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

The ENIGMA network will train a new generation of young researchers in the development of innovative sensors, field survey techniques and inverse modelling approaches. This will enhance our ability to understand and monitor dynamic subsurface processes that are key to the protection and sustainable use of water resources. ENIGMA focuses mainly on critical zone observation, but the anticipated technological developments and scientific findings will also contribute to monitor and model the environmental footprint of an increasing range of subsurface activities, including large-scale water abstraction and storage, enhanced geothermal systems and subsurface waste and carbon storage. While many subsurface structure imaging methods are now mature and broadly used in research and practice, our ability to resolve and monitor subsurface fluxes and processes, including solute transport, heat transfer and biochemical reactions, is much more limited. The shift from classical structure characterization to dynamic process imaging, driven by ENIGMA, will require the development of multi-scale hydrogeophysical methods with adequate sensitivity, spatial and temporal resolution, and novel inverse modelling concepts. For this, ENIGMA will gather (i) world-leading academic teams and emerging companies that develop innovative sensors and hydrogeophysical inversion methods, (ii) experts in subsurface process upscaling and modelling, and (iii) highly instrumented field infrastructures for in-situ experimentation and validation. ENIGMA will thus create a creative and entrepreneurial environment for trainees to develop integrated approaches to water management with interdisciplinary field-sensing methods and novel modelling techniques. ENIGMA will foster EU and international cooperation in the water area by creating new links between hydrogeological observatories, academic research groups, innovative industries and water managers for high-level scientific and professional training.

Mots clés : hydrogeophysics, innovative sensors, in situ monitoring, subsurface hydrology, reactive transport, joint inversion of multiple datasets, predictive modeling, uncertainty assessment

Participants :
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 498432.96 €
- University of Liège (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 501120.0 €
- Université de Montpellier (France) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Tübingen (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 249216.48 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 495745.92 €
- Smart hydrogeological solutions srl (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Neuchâtel (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265226.76 €
- Exail (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 154293.37 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 525751.2 €
- Oregon University System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Stanford University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 249216.48 €
- University of Lausanne (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265226.76 €
- Aquale sprl (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Itasca consultants (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 262875.6 €
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 290081.88 €
- Geotechnik heiligenstadt gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Agencia Catalana de L'Aigua (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Autofuel aps (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Montpellier (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 108582.23 €
- Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (France) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Silixa ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €