evaluate treatments efficiency, (ii) development and optimization of the proposed treatments to improve removal of emerging biological pollutants, and (iii) the achievement of better and more suitable treatment of non-conventional water resources according to local needs and standards.

This WP consists of five tasks aiming at:

T1.1: Water characterization and definition of the SAFE framework
T1.2: Preparation of Materials for wastewater treatment
T1.3: Decontamination
T1.4: Disinfection
T1.5: Modelling

WP2

Impact of wastewater irrigation on: uptake of contaminants, effects on the metabolism of plants, soil microbial diversity and function, and salinity

Lead beneficiary: ICRA (Spain) – Dr Gianluigi Buttiglieri

Main objectives: water safe reuse will be ensured by a complete effluent characterization by determining parameters covering (i) wastewater quality, (ii) food quality, (iii) biodiversity indexes and (iv) irrigation conditions in order to better assess the environmental and human health risks.

This WP consists of four tasks aiming at:

T2.1: Antioxidant activity and secondary plant metabolites, and organic micropollutants uptake
T2.2: Evaluation of soil biodiversity
T2.3: Human health risks assessment
T2.4: Irrigation modes

WP3

Plant environmental adaption and biotic/abiotic stress resilience

Lead beneficiary: ELGO (Greece) – Dr Afronditi Tsampalla

Main objectives: to test and mitigate the negative impact of water reuse on salinity and soil biodiversity.

This WP consists of four tasks aiming at:

T3.1: Renewable Energy Sources (RES) to minimize energy carbon footprint
T3.2: Employment of modern –omics tools and in-depth physiology parameters to explore plants’ response and adaption to wastewater
T3.3: Use of sustainable practices such as vegetable grafting to adapt to water reuse
T3.4: Solutions for increasing biodiversity

WP4

Large Field Pilot implementation and Demonstration

Lead beneficiary: CERTE (Tunisia) – Dr Samia Khadhar

Main objectives: this WP consists of four field studies. Experimental fields will be applied in Tunisia and Algeria, pilot plant in Morocco and greenhouse hydroponic in Greece. Each situ will demonstrate how the transfer technology will be adapted to local situations for increased crop production, through implementation to a modelling study and training courses/video clips. The communication and integration with local farmers and public governance will be fundamental.

This WP consists of four tasks aiming at:

T4.1: Pilot implementation in Tunisia
T4.2: Pilot implementation in Morocco
T4.3: Pilot implementation in Greece – greenhouse
T4.4: Pilot implementation in Algeria
T4.5: Technical economical data analysis of pilot unit in Morocco

WP5

Modelling, optimization and evaluation of economic impact

Lead beneficiary: SAPIENZA (Italy) – Prof. Antonio Zuorro

Main objectives: to evaluate the effects of the new practices in terms both of economic results of the farms and of cost/benefits in a collective perspective. All data on (i) the environmental impact, (ii) the production yields, (iii) the social impact and (iv) the feasibility of the knowledge transfer activity will be combined and evaluated all together to conduct to a model able to predict any excise conditions and to find optimized process for any specific boundary set.

This WP consists of four tasks aiming at:

T5.1: Analysis of the effects of SAFE practices on farm economic returns
T5.2: Analysis of organizational and financial constraints that may limit the adoption of SAFE practices
T5.3: Cost/benefit analysis
T5.4: Development of an optimization model

WP6

Management, integration of the results and dissemination

Lead beneficiary: UNIBAS (Italy) – Dr Monica Brienza

Main objectives: (i) to share the results of the project with stakeholders (farmers, intermediaries, policy makers, researchers and consumers), (ii) to set up local user committees, (iii) to maximise the existing communication channels and network of consortium partners, and (iv) to ensure a smooth running of the project and timely competition of the tasks, (v) integration of the results and their dissemination

This WP consists of four tasks aiming at:

T6.1: Internal Overall Coordination (Reporting)
T6.2: Communication inside and outside consortium
T6.3: Exploitation Activities and Sustainability
T6.4: Large Result Dissemination

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Deliverable 1.3 – Report on the high rate anaerobic bioreactor prototype, optimization of the operating conditions and preliminary tests results
Deliverable 1.6 – Validated model able to predict any behaviour in consequence of specific process conditions
Deliverable 2.2 – Reports on sampling protocols and evaulation of soil biological quality
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