Projet GeoRes (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

GeoRes aims to expand the scope of the involved teams’ research in addressing some of the outstanding challenges in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering: developing innovative solutions for the reuse of waste geomaterials generated by construction and mining industries across Europe. Geomaterial waste represents half of the waste volume generated in EU-27. These waste geomaterials generally exhibit poor engineering characteristics that prevent their direct reuse on construction/mining sites. However, if adequately treated, they could represent an excellent resource for construction purposes with significant money saving and reduction in the environmental footprint, thus contributing to the establishment of a circular economy. To achieve this, GeoRes will develop protocols, software and tools to improve the engineering characteristics of waste geomaterials, and to guarantee the level of performance over the service life of geostructures built from waste geomaterials considering site-specific conditions. The fundamental concern of the research in the GeoRes network is thus to develop strategies and tools for sustainable reuse of waste geomaterials generated by geoengineering activities, and to determine how to turn a waste geomaterial into a valued durable material, with a positive revenue stream. The proposed network is at the interface of two domains of engineering; geotechnical and geoenvironmental. Even today, it is not easy to find researchers with expertise in both geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. We intend to form a multidisciplinary and intersectoral consortium composed of 8 academic and 6 industrial beneficiaries and 6 Third Country partners which aim to address this problem. GeoRes will create a multidisciplinary and intersectoral network of creative and innovative researchers and practising engineers ready to face geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering challenges which arise in the vanguard of technological innovation.

Mots clés : performance durability, improvement, stabilisation, soils, sediments, tailings, mechanical and, transfer properties, infrastructure

Participants :
- Ecoloop (Sweden) (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 9000.0 €
- University of Exeter (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274500.0 €
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brésil) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Synopsys (northern europe) limited (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 13500.0 €
- University of Naples Federico II (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 81000.0 €
- Ginger cebtp (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 18000.0 €
- Horizon consulting engineers limited (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 58500.0 €
- Terre leggere srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Ramboll sverige ab (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 22500.0 €
- Polytechnique Montréal (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Grønlands Naturinstitut (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 9000.0 €
- Luleå University of Technology (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 85500.0 €
- Fundación Universitaria del Espinal (Colombie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 27000.0 €
- Université de Lorraine (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274500.0 €
- Monash University (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Deneshgah e elm sanaat e iran (Iran) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Geological Survey of Finland (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 13500.0 €
- Zhongguo kexueyuan wuhan yantu lixue yanjiusuo (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €