Projet NaToxAq (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Clean drinking water is crucial to human health and wellbeing. The ambition of the NaToxAq ETN network is to expand the research basis for EU’s leading role in securing high quality drinking waters for its citizens. Focus is on natural toxins – a large group of emerging contaminants with unknown impact on drinking water resources. Both known toxins, like cyanotoxins, cyanogenic glucosides and terpenes and not yet explored toxins will be investigated. Twenty leading universities, research institutions, and water enterprises will pioneer the field through joint training of 15 ESRs investigating natural toxin emission via water reservoirs to water works and consumers. The natural toxin challenge is addressed by the concerted work of the ESRs within 4 scientific work packages comprising origin, distribution, fate and remediation. Priority toxins are selected using in silico approaches accompanied by novel non-targeted and targeted analyses to map natural toxins along vegetation and climatic gradients in Europe. Invasion of alien species, toxin emission, leaching and dissipation will be under strong influence of climate change. Data collected for toxin emission, properties and fate will be used to model effects of climate, land use, and design of remediation actions. Special attention will be paid to toxin removal at water works including development of new technologies tailored to remove natural toxins. The results will contribute to strengthening of European policies and regulation of drinking water, while new business opportunities within the fields of water supply and treatment, chemical monitoring and sensing, and the consulting sector will arise from academia-indstry collaborations. The urgency of the challenge, its eminent knowledge gaps, its multifaceted and multidisciplinary nature, and the need for scientific and public awareness to be communicated by ESRs in a balanced way makes the topic ideal for a European mobility and training network.

Mots clés : natural toxins, drinking water, water supply, water treatment, emerging contaminants, hydrological modelling, exposure modelling, environmental fate studies, risk assessment

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 870245.64 €
- Aigues de barcelona, empresa metropolitana de gestio del cicle integral de l'aigua sa (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Leibniz Association (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 495745.92 €
- St. galler stadtwerke (Suisse) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Federal Department of Economic Affairs Education and Research (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 265226.76 €
- Government of the United States of America (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Barcelona (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Stockholm University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 263659.32 €
- University of York (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Hofor as (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 290081.88 €
- Agilent Technologies (Switzerland) (Suisse) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 265226.76 €
- Masaryk University (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 464844.96 €
- University College Copenhagen (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 290081.88 €
- Veolia (Denmark) (Danemark) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Vandcenter syd as (Danemark) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fera Science (United Kingdom) (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 273287.88 €
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 498432.96 €
- Kelda Group (United Kingdom) (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €