Objective
The overall goal of UMBRELLA is to use microorganisms to develop cost-efficient and sustainable measures for soil remediation at heavy metal contaminated sites throughout Europe. This will be facilitated by research in microbiology, plant uptake and (hydro)geochemistry centers on the study of microbial influence on metal biogeochemical cycles and their impact for use in soil and water protection. The technologies developed provide a speed-up of existing bioremediation techniques and will provide a tool-box to end-users with microbes for remediation actions in different European climatic, geological and biological setting which will allow low-cost, sustainable, on-site bioremediation of metal contaminations. At the same time, the introduction of a concerted, internationalized education of interdisciplinary trained PhD students across Europe will ascertain a long-lasting, sustainable education profile with relevance to soil remediation. The involvement of government agencies is focussing on the possibility to provide governments with fused guidelines for soil and water protection in a way that overcomes the practises of separated agencies by focussing on ecotoxicological risks resulting from metal contamination on-site as well as by transport through water paths in ground water and international water ways. Dissemination of results will be ensured by international congresses and publications. The management of an integrative, multi-partner consortium ensures the applicability by combination of eight sites across Europe in one modeling approach which will cover Northern, Southern, Middle and Eastern European sites to guarantee future applicability across Europe.
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Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2008-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
07743 JENA
Germany
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Participants (14)
00196 Roma
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LL57 2DG Bangor
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971 87 Lulea
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050663 Bucuresti
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31007 KRAKOW
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1010 Wien
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01328 Dresden
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70182 Orebro
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47002 VALLADOLID
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09124 Cagliari
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SY23 3BF Aberystwyth
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96313 Budy Grzybek
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00142 ROMA
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1220 Wien
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