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FOREWARN

Development a smart forewarning system to assess the occurrence, fate and behaviour of contaminants of emerging concern and pathogens, in waters.

Description

Development a smart forewarning system to assess the occurrence, fate and behaviour of contaminants of emerging concern and pathogens, in waters.

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Overview

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Duration

Sep 2021 - Sep 2024

Type of action

Joint Call

Impact

Development a smart forewarning system to assess the occurrence, fate and behaviour of contaminants of emerging concern and pathogens, in waters

FOREWARN will assess the occurrence, fate and behaviour of contaminants of emerging
concern (CECs) and pathogens, and develop machine-learning methods to model their transfer and behaviour and build a decision support system (DSS) for predicting risks and propose mitigation strategies. FOREWARN will be focussed on CECs such as antibiotics and pathogens such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) and emerging viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2.
Using large datasets from previous research, FOREWARN will establish the basis of the relationships between the conditions of a particular aquatic environment such as the hydrological and geological conditions, clime, drought and floods, the anthropogenic stressors such as water supply, wastewater discharges, type of wastewater discharges, among many others, and the emerging pollution that is CECs and emerging pathogens.
The project will consider 2 types of case studies:

1. In-silico case studies will be selected from previous results and dataset obtained in past or ongoing EU projects. Data will be used to develop the models and algorithms to feed and develop the DSS system to better understanding the sources, transport, degradation of CECs and pathogens and modelling their behaviour.
2. The adaptive DSS system will be refined and tested under real environmental conditions to achieve TRL5 in real environment case studies.

Expected research results

Occurrence fate and behavior of CECs and pathogens of case study areas.

Machine-learning methods to model CESs and pathogens transfer and behavior, and a decision support system (DSS) for predicting risks and propose mitigation strategies.

Project consortium

Project coordinators: Esteban ABAD & Marinella FARRÉ

Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) - Spain

Communication contact:

Esteban ABAD - eahqam(at)cid.csic.es / Marinella FARRÉ - mfuqam(at)cid.csic.es

Partners:

Leena Maunula, University of Helsinki (UH), Finland

Sandra Martin-Latil, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), France

Kevin McGuinness, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland

Spyros Pournaras, Attikon University Hospital (UA), Greece